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Colnbrook with Poyle Parish Council Submission to Local Government Boundary Commission for England Colnbrook with Poyle Parish Council Submission to Local Government Boundary Commission for England Slough Borough Council – Colnbrook with Poyle Ward. Background. The Local Government Boundary Commission is a body set up by Parliament during April 2010, being independent of Government, Political Parties and Local Authorities. They report back to Parliament through the Speaker’s Committee and their role, in this instance, is to review local authority electoral arrangements and administrative boundaries to ensure that each elected councillor represents approximately the same the same number of electors, though this number varies from borough to borough and is just a straight division of the projected borough electorate by the projected number of councillors in the borough. In the case of Slough, the borough has advised that a working assumption be made that the number of councillors will increase by one from 41 to 42, (an increase of 2% when the electorate has increased by more than 10%), generating a target of each councillor representing 2266 electors. The borough of Slough has been triggered as a borough requiring Electoral Review due to 42% of Slough’s wards have an electoral variance of representation of more than +/‐ 10%. There are 3 wards where the variance is between ‐10% and ‐20%, Langley St. Mary’s ‐15%; Foxborough ‐16% and Colnbrook with Poyle ‐15%. Another 3 wards have a variance of between +10% and +20%, Baylis & Stoke +15%; Central +20% and Cippenham Meadows +12%. The remaining 8 wards are within the allowance of deviation. A consultation process is in operation and we have to respond back to the Commission by October 4th 2011 for our representation to taken into consideration. Response Colnbrook with Poyle is one of the wards where a boundary change is required to address the variance of representation to a level acceptable. This may result in our ward being combined with part of our neighbouring ward of Foxborough. This may appear to be a logical solution in order to balance the numbers, which have to demonstrate an element of future protection to ensure that population changes do not result in ‘slippage’ over the forthcoming 5 years. The Parish Council consider that the ward of Colnbrook with Poyle, although being the only ward in the borough with two elected representatives, has a very strong case to argue in remaining unchanged. 1. The semi‐rural make‐up of the ward is unique compared to the rest of the borough of Slough, which is highly urbanised. The ward has the largest land mass of any Slough ward and contains the majority of the remaining Metropolitan Green Belt of the borough. Also, the entire area of the Colne Valley Regional Park that falls within the Borough of Slough is contained within our ward. These factors give us the least synergistic fit of any Slough ward or commonality with the other wards in the borough. 2. We have very well defined physical boundary demarcations. To the north, the M4 motorway divides us from Foxborough and the rest of Slough. To the east, the M25 motorway separates us from Greater London. To the south the remaining boundary which completes the triangular layout of the ward, is largely open land and reservoirs which run from the south to the west, separating us from our neighbouring borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. These very fixed structures and physical features would make it difficult for any neighbouring area to be attached to our ward without leading to a marginalisation of the community being added . 3. Colnbrook and Poyle ward boasts 35 listed buildings whilst all 14 wards of Slough have collectively 109, giving our ward 32% of all Heritage Listed sites in the borough. This fact reinforces the particular and exclusive historic identity that the ward enjoys, separating it again from our neighbouring wards in Slough. Colnbrook was the first coaching village stop on the route from London to Bath and Bristol. We have a number of historic coaching inns, including the third oldest pub in England; our village twice received Borough status by Royal Charter. 4. Our community has a strong sense of identity, albeit we do have part of our ward divided by the main A4 and from time to time this does give rise to residents on the Westfield estate feeling isolated from the main body of the community. The existence of a Parished area which mirrors our existing boundaries helps bind Westfield to the rest of the ward. However, any addition to the ward from the west, and extending north of the M4 motorway, would exacerbate the situation and lead to less community cohesion and harmony rather than extending and enhancing it. Having highlighted the foregoing statements of fact it is demonstrated that perhaps the best solution is to leave the ward of Colnbrook and Poyle as it is. This is undoubtedly our preferred recommendation to the Local Government Boundary Commission – that the existing boundaries of the Colnbrook with Poyle ward should be kept unaltered. The Parish Council recognises that this is not consistent with the new target of 2266 electors per councillor in Slough Borough but notes that this target number would reduce if the number of councillors allocated to the borough were to increase further – the proposed increase of one extra councillor from 41 to 42 represents a 2% increase while the electorate is actually increasing by more than 10%, which does not seem an equitable allocation. Alternatively, the best matched area for us to be part of is within the borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, who we share a boundary with. The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, has a number of wards that are two‐member wards, where our ward would be more typical of other wards both in terms of geographical layout and the mixture of rural and developed land encompassed. We have a great deal in common with the semi‐rural neighbouring villages of Horton, Wraysbury and Datchet, all in the Royal Borough, and all, incidentally, with proportionately large traveller communities amongst our populations. We even share the same Member for Parliament, being in the Parliamentary Constituency of Windsor. Indeed, Colnbrook with Poyle is presently the only Slough ward not to be represented by the Slough M.P. in Parliament. .
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