Councillor ANITA LOWER Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group Newcastle City Council Opposition Office Room 136, Civic Centre Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8QH Phone: The Review Officer (Newcastle upon Tyne) E-mail: The Local Government Boundary Commission www.newcastle.gov.uk For England 14th Floor Millbank Tower 21-24 Millbank London SW1P 4QP Email:
[email protected] BY POST AND EMAIL 19th August 2016 Our reference: AL/LH Dear Sir, Alternative submission for Castle, Cheviot View and Callerton and Throckley wards. Following on from Newcastle City Council’s approval of the draft warding recommendations I would like to submit an alternative option in respect of the above 3 wards. One of the major objections to the new warding pattern was the subdivision of the Kingston Park Neighbourhood Forum area between wards. I will not cover those again as I have attached my previous letter at appendix 1. The overview is as follows:- (The following descriptions are of the areas in each ward – I am not suggesting these would be the proposed names). See map in Appendix 2. Ward A - revised Castle ward, including Dinnington, Hazelrigg and Brunswick villages, Great Park and Woolsington village. Approx. 8029 electors (variance -4%) Ward B – ward including Kingston Park and Newbiggin Hall Estate. Approx. 8881 electors (variance +6.5%) Ward C - revised Callerton and Throckley ward, now excluding Woolsington village and including the area west of Newbiggin Hall Estate (called Bedeburn ward in Woolsington parish). Approx. 8940 (variance (+7%). The boundary between Ward B and C uses the existing parish ward boundary in Woolsington between polling districts ZEN and ZCN (see map Appendix 2).