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Local Residents Submissions to the Bromsgrove District Council Electoral Review Local residents submissions to the Bromsgrove District Council electoral review. This PDF document contains 21 submissions from local residents – surnames L-Z. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Click on the submission you would like to view. If you are not taken to that page, please scroll through the document. Grange Cottage, Birmingham Road, Hopwood, Birmingham B48 7AJ e-mail: [email protected] 5th April 2013 Review Officer Bromsgrove Review The Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House 76 – 86 Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Dear Sirs Electoral Review of Bromsgrove, Further Limited Consultation I would like to take the opportunity to provide a relatively objective comment to the proposals contained in your further limited consultation, as someone who only works within the Woodvale area rather than as a resident. Initially I worked as the Clerk to Catshill and North Marlbrook Parish Council for a few years before also taking on the role of Clerk to Bournheath Parish Council. The two parishes share a common boundary, the M5 motorway, and when I took the job at Bournheath I thought the issues that are important to Catshill residents would be the same for Bournheath. I soon found out that this is not the case. The parish of Catshill and North Marlbrook, whilst initially rural is now essentially urban with much of the parish being excluded from the Green Belt. The parish of Bournheath is not excluded from the Green Belt and remains essentially rural as evidenced by its narrow roads and attendant infrastructure problems. I would invite you to travel with me when I drive from one parish to the other – travelling from Catshill to Bournheath is almost like stepping through the back of C S Lewis’ wardrobe and entering into Narnia! The two communities look so different; they feel, smell and sound different. Not worse or better – just different. On taking up the clerkship at Bournheath I also encountered the wider community of Woodvale. Despite Catshill’s close proximity to these parishes it was not until I started work for Bournheath that I ever met up with the clerks at the neighbouring parishes of Dodford with Grafton and Belbroughton. The reasons for now meeting with them are due to the shared rural community that is Woodvale. Catshill and North Marlbrook Parish Council has always seemed to look east for its relationships, ie towards Marlbrook, Lickey and Barnt Green where there is more common ground and shared purpose. From my point of view it seems odd to now propose that Catshill looks west so as to incorporate Bournheath parish, especially as one of LGBCE’s three main considerations is to reflect community identity. The revised proposal definitely fails in this respect. There are all sorts of rumours about there being another, more politically motivated, purpose behind this review. For instance due to the pressure to find space for housing development and with the majority of Bromsgrove district being sited in the Green Belt the division and destabilisation of existing rural communities such as Woodvale may be a sneaky but legitimate way forward to ease the re-drawing of the Green Belt boundary. Nor is the attitude of the District Council’s current Leader towards the district’s parish councils helpful, having been reported in the local paper recently declaring all parish councils ‘a waste of money’. This is unfortunately an attitude that serves only to further alienate district and parish members and residents. Whatever the rumours or political attitudes, I would trust that LGBCE will rely on its own proven criteria when carrying out its review and will make its decisions independently without fear or favour based on the democratic principles of honesty, integrity, trust, openness and probity. By the way, I meant it when I invited you to travel with me between the two parishes. I can’t promise we shall meet lions and witches, but I can definitely show you two different worlds! Yours faithfully Gill Lungley Morrison, William From: Alan Mabbett <[email protected]> Sent: 02 April 2013 21:37 To: Reviews@; Morrison, William; Gall, Archie Subject: Boundary Commission Review - Woodvale Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed Dear Sirs, I am writing to register my strong opposition to the current proposals made by the Boundary Commission to not only dissolve the Woodvale Ward but to link Fairfield with Romsley. This proposal totally lacks any sort of credibility or acceptable rationale other than the execution of a “numbers” game. I am assuming that the proponents of this current proposal have no idea at all about the communities involved i.e. their geography and socio‐economic composition. I have been a resident in Fairfield for over 20 years and before that I lived in Bournheath for a similar period of time. I am perfectly happy with the Woodvale Ward – I have no complaints at all with its composition and representation on the District and County Council. I do not accept the necessity for such change. If some adjustment is required on the grounds of “numbers” then the natural thing to do would be to consider allocating the satellite areas of Bellbroughton to the Woodvale Ward. There would be commonality in the communities involved in such a move as they are represented by the same Parish Council. My understanding of the basis for any such recommendation is the maintenance of the fundamental principle of “the need to reflect the identities and interest of local communities …” Schedule 2 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. Clearly, this is being totally ignored with the proposed ‘carving‐up’ of Woodvale. It is a coherent and homogeneous group of communities and will not benefit in any shape of form by being split‐up and joined with dispirit adjacent communities of Catshill, Perryfields or Romsley. There are very strong links between the semi‐rural communities of Dodford, Bournheath and Fairfield and have been for a very long time. There is common usage of Churches, Schools, Shops, Recreation amenities and various social gatherings in the respective Village Halls. The three Parish Councils maintain links between themselves and there is a similar cooperation with other local clubs and societies. The District and County Councillors are familiar with the local issues of the Woodvale communities as well as those of neighbouring Bellbroughton and its surrounds. I am not aware of the existence of anything approaching such strong linkages with Romsley. It is both geographically and socially distinct from the communities of Fairfield and the rest of Woodvale. There is nothing shared, no commonality or indeed mutual interest. Two entirely separate and very distinct communities. This would be not only an arrange marriage but a marriage which has been forced onto the communities. I urge you to reconsider your proposals to dissolve Woodvale and to join Fairfield with Romsley, and to have regard not only to the rural communities affected but to adhere to your obligations under Schedule 2 of the 2009 Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act. Yours sincerely Dr. A. Mabbett 1 Morrison, William From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 08 April 2013 09:06 To: Morrison, William Subject: FW: Bromsgrove Boundary Review - Bell Heath revised proposal + Fairfield Parish Ward proposal Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed From: Scott MacDonald [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 April 2013 13:48 To: Reviews@ Subject: Bromsgrove Boundary Review - Bell Heath revised proposal + Fairfield Parish Ward proposal Dear Sir or Madam, I am writing to thank the Commission for taking the time to study the feedback that was submitted regarding the Bell Heath area in the earlier phase of the BDC Ward review. The revised proposal for which you have requested feedback is the correct result for Bell Heath ie it remaining within the Belbroughton and Clent District Ward and avoiding the need for a separate new ward within Belbroughton Parish Council. I still feel strongly about the need to balance parish councillor numbers across Belbroughton Parish Council but I understand that this is outside your remit if you are not actually proposing new wards with the Parish Council structure. I am a Parish Councillor on Belbroughton Parish Council with the Belbroughton Ward but this correspondence is sent in a personal capacity and is not meant to represent the views of the PC or other councillors or residents. I fully endorse your revised plan to retain Bell Heath within the Belbroughton and Clent District Ward. I absolutely do not wish you to revise this decision. I understand that the parish councillors who represent the Fairfield Ward within Belbroughton Parish Council are objecting to one consequence of your rethink on Bell Heath ie the allocating of Fairfield Parish Ward into Romsley District Ward to share one district councillor with Romsley. Part of their objection is that the Fairfield councillors work well with their counterparts on Bourneheath and Dodford PC's which may be the case but it is not really relevant to the issue of District Wards and I struggle to understand how being in a different District Ward would affect this relationship with these PCs. It is also suggested that residents in Fairfield have little in common with those in Romsley. There may well be limited interaction between the communities via schooling, pubs, shops, etc but Romsley is a large rural community with a main village focal point and Fairfield is the same set up. This is a point that has been made repeatedly by Fairfield parish councillors over the past 2 years on my time on the PC because the Fairfield councillors use it to illustrate how different and distinct their community is to that of Belbroughton.
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