Boundary Review of West County Council

Draft proposals for : July 2015

Horsham District Proposal:

Divisions affected:

(a) Loses part of the Parish of Shipley (Polling Districts PN and PQE)

(b) & (rename to Southwater & Shipley) Gains part of the Parish of Shipley (Polling Districts PN and PQE) Loses part of the parish of Nuthurst and the parish of (Polling districts PA and NM)

(c) & (rename to Broadbridge) Gains (Polling Districts NGA and NGB) Loses Rusper and Colgate (polling districts PL, NZ, NSA, NSB, NSC, NSD and NJ)

(d) Roffey (rename to Horsham East) Gains parts of Roffey South (polling districts NVB and NVC) and part of Forest (polling district NRA) Loses part of Roffey South (polling district NVA) to St Leonard’s Forest Loses 19 houses on Station Road to Horsham Hurst

(e) Horsham Riverside Gains Denne (polling districts NN and NO). Loses part of Roffey South (polling districts NVB and NVC) and part of Forest (polling district NRA). Loses part of polling district PJ.

(f) Horsham Hurst Gains part (672 electors in April 2015) of PJ Horsham Park 3 (Millais school area) from Riverside Gains 19 houses on Station Road from Roffey.

(g) Horsham Tanbridge & Broadbridge Heath – DIVISION REMOVED

(i) St Leonard’s Forest – NEW DIVISION to comprise: NVA Roffey S from Roffey, NM Crabtree (Lower Beeding area), PA from Southwater, NSA, NSB, NSC 1,2 & 3 , NJ Colgate, NZ Ifield & PL Rusper from Warnham

(j) Divisions unchanged: Castle, , Holbrook, and .

Key Considerations:

 This proposal has two small divisions in 2015 (Broadbridge and St Leonards Forest) and one over 10% (Storrington). However, they all come into the band by 2021 giving a 2021 proposal with nothing outside the 10% band.  This has been, by far, the most difficult district to come up with coherent proposals and it involves more transfers than in any other district. It involves changes in the boundaries of the three town divisions (Riverside, Hurst, Roffey) and the loss of an urban area (Leechpool) to a largely rural St Leonards Forest. The large development at was the biggest distorting problem. The new St Leonards Forest division will necessarily be a large urban/rural area with the built-up area of Leechpool at one end and the new Kilnwood Vale at the other. In between is a pretty sparse rural area. St. Leonards Forest will have the smallest electorate in 2015 by far, but the significant building already underway in Kilnwood Vale will bring it up to a much more equitable position by 2021.