June 2018 Summary Report The full report and detailed maps: consultation.lgbce.org.uk www.lgbce.org.uk @LGBCE
Have your say: We are now consulting local people on a new pattern of divisions for Cornwall Council. The Commission has an open mind about its final recommendations and will consider every pieceofevidenceit receives from local groups Cornwall Council and people, regardless of whom it is from or whether it relates to the whole council area or a part of it. Draft recommendations on the new electoral arrangements If you agree with our recommendations, please let us know. If you don’t think our recommendations are right for Cornwall, we want to hear alternative proposals for a different pattern of divisions.
The Commission aims to propose a pattern of divisions for Cornwall Council which delivers:
■ Electoral equality: each councillor represents a similar number of voters. ■ Community identity: reflects the identity and interests of local communities. ■ Effective and convenient local government: helping your council discharge its responsibilities effectively.
A good pattern of divisions should: ■ Facilities: does your pattern of divisions reflect where local people go for shops, medical ■ Provide good electoral equality, with each services, leisure facilities etc? councillor representing, as closely as possible, ■ Interests: what issues bind the community the same number of voters. together or separate it from other parts of your ■ Reflect community interests and identities and area? include evidence of community links. ■ Identifiable boundaries: are there natural or ■ Be based on strong, easily identifiable constructed features which make strong boundaries. boundaries for your proposals? ■ Help the council deliver effective and convenient local government. Effective local government:
Electoral equality: ■ Are any of the proposed divisions too large or small to be represented effectively? ■ Are the proposed names of the divisions Who we are: Why Cornwall ? ■ Does your proposal mean that councillors ■ The Local Government Boundary Commission for ■ Cornwall Council submitted a formal request to the appropriate? would represent roughly the same number of England is an independent body set up by Parliament. Commission for an electoral review voters as elsewhere in the council area? Useful tips: ■ We are not part of government or any political party. Community identity: ■ We are accountable to Parliament through a ■ Our website has a special consultation area committee of MPs chaired by the Speaker of the House where you can explore the maps and draw your of Commons. Electoral review: ■ Transport links: are there good links across An electoral review examines and proposes new own proposed boundaries. You can find it at ■ Our main role is to carry out electoral reviews of local your proposed division? Is there any form of electoral arrangements for a local authority, including: consultation.lgbce.org.uk. authorities throughout England. public transport? ■ The total number of councillors representing the ■ Community groups: is there a parish council, ■ We publish all submissions we receive on our council’s voters (‘council size’). residents association or another group that website. Go to: www.lgbce.org.uk Our proposals: represents the area? ■ Cornwall currently has 123 councillors. ■ The names, number and boundaries of wards or ■ We propose that the council should have 87 electoral divisions. Write to: Our consultation area: in future, representing 87 single-councillor ■ The number of councillors for each ward or division. Review Officer (Cornwall) consultation.lgbce.org.uk councillors divisions across the council area. LGBCE Email: 14th floor, Millbank Tower [email protected] You haveuntil 17 September 2018 to Twitter: London haveyour sayon the recommendations SW1P 4QP @LGBCE Summary of our recommendations We have considered all the representations received in response to our request for division proposals. Overview of draft
Our draft recommendations propose that Cornwall Council should have 87 councillors recommendations for in future. This is 36 fewer than the current number of councillors. Cornwall Council Those councillors should represent 87 single-councillor divisions across the council area. View this map online and draw your own The boundaries of all divisions should change, none will boundaries: consultation.lgbce.org.uk stay the same. Follow the review on Twitter: @LGBCE An outline of the proposals is shown in the map to the right. A detailed report on the recommendations and If you are viewing this page online, click on the interactive mapping is available on our website at: map to go straight to our interactive www.lgbce.org.uk. consultation area. The Commission welcomes comments on these draft recommendations, whether you support the proposals or wish to put forward alternative arrangements.
In particular, the Commission welcomes proposals for alternative boundaries or division names which meet the criteria we must follow as part of electoral reviews and which are described in more detail over the page.
Haveyour say at consultation.lgbce.org.uk:
■ view the map of our recommendations down to street level. ■ draw your own boundaries online. ■ zoom into the areas that interest you most. ■ find more guidance on how to have your say. ■ read the full report of our recommendations. ■ send us your views directly.
Stage of Description review
13 June 2017 - 7 Public consultation on councillor August 2017 numbers
26 September 2017 - Public consultation on new 19 February 2018 division boundaries
5 June 2018 - 17 Public consultation on draft September 2018 recommendations
4 December 2018 Publication of final recommendations Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Subject to parliamentary copyright and approval - implementation of database rights 2018 May 2021 new arrangements at local elections