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Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Epsom & Ewell in Surrey LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FUTURE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR EPSOM & EWELL IN SURREY Report to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions September 1998 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND This report sets out the Commission’s final recommendations on the electoral arrangements for Epsom & Ewell in Surrey. Members of the Commission are: Professor Malcolm Grant (Chairman) Helena Shovelton (Deputy Chairman) Peter Brokenshire Professor Michael Clarke Pamela Gordon Robin Gray Robert Hughes Barbara Stephens (Chief Executive) ©Crown Copyright 1998 Applications for reproduction should be made to: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Copyright Unit The mapping in this report is reproduced from OS mapping by The Local Government Commission for England with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number: GD 03114G. This report is printed on recycled paper. ii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND CONTENTS page LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE v SUMMARY vii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 CURRENT ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS 3 3 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS 7 4 RESPONSES TO CONSULTATION 9 5 ANALYSIS AND FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS 11 6 NEXT STEPS 23 APPENDICES A Final Recommendations for Epsom & Ewell: Detailed Mapping 25 B Draft Recommendations for Epsom & Ewell (March 1998) 27 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND iii iv LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Local Government Commission for England 1 September 1998 Dear Secretary of State On 2 September 1997 the Commission began a periodic electoral review of the borough of Epsom & Ewell under the Local Government Act 1992. We published our draft recommendations for electoral arrangements on 17 March 1998 and undertook an eleven-week period of consultation. We have now prepared our final recommendations in the light of the consultation. We have substantially confirmed our draft recommendations, although some modifications have been made (see paragraph 87) in the light of further evidence. This report sets out our final recommendations for changes to electoral arrangements in Epsom & Ewell Borough. We recommend that Epsom & Ewell Borough Council should be served by 38 councillors representing 13 wards, and that some changes should be made to ward boundaries in order to improve electoral equality, having regard to the statutory criteria. We recommend that elections should continue to take place every four years. I would like to thank members and officers of the Borough Council and other local people who have contributed to the review. Their co-operation and assistance have been very much appreciated by Commissioners and staff. Yours sincerely PROFESSOR MALCOLM GRANT Chairman LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND v vi LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND SUMMARY The Commission began a review of Epsom & ● In all 13 wards, the number of electors per Ewell on 2 September 1997. We published our councillor would vary by no more than 10 draft recommendations for electoral arrangements per cent from the borough average. on 17 March 1998, after which we undertook an ● This improved level of electoral equality is 11 week period of consultation. forecast to continue, with the number of electors per councillor in 12 of the 13 wards ● This report summarises the representations expected to vary by no more than 10 per cent we have received during consultation on our from the average for the borough by 2002. draft recommendations, and offers our final recommendations to the Secretary of State. All further correspondence on these We found that the existing electoral arrangements recommendations and the matters discussed provide unequal representation of electors in in this report should be addressed to the Epsom & Ewell because: Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, who will ● in five of the 13 wards, the number of not make an Order implementing the electors represented by each councillor varies Commission’s recommendations before by more than 10 per cent from the average 13 October 1998: for the borough; ● by 2002, electoral equality is not expected to The Secretary of State improve, with the number of electors per Department of the Environment, councillor projected to vary by more than 10 Transport and the Regions per cent from the average in five wards, and Local Government Review by more than 20 per cent from the average Eland House in one ward. Bressenden Place London SW1E 5DU Our main final recommendations for future electoral arrangements (Figure 1 and paragraphs 86 to 87) are that: ● Epsom & Ewell Borough Council should be served by 38 councillors, one fewer than at present; ● there should continue to be 13 wards; ● the boundaries of 12 wards should be modified, while one ward should retain its existing boundaries; ● elections should continue to take place every four years. These recommendations seek to ensure that the number of electors represented by each borough councillor is as nearly as possible the same, having regard to local circumstances. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND vii Figure 1: The Commission’s Final Recommendations: Summary Ward name Number of Constituent areas councillors 1 Auriol 2 Auriol ward (part) 2 College 3 College ward (part) 3 Court 3 Court ward (part); West Ewell ward (part) 4 Cuddington 3 Unchanged 5 Ewell 3 Ewell ward (part); Town ward (part) 6 Ewell Court 3 Ewell Court ward; Auriol ward (part) 7 Nonsuch 3 Nonsuch ward (part); Ewell ward (part) 8 Ruxley 3 Ruxley ward; Court ward (part) 9 Stamford 3 Stamford ward; Woodcote ward (part) 10 Stoneleigh 3 Stoneleigh ward; Nonsuch ward (part); Ewell ward (part) 11 Town 3 Town ward (part); College ward (part) 12 West Ewell 3 West Ewell ward (part); Court ward (part) 13 Woodcote 3 Woodcote ward (part); Town ward (part); College ward (part) Notes: 1 Epsom & Ewell Borough is entirely unparished. 2 The proposed ward boundaries are illustrated in the large map at the back of the report. viii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND 1. INTRODUCTION 1 This report contains our final recommendations on the electoral arrangements for the borough of Epsom & Ewell in Surrey. 2 In undertaking these reviews, we have had regard to: ● the statutory criteria in section 13(5) of the Local Government Act 1992; and ● the Rules to be Observed in Considering Electoral Arrangements in Schedule 11 to the Local Government Act 1972. 3 We have also had regard to our Guidance and Procedural Advice for Local Authorities and Other Interested Parties (published in March 1996, supplemented in September 1996 and updated in March 1998). This sets out our approach to the reviews. 4 This review was in four stages. Stage One began on 2 September 1997, when we invited proposals for the future electoral arrangements from Epsom & Ewell Borough Council, and copied the letter to Surrey County Council, the Metropolitan Police, the local authority associations, the Surrey Association of Parish Councils, the Member of Parliament and the Member of the European Parliament with constituency interests in the borough, and the headquarters of the main political parties. At the start of the review and following publication of our draft recommendations we published a notice in the local press, issued a press release and invited the Borough Council to publicise the review more widely. The closing date for receipt of representations was 25 November 1997. At Stage Two, we considered all the representations received during Stage One and prepared our draft recommendations. 5 Stage Three began on 17 March 1998 with the publication of our report, Draft Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Epsom & Ewell in Surrey, and ended on 1 June 1998. Comments were sought on our preliminary conclusions. Finally, during Stage Four we reconsidered our draft recommendations in the light of the Stage Three consultation and now publish our final recommendations. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND 1 2 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND 2. CURRENT ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS 6 Epsom & Ewell is a compact borough in north 9 Since the last electoral review was completed in Surrey, covering an area of some 3,400 hectares to 1975, changes in population and electorate have the south-west of London. Historically, the two not been evenly spread across the borough. As a settlements of Epsom and Ewell developed result, the number of electors per councillor varies independently, but suburban growth, particularly by more than 10 per cent from the borough in the inter-war years, has resulted in their merging average in five of the 13 wards. The highest into one predominantly residential area in the electoral variance is in Nonsuch ward, which has centre of the borough. The residential area some 15 per cent fewer electors per councillor than continues in the north of the borough, stretching the borough average. In other words, the to the adjacent London boroughs of Kingston- councillor for Nonsuch ward represents 1,113 upon-Thames and Sutton. Green Belt, stretching electors, compared to the borough average of across the North Downs, makes up the southern 1,315. half of the borough. The borough is served by a number of important communication links, including the A240 trunk road and the Epsom to London Waterloo railway line. The borough has no parishes, but has a network of residents’ associations covering much of its area. 7 To compare levels of electoral inequality between wards we calculated the extent to which the number of electors per councillor in each ward (the councillor:elector ratio) varies from the borough average in percentage terms. In the text which follows this calculation may also be described using the shorthand term ‘electoral variance’. 8 The current electoral arrangements in the borough provide for 39 councillors, serving 13 wards (Map 1 and Figure 2) each represented by three councillors.
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