Full Council – 19 September 2019 Item 22 – Community Governance Review – Update on Stage 2 Stage 2 of the Community Governance Review process has commenced and involves Cornwall Council agreeing draft recommendations for public consultations. This stage is currently envisaged to conclude in December 2019, with a public consultation taking place between then and March 2020. In terms of Bodmin Town Council and the Bodmin Community Network Area, there were no submissions by town and parishes in this Network Area calling for changes. ➢ Blisland – no submission received; ➢ Bodmin – no submission received; ➢ Cardinham – no submission received; ➢ Helland – no submission received; ➢ Lanhydrock Parish Council – no change submission received but sets out its strong sense of its own identity; ➢ Lanivet – no submission received; ➢ Withiel – no change submission received but set out Withiel did not see the need for a governance review at this time and confirmed their position as qualifying as a parish council without the need to be amalgamated. Lanhydrock Parish Council submitted a more detailed response compared to others in its call for no change and outlined its strong and deep sense of its own identity requesting that the traditional governance arrangements remain unchanged. Parish and Town Councils where changes have been requested or are being put forward as options have been asked to make responses to Cornwall Council by 4 October 2019 via the
[email protected] e-mail address. Summaries of all submissions across the county have been broken down into packs for each Community Network Area and are published on the Cornwall Council website. The Electoral Review Panel will be holding 10 public engagement meetings across Cornwall in September and early October 2019 to hear views about these submissions, particularly where boundary or significant change is proposed.