Local resident’s submissions to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Pr9hvq A ) Tr) Mishka Mayers Review Assistant LGBCE 0330 500 1251 From: Karon Alderman Sent: 18 August 2016 11:37 To: reviews <[email protected]> Subject: Newcastle ward boundary changes Dear Boundary Commission I believe that the Benton Lodge Estate, where I live, is very much part of the Dene community and should stay part of Dene Ward. Please reverse the decision on the Dene adn Manor Park ward boundariues decision and choose Newcastle Council’s Option 1 for area C as this is more in line with our communities and services. Thank you, Karon Alderman 1 ‐‐ Jonathan Ashby Review Assistant LGBCE From: Sent: 19 August 2016 13:07 To: reviews <[email protected]> Subject: Draft recommendations for Newcastle City Council Good Morning, I have attached an extract from your document concerning the above issue which is a little confusing - apologies if you are already aware of this.. As I reside in North Walbottle I have always thought that we have little in common with the existing Newburn ward and fully support the creation of a new Chapel ward and North Walbottle's inclusion within it. However, on reading the document, there is an apparent contradiction (which I assume is a simple slip of the pen/keyboard) - I have highlighted the error in yellow, and which should read simply Walbottle and not North Walbottle? Thank you. Philip Archbold Western districts Ward name Number of Cllrs Variance 2021 Description Detail Callerton & Throckley 3 -1% This ward is bounded by ............. We note that the Council proposed that a site designated for housing at North Walbottle be included in this ward. We consider that site to be more appropriately included in Chapel ward, along with existing housing at North Walbottle. This provides the opportunity to include Walbottle village in Callerton & Throckley ward.............................. Lemington 3 -9% This ward comprises the area bounded by the A69 to the north, the A1 to the east and River Tyne to the south. The ward includes Blucher village to the west. We received one submission specifically relating to this ward arguing that it should not include Walbottle village. Our 1 draft recommendation that land at North Walbottle Road be included in Chapel ward enables North Walbottle to be included in Callerton & Throckley ward. 2 Newcastle upon Tyne District Personal Details: Name: Tim Boyers E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: It seems strange that properties on Richardson Road and Castle Leazes fall into Arthurs Hill when to the immediate north and west they are in East Fenham. They should be brought into the same as all of Spital Tongues in East Fenham. People in Spital Tongues do not identify with Fenham or Arthurs Hill as it is far more connected to the University and RVI area of the city centre. It should form a separate area called the University Quarter. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded 6/29/2016 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal New castle upon Tyne District P ersonal Details: Nam e: Ross Donnelly E-m ail: P ostcode: Organisation Nam e: Feature Annotations 33:: CCommunityommunity centrecentre andand playingplaying ffieldsields 22:: EEntrancentrance ttoo ourour estateestate 44:: EEntrancentrance toto CChapelhapel PaPa rkrk Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. M ap Features: Annotation 2: Entrance to our estate Annotation 3: Community centre and playing fields Annotation 4: Entrance to Chapel Park Comment text: We strongly identify with the Chapel Park area, . We also feel connected to the playing fields and community centre literally across the road from us. These new boundaries would separate us from these important aspects of our neighbourhood. Finally, there are thousands of houses earmarked to be built in the surrounding fields over the next few years. It therefore feels the wrong time to be redrawing boundaries which will soon need reviewing again. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/8534 1/1 Newcastle upon Tyne District Personal Details: Name: Joseph Eldridge E-mail: Organisation Name: Aural X-Otika Comment text: I like the new prposals (those in Red) My ideal changes would be too complicated to implement as they do not follow logical community boundaries! I feel the new boundaries reflect the changing nature of Newcastle. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded Pr9hvq A ) txs5s r tx1txs r 5hyxhyxr3 Tr) (6t! % !)$# U) rvr Tiwrp) 8P H QG6DIU rQ hys I@IrphyrUr AyyVAyht) Ayy AyhtTh) Ayhttrq Boundary Commission Complaint Newcastle Upon Tyne Benton Lodge Estate We understand that the latest proposal to exclude this small estate from its only neighbour in Newcastle which has been its home for all my life Dene Ward. We are otherwise bounded by North Tyneside Council on our north and east - This would make us almost a satellite to proposed Manor Park Ward with whom we have no connection. I was born in Dene View (within Dene Ward proposals) and moved to Benton Lodge in 1985. Ever since this estate has always been important to the Dene Ward councillors who have been sympathetic to our many issues and we do not wish to be forced to be abandoned by them now there is a serious traffic problem of "rat running" though several of this estates' 20 mph roads since North Tyneside remove the roundabout at Four Lane Ends (Jointly owned junction of A191 A186) and replaced it with traffic signals causing much longer queues of traffic on each leg except theirs. We are pleading with you to swap this estate with the Jesmond Park West area and return us to our home. Mr and Mrs Gordon Forster 1 Newcastle upon Tyne District Personal Details: Name: Gerard Hunwick E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 3: Nuns Moor Park 1: Bike Garden 4: 2: Nunsmoor Centre Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 1: Bike Garden Annotation 2: Nunsmoor Centre Annotation 3: Nuns Moor Park Annotation 4: Comment text: I question the wisdom of dissociating Nuns Moor Park, The Bike Garden and the Nunsmoor Centre from their close relationship with the Arthur's Hill community and putting them into a new East Fenham super-ward. This will leave Arthur's Hill residents with no park to continue to call their own. The people of Arthur's Hill (mostly in a voluntary capacity) have been the central contributors to the development of these centres as places where people can enjoy an outdoor environment and also the central users of these facilities. Initiatives such as Greening Wingrove, The Time Exchange, Churches Acting Together, Sustrans, the Nunsmoor Trust and others have worked tirelessly with local people over the past five years to make these spaces relevant and this is reflected in the increasing use of these spaces by Arthur's Hill residents and their willingness to get involved in things like street clean-ups, planting and maintenance of green spaces. Historically too, Arthur's Hill has been closely associated with Nuns Moor and for 126 years allotments provided a place where locals could grow their own produce - valuable in the absence of gardens in houses where most just have concreted yards. Whilst it is recognised that just because these assets may be transferred into the boundaries of a different ward it would not mean they would be out of bounds to Arthur's Hill residents, what it will do is detach Arthur's Hill residents from ward level involvement in park decision- making. With recent research showing the public health advantages of green spaces, it would seem like folly to deprive a new Arthur's Hill ward from its only significant green space. In addition, the proposed Arthur's Hill ward (most of which is currently in the Wingrove ward) will see the area lose its association with the former General Hospital site (which is increasingly growing in economic importance due to university and science city funding) as well the historic Spital Tongues community and the Town Moor. These losses will impoverish those living in the Arthur's Hill area in terms of community facilities, especially if combined with the City Council desire to see Arthur's Hill be linked with more deprived areas that currently sit in Westgate ward. In my opinion, Westgate ward will as a result, in effect be absolved of most of its current responsibility to look at the needs of those living in poorer communities. The new Arthur's Hill ward will undoubtedly rank higher on the deprivation indices than the current Wingrove ward in which most of the proposed ward currently sits. I am aware that some argue this is a good thing as it will make it easier to attract funding, but changing political boundaries to achieve this seems to fly in the face of the intent of the LGBCE exercise, which is to ensure communities are fairly and equally represented. Making a poor area poorer through loss of facilities that help enrich that community and help bring people together and through asking that area to be adjoined to other poorer communities (so increasing competition for funding among those communities) doesn't seem the best way of meeting the challenges that face us in this area of Newcastle. Instead of trying to achieve these changes by changing boundaries, would it not be best for wards to retain their assets and work from a position of strength going forward, rather than being stripped of most of the things that have helped this area retain a sense of community.