Local Government Boundary Commission For Report No.348 LOCAL COVERuMEIlT BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOH S.'GLAilD

CHAIRMA7I

Sir Nicholas Morrison KGB •

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN

Mr J M Rankin QC

MEMBERS

Lady Bouden

Mr J T Brockbank

Mr R R Thornton CB DL

Mr D P Harrison

Professor G E Cherry To the Rt Hon- William Whitelaw CH MC :;!? Secretary of State for the Home Department

PROPOSALS FOR FUTURE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE BOROUGH OF RSSTORKEL IN THE COtJNTY OF

1. \7ef the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, having carried out ourinitial review of the electoral arrangements for the borough of , in accordance with the requirements of section 63 of, and Schedule 9 to,- the Local Government Act 1972, present our proposals for the future electoral arrangements for that district.

2. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Section 60(l) and (2) of the 1972 Act, notice was given on 31 December 19?^ that we were to undertake this review. This was incorporated in a consultation letter addressed to Restormel Borough Council, copies of which were circulated to Cornwall County Council, a town council, parish councils and parish meetings in the district, the Members of Parliament for the constituencies concerned and the headquarters of the main political parties. Copies were also sent to the editors of the local newspapers circulating in the area and of the local government press. Notices inserted in the. local press announced the start of the review and invited comments from members of the public and from interested bodies.

3. Restormel Borough Council were invited to prepare a draft scheme of representation for our consideration. When doing so, they were asked to observe the rules laid down in Schedule 11 to the Local Government Act 1972, and the guidelines set out in our Report No. £. alxmt the proposed size of the Council and the proposed number of councillors for each ward. They were also asked to take into account views expressed to them following their consultation with local interests, ^e therefore asked that they should publish details of their provisional proposals about a;.month before they submitted their draft scheme to us, thus allowing opportunity for local comment.

4. The Council have passed a resolution under Section 7(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 1972, requesting the Secretary of State to provide for a system of whole council elections.

5. On 29 Kay 1975 Restormel Borough Council submitted their draft scheme of representation. The Council proposed to divide the area of the district into 14 wards each returning 3 members to form a council of 42 members'. 6. 7/e considered the draft scheme together with the comments which we had received and those which had been sent to us by the Borough Council.

7. We noted that the draft scheme showed some uneveriness in the standard of representation, ^e considered whether there were modifications which might "be made to secure a more even standard. .

8. We thought that there would be some advantage, in terms of equality of ( representation, if the parishes of the Rock and Pydar wards in the Council's ' - draft scheme were to be regrouped: the Rock ward to..comprise the parishes of Roche, St Dennis and , and the Pydar ward to comprise the parishes of Mawgan-in-Pydar, and St TCenn, each ward returning 3 councillors. For the same reason we also proposed'-to include the parish of in-the proposed ward. '

9- TTe decided that the 3-meraber River ward proposed by the Council should be divided into two wards so that the Fowey River ward would comprise the parishes of and St Sampson plus the Fowey ward of the former borough of -with- Fowey, returning 2 councillors; and the parish of should constitute a separate single member ward.

10. We thought that a change in part of the boundary between the proposed Edgcumbe and Gannel wards, and in part of the boundary between the proposed Trevarna and Polstreath wards, might improve the standard of representation in those areas.

11. Subject to the changes referred to in paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 above, we decided that the District Council's draft scheme provided a reasonable basis for the future electoral arrangements of the district in compliance with the rules in Schedule 11 to the 1972 Act and having regard to our guidelines. >7e formulated our draft proposals accordingly.

12. On 17 January 1977 we issued our draft proposals and these were sent to all who had received our consultation letter or had commented on the Borough Councilfs draft scheme. The Borough Council were asked to make these draft proposals and the * accompanying maps, showing the proposed ward boundaries, available for inspection at their main offices. Representation on- our draft proposals were invited from those to whom they were circulated and, by public notices, from other members of the public and interested bodies. We asked for comments to reach us by 17 March 1977. 13- Restormel Borough Council objected to all the modifications which we had introduced in formulating our draft proposals. They requested the reinstatement of their draft scheme arrangements, apart from their proposed 3-member Fowey River ward. This, they now agreed, should be divided into two wards, but retaining the existing arrangements under which Lostwithiel and Lanlivery parishes together return one councillor while Fowey and St Sampson parish together return two.

14. St Sampson Parish Council reaffirmed a previous request that the present arrangements for their parish, Fowey, Lostwithiel and Lanlivery should be retained, and indicated that the four authorities agreed on this.

15. As regards our draft proposals for the Crinnis and wards, where we had adopted the scheme submitted to us by the Borough Council, we received objections from a county councillor, 4 local political associations, a village council, a ratepayers association, a borough councillor and a Methodist minister.

16. In view of the objections to our proposals we decided that we needed further information to enable us to reach a conclusion. Therefore, in accordance with Section 65(2) of the 1972 Act Mr L P fallen was appointed an Assistant Commissioner at our request and asked to hold a local meeting and to report to us.

17. The Assistant Commissioner held a meeting at the Municipal Offices, St Austell on 20 October 1977- A copy of his report is attached at Schedule 1 to this report.

18. In the light of the discussion at the meeting and of his inspection of the Borough the Assistant Commissioner recommended that the boundary "between the proposed Edgcucibe and Qannel wards in our draft proposals should be confirmed, but that the following modifications should be made to those proposals:- (a) our proposed Castle and Polstreath wards should be replaced by the following wards: (i) a ward to be named consisting of the parish of St Mewan and northern part of our proposed Polstreath ward, returning 3 councillors; (ii) a ward to be named , consisting of the parishes of Creed, Srampound and St Ewe together with the central area of our proposed Polstreath ward, returning one councillor; (iii) a ward to be named consisting of the parishes of and St Michael Caerhay.fi , together with the southern part of our proposed Polstreath ward, returning 2 councillors; Cb) our proposed Pydar and Rock wards should be replaced by the following wards: (i) a ward to be named Pydar consisting of the parishes of Mawgan-in-Pydar and St V/enn together with the Middle, North and Town Wards of the parish of St Columb Major, returning 2 councillors; (ii) a ward to IE-named St Enoder consisting of the parish of St Enoder and the South ward of the parish of St Columb Major, returning 2 councillors: (iii) a ward to be named Rock consisting of the parishes of Roche and St Dennis, returning 2 councillors;

(c) the parishes of Luxulyan from our proposed Treverbyn ward, and Lanlivery from our proposed Fowey ward, should be transferred to our proposed Lostwithiel ward and the representation of that ward be increased to 2 councillors;

Cd) the boundaries of the proposed Crinnis and Tywardreath wards should be redrawn to produce three areas: (i) one forming a ward to be named Crinnis returning 2 councillors; (ii) another forming a ward to be named St Blaise returning 3 councillors; (iii) the area remaining, together with the Fowey ward of the former borough of St Austell-with-Fowey and the parish of St Sampson, forming a ward to be named Fowey, returning 3 councillors.

19. The effect of the Assistant Commissioner's*recommendations was to provide for 1? wards, two more than in our draft proposals, and a council of ^3 members, one uiore than we had proposed.

20. We have reviewed our draft proposals in the light of the comments which we had received and of the report of the Assistant Commissioner. We were disposed to accept his recommendations but in view of the radical revisions to the draft proposals that he recommended, and because we felt that his considered view had not been sufficiently tested against local feelings at the meeting, we thought that copies of his report should be circulated among interested parties for comment before we reached any final conclusions.

21. The response to the report was considerable. There was a good deal of support for a number of the revisions which the Assistant Commissioner had recommended, though some opposition was expressed to the proposals for the Castle and Polstreath wards and the boundary between the proposed Pydar and St Enoder wards. But the arrangements he advocated for the Fowey area received no support; many people favoured an alternative arrangement suggested by the Borough Council of two 2-member wards rather than a single 3-rcember ward in this area. There were also criticisms of one or two matters of detail in his recommendations. 22. In the lifrht of these comments we decided that we should make the following modifications to the Assistant Commissioner's recommendations:-

a) the proposed 3-member Fowey ward to be divided into two 2-member wards,

to be named Fowey and Tywardreath, as proposed by the Borough Council,

thereby increasing the total council size to Vf,

b) the proposed Pydar ward to be renamed St Columb ward,

c) the St Mewan/Trevarna ward boundary to be modified as suggested by

the Borough Council by the transfer of an area involving about

205 electors from the St Mewan to the Trevarna ward. The

resultant Trevarna ward would be as originally proposed in the

Council's draft scheme.

After careful consideration of all the comments put forward we decided on balance to accept the Assistant'Commissioner*s other recommendations and have formulated our final proposals accordingly.

23. Details: of these, final proposals are set out in Schedules 2 and 3 "to this report and on the attached maps. Schedule 2 gives the name of the wards and the numbers of councillors to be returned by each. A detailed description of the boundaries of the proposed wards, as defined on the maps, is set out in Schedule 3-

PUBLICATION

24. In accordance with Section 60(5)(b) of the Local Government Act 1972, a copy of this report and copies of the maps are being sent to the Restormel Borough

Council and will be available for inspection at the Borough Council's main offices.

Copies of this report (without the maps) are also beine sent to those who received the consultation letter and to those who made comments.

L.S. Signed:

NICHOLAS MORRISON (Chairman)

JOHN M RANKIN (Deputy Chairman)

PHYLLIS BOWDEN

TYRRELL BROCKBANK

G E CHERRY

D P HARRISON

R R THORNTON

LESLIE GRIMSHAW (Secretary)

24 MAY 1979

6F LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1972

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REPORT of the Assistant Commissioner appointed to hold a local meeting- into the future electoral arrangements for the Borough of Reatormel in the County of Cornwall.

A — Introduction

I waa appointed an Assistant Commissioner of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England to hold a local meeting to hear representations about the Draft Proposals of the Commission for revised electoral arrangements for the Borough of Restormel.

I held the meeting in the Council Chamber, at the Municipal Offices, Road, St. Auatell on Thursday, 20th October, 1977. The following persons attended;-

RESTORMEL BOROUGH COUNCIL

The Mayor (Councillor W. J. Julyan) Ward No. 1 The Deputy liayor (Councillor R.S. Morris) Ward No. 13 Councillors

Col. T.G. Alexander Ward No. 5 Mrs. H.I. Court Ward No. 11 J.E.G* Goddard Ward No. 5 (also County Cllr. for St. Austell East Electoral Division', J.C. Wakeford Ward No. 2 (also County Cllr. for St. Austell East Central Electoral Division)

Officers

Mr. D.W. Cross Chief Executive Officer Mr. A.W. Townsend Technical and Planning Director Mias V. Worton Senior Administrative Assistant

CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL

Mr. J.D. Cooper Senior Assistant Solicitor Mr. D.B. Gripe Senior Committee Clerk

PARISH COUNCILS

Councillor E.M. Purse Lostwithiel Town (also Borough councillor for Ward No. 1O) Mr. J.F. Pollard Lanlivery Councillor R.W. Keam Luxulyan (also Borough Councillor for Ward No. 8) Councillor L.T.J. Lobb Mawgan-in-Pydar (also Borough Councillor for Ward No. 9) Mr. P.C.G. Stephens Roche Mrs. M.G. Merrifleld St. Columb Major (Clerk) Councillor P.R. Burnett St. Dennis (also Borough Councillor for Ward No. 8 and County Councillor for Roche Electoral Division) Councillor D.B. Harris St. Enoder (also Borough Councillor for Ward No.6j - 2 -

Mr. J.F. Benney St. Enoder (Clerk) Mr. Corry Wright St. Sampson Councillor Mrs. E.F.A. Clyma St. Stepben-in-Brannel (also Borough Councillor for Ward No. 6)

ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. B.H. Jones St. Blazey and Biscovey Conservative Branch Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Middleton Tywardreath Conservative Branch Mr. B.M. Tidy Truro Constituency Labour Party Mr. D.E. Hughes St. Blazey Liberal Association Mr. A. Anstis Par Old Cornwall Society Mr. and Mrs. R. Glanville Tywardreath Old Cornwall Society Mr. and Mrs. G. Sugden Tywardreath Old Cornwall Society Mr* F.G. Hudson Tywardreath Village Council Mr. Jenkin Ward No. 2 Ratepayers Association Mr. K.W. Glllman Ward No. 3 Ratepayers Association Mr. J.R. Smith Ward No. 5 Ratepayers Association

Rev. F.H. Bagwell Methodist Minister, Tywardreath Rev. S* Clark Vicar of Par Rev. M.J. Oatey -: Vicar of Tywardreath and Rector of St. Sampson Miss M. Wilson Par Parish Mr. R.W. Blackie Biscovey Dr. E.J. Tippett Mr. D.A. Trevanion One Press Representative

3.1 The Borough of Restormel comprises the former Borough of St. Austell with Fowey, the Urban District of and the Rural District of St. Austell* The former Borough of St. Austell with Fowey lay arouzlSt. Austell and Mevagissey Bays on the south Cornish coast from, in the east, the Port and holiday resort of Fowey to, in the west, the fishing port and holiday resort of Mevagissey. The town of St. Austell lies midway between these two holiday resorts and is the centre of the Cornish china clay industry. There are substantial areas of active and abandoned china clay quarries both in the northern parts of the former borough and stretching north and west of that borough into the area of the former St. Austell Rural District. In the north west of the new Borough in the town of Newquay (formerly Newquay Urban District), one of the best known holiday resorts on the north Cornish coast.

3.2 The Borough of Restormel is currently divided into 14 electoral wards returning- a total of 38 councillors. On 29th May, 1975, In response to a request by the Commission, the Borough Council submitted a Draft Scheme for revised electoral arrangements for the Borough. The Scheme provided for 14 wards each returning 3 members. The council had previously opted for whole council elections every four years. With one or two possible exceptions, the Draft Scheme has the support of all the parishes in the new Borough. - 3 -

3.3 On 17th January, 1977 the Commission, having considered the Borough Council's Draft Scheme and comments put to them, issued their Draft Proposals for new electoral arrangements for the Borough. The Draft Proposals provide for the division of the Borough into 15 wards, thirteen of which would each return 3 members and the remaining 2 wards would return one and two councillors respectively. These last two wards result from the division of the Borough Council's Fowey River 3-member ward into two wards: Fowey River with 2 members and Lostwithiel with 1. Of the remaining 13 wards in the Draft Proposals, 6 coincide in all respects with wards in the Borough Council's Draft Scheme but in the case of the remaining 7 wards the Draft Proposals envisage amendments in varying degrees to the wards in the Draft Scheme.

3.4 At the local meeting on 2Oth October last the Borough Council agreed in principle to the division of their Fowey River Ward into 2 wards returning a total of 3 Councillors but asked that the area be divided in a way which differed from that proposed by the Commission. They also opposed the amendmentsproposed by the Commission to the 7 wards mentioned in the preceding sub-paragraph of this report.

The only other proposal of substance before the local meeting was by Councillor Goddard to divide the Crinnis and Tywardreath Wards, which feature in both the Draft Scheme and the Draft Proposals, into 3 wards, returning a total of 7 councillors. This matter is dealt with in more detail in paragraphs 6 and 7 below.

3.5 The Borough Council's Draft Scheme is administratively a very tidy one with its fourteen 3.Tmembjer .wards. As the Borough Council see the scheme it will facilitate their administration by allowing them to place on each of their main committees a member from each ward and it will also, they believe, produce 14 county electoral divisions, always supposing that the Cornwall County Council is of a size to permit the allocation of 14 members to the Borough. (The suggested division of the Fowey River Ward as proposed by the Borough Council - o-T the Commission - would not affect this situation as the Borough Council would continue to regard the 1x1 member ward and 1x2 member ward as a single ward for the purposes of Committee representation and County electoral divisions). In their Draft Scheme the Borough Council also appear to have been motivated by the desire to avoid creating any ward which crosses the former boundary between the old Borough of St. Austell with Fowey and the old St. Austell Rural District.

3.6 While accepting that a uniform pattern of 3 member wards may be administratively convenient, I see one major objection to it. Such a pattern produces perfectly satisfactory wards in the predominantly urban parts of the Borough but in the more rural areas it results in some cases in Wards which in my opinion are geographically far too large to provide effective representation of the electorate* Two outstanding examples of this situation occur in the Draft Scheme. Pydar ward covers about 4O square miles and Castle Ward about 35 square miles, the latter being nearly eleven miles long from the northern tip of the pariah of St. Mewan to in the South and having an average width ot about 3 miles. Wards of this size present, in my opinion, an almost impossible task to a new Candidate canvassing for election and to a councillor in maintaining proper contact with the electorate. In the main, members of local authorities live in the wards they represent and at present a considerable majority of the members of the Restormel Borough Council are elected as Independents. In these circumstances chance may decree that at any one time the three members in a large rural ward may live in places evenly spread over the ward. It is, however, entirely a matter of chance - 4 -

and there is already one instance in the Borough where two out of the 3 members of a sizeable and predominantly rural 3-member ward, live in a small town at the extremity of the ward. These two councillors must, therefore, be very inaccesible to electors at the other extremities of the ward. This situation is in my opinion likely to become more rather than less pronounced if, following- the pattern elsewhere in the country, the political parties decide to play a more prominent part in the elections to the Borough Council, than they have in the past. Those parties must chose the candidate with the best chance of being elected, irrespective of where he lives in the ward* Consequently, all three members representing a large rural ward might live in the same part of the ward and be relatively inaccessible to electors in other parts. I believe this position is generally understood and accepted in the warding of rural areas where a pattern of one or two member wards is usually found.

3.7 In recognition of the work done by the Borough Council in re-warding the Borough, it should, however, be said at once that the problem of warding the rural parts of the Borough is unusually complicated by the fact that parishes in the Borough tend to be considerably larger in area than in many other parts of the country and only one parish is divided into wards. Having regard to the statutory prohibition against dividing an unwarded parish between wards, it is, therefore, more than usually difficult to create single member wards without making a host of fresh orders dividing rural parishes into wards. In the time available this is not possible but I do make certain recommendations later in this report which will, I believe, improve the position in regard to the very large rural wards.

3.8 I approach my report to the commission in this matter on the following basic principles:-

(a) that the primary purpose of the review of electoral arrangements is to achieve equality of representation, i.e. that the ratio of the number of electors to the number of councillors shall be, as nearly as may be, the same in every district ward.

(b) that compatability between district wards and county electoral divisions is desirable, but not essential and that there will be frequent occasions when compatability cannot be achieved.

(c) that regard shall be had to any local ties that would be broken by the fixing of any particular boundary but that such regard must at all times be subordinate to the primary purpose of the review.

(d) that almost any review will result in some changes of existing arrangements and that arguments directed principally to the maintenance of the status quo are of limited relevance.

3.9 As I see the situation from papers supplied to me by the Commission in advance of the local meeting, from what was said at that meeting and from my inspection of the Borough there are four areas in the Draft Scheme and • Draft Proposals calling for special attention, - 5 -

(a) Castle and Polatreath wards;

(b) Fydar ward and the Parish of St. Enoder;

(c) Crinnis and Tywardreath wards;

(d) Fowey River Ward and the Parish of Luxulyan.

I propose dealing separately with these four areas, including any repercussions of my recommendations in relation thereto and then to report on an isolated matter concerning the warding of the Newquay area.

B. Castle and Polstreath Wards

4.1 Castle Ward reproduces Ward 7 of the existing scheme for the Borough. It lies immediately west of the western boundary of the former Borough of St. Austell with Fowey and stretches from the northernmost point of the Parish of St. Mewan for a distance of nearly 11 miles southwards to Dodman Point* The Ward has at present 3,927 electors which will rise to 4,410 in 198O. 5O% of this electorate lives in the Parish of St. Mewan at the northern end of the Ward.

Immediately to the east of Castle Ward in the Borough Council's Draft Scheme is Polstreath Ward which, save for a reduction at its northern end reproduces Ward 4 in the existing scheme. Polstreath Ward is again a long narrow ward extending, in the north from the western outskirts of the town of St* Austell southwards through open country to Mevagissey, a small town and holiday resort. The electorate of this Ward is now 4,212 rising to 4,332 by 198O. Over 50% of that electorate is in the area of the ward forming part of the town of St* Austell and about 40% in and immediately around Mevagissey, 4 miles to the south.

4.2 Wards 4 and 7 doubtless found their way into the existing scheme because of the boundary between the former Borough and Rural District. The current review of electoral arrangements for the new Borough offers in my opinion an opportunity for a very necessary radical alteration of the warding of this area; an opportunity which although apparently considered by the Borough Council was not taken.

Both the proposed Polstreath and Castle Wards have at their northern end areas of relatively dense urban development: in the case of Polstreath the western residential area of the town of St. Austell and in the case of Castle the township of which contains a substantial majority of the, population of the Parish of St. Mewan. Trewoon lies astride the main wa*d from St. Austell to Newquay and as a result of recent development it would be difficult indeed without a map in one's £wtafSo decide at what point St. Austell ended and Trewoon began. I have no doubt that Trewoon, and the whole of the Parish of St. Mewan looks to and has a community of interest with St. Austell rather than the open country to the south which forms the remainder of Castle Ward. I therefore propose below the establishment of a new 3-member ward - St. Mewan - consisting of the Parish of St. Mewan and the northern part of the proposed Polstreath Ward. - 6 -

4.3 At the southern end of Polstreath ward lies the small fishing port and holiday resort of Mevagissey and immediately south of Mevagissey, but in the Parish of St. Goran in Castle Ward, Is the holiday resort of . Here again I am satisfied from my inspection of the area that these two resorts and adjoining areas have a community of interest with each other but virtually none with urban or suburban St. Austell.

Immediately west of the parish of St. Goran is the Parish of St* Michael Caerhayes. The total electorate of these two parishes plus the Mevagisaey area of the proposed Polstreath Ward is about 2,50O. I therefore propose below the establishment of a new 2-member Ward - Mevagissey - covering that area.

4.4 There remains of the proposed Castle and Polstreath Wards the Parishes of Creed, and St. Ewe and the central section of the proposed Polstreath Ward. The whole of this area is predominantly agricultural in character and the total electorate is about 1,425. I therefore propose below the establishment of a new single member Ward - St. Ewe - to cover the area.

4.5 Linked with my proposals for the three foregoing new Wards is an amendment made by the Commission in their Draft Proposals to the Council's Draft Scheme in relation to Polstreath and Trevana Wards. Taking the view that in the Draft Scheme Trevana Ward was somewhat under-represented by 3 councillors while Polstreath ward was a little over-represented, the Commission proposed the transfer from Trevana Ward to Polstreath Ward of a rectangle of land immediately south of the St. Austell by-pass. This involved the transfer of 191 electors from Trevana to Polstreath.

At the local meeting when the merits of'the Commission's proposal were being discussed the Borough Council opposed it principally on the ground that the residents in this relatively small area south of the by- pass considered themselves townsfolk and wanted therefore to vote in a town ward where they could more easily consult their councillors "who in the Polstreath Ward might all three live in Uevagissey some four miles away**. As I am now proposing a new ward - St. Me wan - which will be largely urban in character and consequently relatively small in area, the principal objection of the electorate of this small rectangle to its removal from Trevana Ward will disappear. As, therefore, better equality of representation can be achieved between tHe new St..Mewan Ward and the adjoining Trevana Ward by placing this rectangle in St. Mewan Ward, I have done so in my detailed proposals below*

4.6 Before detailing my proposals in this matter I should record what was said at the local meeting in relation to the Castle and Polstreath Wards in the Draft Scheme and Draft Proposals. First of all both Mr. Tidy, on behalf of the Truro Constituency Labour Party and Mr. Hartwell speaking for the Truro Constituency Liberal Party expressed dislike of the Polstreath ward. Mr, Tidy considered that the electorate in, the west of the town of St» Austell had more in common with St. Mewan than with the areas in the South of the Ward. He suggested that St. Mewan should be linked with an area similar to the old St. Austell West Ward which existed prior to local government reorganisation. Mr. Hartwell for his part pointed to tha lack of any community of interest between St. Mewan and the south of the proposed Castle Ward and expressed the opinion that there was community and interest between Mevagissey and the Parish of St. Goran. It was his view that if the Parish of St. Mewan were included in a modification of - 7 -

the proposed Polstreath Ward, the rectangular area to the south of the St. Austell by-pass referred to in the preceding sub-paragraph of this report could properly be included in the new ward.

Tlie Chief Executive of the Borough Council, in reply, and supported by Councillor J.C. Wakeford, indicated that the points raised by Mr. Tidy had been considered by the Council and rejected because the St. Mewan Parish Council wished to remain linked with the other parishes in the proposed Castle Ward. Councillor Mrs. Clyma, who was the Mayor of the Borough when the Council's Draft Scheme was being prepared, explained that it had originally been proposed that the Parish of St. Mewan should be re-warded with that part of the old Borough immediately to the east but that the proposal had been dropped in the face of opposition from the Parish Council* She pointed out that although the township of Trewoon was an urbanised area, the rest of the Parish of St. Mewan was rural. Finally, Councillor Wakeford told me that his personal opinion was that the best solution to the warding problems in this area involved the linking: of St. Mewan with the area immediately to the east of the Parish but that he had been over-ruled by the majority of the Borough Council.

4.7 I recommend as follows in relation to the areas covered by the Castle and Polstreath Wards as shown in the Commission's Draft proposals:-

(a) the creation of a ward to be known as St. Mewan Ward returning three councillors and covering the following* area

(i) the Parish of St. Mewan

(ii) that part of tne Polstreath Ward described in the Commission's Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 (including the area therein proposed to be transferred from the Trevana Ward as shown in the Council's Draft Scheme to the Polstreath Ward in the Commission's Draft Proposals) aa lies north of a line commencing at the north east corner of the existing St. Ewe parish boundary where it adjoins the St. Mewan parish boundary at Nat. Grid Ref: SW.9988O.5O4O1; thence following- the said St. Ewe parish boundary in a south easterly direction to where it meets the to Little Road at Nat. Grid Ref: SX 00369.4992O; thence north eastwards along the said road to where it meets the (B.3273) St. Austell to Mevaglssey Road, at London Apprentice; thence in a northerly direction along: the Road (B.3273) towards St. Austell to a point where it meets Road at Nat. Grid Ref: SX 01298.51/23O thence in an easterly direction along- that road to the point -..• where it meets Porthpean Road at the western boundary of Crinnis Ward as described in the Commission's Draft Proposals.

(b) the creation of a ward to be known as St. Ewe Ward returning one Councillor and covering the following area

(i) the Parishes of Creed, Grampound and St. Ewe - 8 -

(ii) that part of the Polstreath Ward as described in the Commission's Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 aP lies south of the St. Mewan Ward as described in sub-paragraph (a) above»and north of a line commencing at a point where the existing St. Ewe parish boundary crosses a road north east of Peruppa Farm at Nat. Grid Ref: SX OO033.47O66; thence south eastwards along said road to the Pentewan to Mevagissey (B.3273) road at Nat. Grid Ref: SX 01168.46268; thence along said (B.3273) road in a north easterly direction towards Pentewan to Nat. Grid Ref: SX O1637.4645O; thence due east along a cliff top path and down the cliff on to Sconhoe Beach to MHW level at Nat. Grid Ref: SX 01745.46453, being a point north west of Sconhoe Rock.

(c) the creation of a ward to be known as Uevagissey Ward returning 2 Councillors and covering the following area

(i) the Parishes of St. Goran and St. Michael Caerhayes

(ii) that part of the Polstreath Ward as described in the Commission's Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 as: lies south of the St. Ewe ward as described in sub-paragraph (b) above.

I understand that except in relation to that part of the recommended St. Mewan Ward incorporated therein from the Trevana ward in the Council's Draft Scheme, the boundaries detailed above are the boundaries of existing polling districts in the present warding arrangements of the Borough.

4.8 On the basis of the foregoing recommendations the numerical "entitlements" (based on a 43 member Council) of Trevana Ward as amended and of the three new wards are as follows:- No. of 1976 1980 Ward Councillors Electorate Entitlement Electorate Entitlement

Trevana 3 4.23O 3.24 4,459 3.23 St. Mewan 3 4,144 3.18 4,598 3.32 St. Ewe 1 1,423 1.O9 1,486 1.O8 Mevagissey 2 2.5O9 1.92 2,583 1.87

C. Pydar Ward and Parish of St. Enoder

5.1 Pydar Ward, covering the Parishes of Mawgan-in-Pydar, St. Columb Major, St. Wenn and St. Enoder is the largest ward in the Boitough Council's Draft Scheme both as to size and electorate. With a present electorate of 5,Oil and with a 43 member council it would be arithmetically entitled to 3.84 Councillors reducing to 3.69 in 198O. Being limited to only 3 councillors the Ward as constituted in the Draft Scheme faces long-term under-representation.

In these circumstances the Commission in their Draft Proposals provided for the exclusion from the Ward of the Parish of St. Enoder which they propose adding to the adjoining Rock Ward. . 5.2 The Borough Council oppose the separation of the Parish of St. Enoder from the rest of Pydar Ward on the grounds that it would have the effect of dividing a minor "conurbation" consisting of the triangle of villages of St. Column Road, and F.raddon, which straddles the boundary between St. Enoder and St. Columb Major and which ha« a strong community of interest. At the local meeting the Borough Council obtained substantial support for their point of view.

3.3 Having visited the area of these three villages I accept that the Borough Council have a valid objection to the Commission's proposal to divide the "conurbation1* between two wards. I also, however, accept the Commission's point that Pydar Ward in the Council's Draft Scheme is too large to be a 3-member ward. Fortunately, however, the Parish ofStColumb Major is the only parish in the whole of the Borough which is already divided into wards and once one moves away from the basic concept that all wards must return 3 councillors, this fact offers what I believe to be a satisfactory solution of the problem.

In the three village "conurbation", St. Columb Road and Indian Queens lie in the South Ward of the Parish of St. Columb Major while is in the Parish of St. Enoder. If, therefore, the Borough Council's Pydar Ward were divided into two 2-member wards the "conurbation" could be kept in a single ward. The division would be as follows:-

1976 Entitlement • Electorate (43 member council)

(a) Pydar Ward as in Draft Scheme less South Ward of St. Columb Major and St* Enoder and returning 2 Councillors 2,772 2.13

(b) St* Enoder Ward con- sisting of parish of St* . Enoder plus South Ward of St. Columb Major and returning 2 Councillors 2,239 1.72

These entitlements will not change materially on the 198O forecast electorate. I recommend the establishment of the two wards described above.

D. Crinnia and Tywardreath Wflrds

6.1 Ever since the preparation of the Borough Council's Draft Scheme, Councillor Goddard, a member of the Borough Council and of the Cornwall County Council, has been campaigning to divide the Crinnia and Tywardreath Wards in the Draft Scheme into two 2-member wards and one 3-member ward. His argument in favour of three rather than two wards is that the two ward arrangement involves the division of the area known as St. Blazey Gate between the two wards. Councillor Goddard argues that St. Blazey Gate is a single community with its own organisations and institutions and that it is fundamentally wrong to divide it between two wards as in the Council's Draft Scheme. - 10 -

Since the publication of the Commission's Draft Proposals, which re- produced the two ward arrangement in the Council's Draft Scheme, they have received a number of written representations from the political parties, the local ratepayers association, Councillor Hartwe11 (a member of the Borough Council) and a Methodist Minister, all complaining about the two-ward scheme and supporting the alternative arrangements proposed by Councillor Goddard.

6.2 At the local meeting all these representations were repeated. Councillor Goddard clearly has the support of all three political parties, in addition to certain members of the Borough Council, and of many local organisations. Apart from the Borough Council, there was only one dissentient voice, that of Mr. Trevanion who favoured a 3-member ward pattern throughout the Borough.

It was explained on behalf of the Borough Council that Councillor Goddard13 proposals had been considered by the Borough Council and rejected by a majority uf the members. Although it was not said so in so many words, I have the clear impression that Councillor Goddard*s proposals were rejected principally because they breached the underlying principle of a standard pattern of 3-nember wards.

6.3 In the light of the representations I received at the local meeting and having inspected the area in question, I am satisfied that Councillor Goddard is absolutely right in his basic argument that St. Blazey Gate is a community which should not be divided between two wards. In the existing warding arrangements it is linked in Ward 5 with the small adjoining township of St. Blazey and I believe it should continue to be so linked. The present arrangements cannot, however, stand as Ward 3 currently returns 4 members. I accept, therefore, Councillor Goddard's proposal that the area covered by the Crinnis and Tywardreath Wards in the Council's Draft Scheme and the Commission's Draft Proposals should be divided into three and as a first step I recommend the creation of the following two wards using the boundaries proposed by Councillor Goddard:-

(a) Crinnis Ward - returning two members - and consisting of that part of the Crinnis Ward in the Commission's Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 which lies west of a line commencing at Nat. Grid. Ref. SXO4600 5495O at Vounder Farm, thence in a south-easterly direction along the existing Ward Boundary which runs to the east of to where it meets Carveor Road, thence in a south-westerly direction along the said road to Tregrehan Road, thence south along Tregrehan Road to St. Austell Road (A39O) , thence north-eastwards along the said road to Par Moor Road, tnence eastwards along the said road to Nat. Grid. Ref. SXO6432 5279O, thence south-westwards and south-eastwards along a track and over the main south western railway line to a point southwest of Merthen Farm at Nat. Grid. Ref. SX0648O 5252O, thence south-west along a track to the cliff edge at Nat. Grid. Ref. SX0611O 5235O, thence southwards along a stream on Shorthorn Beach to the M.H.W. level, thence following the M.H.W. level in an easterly direction to Polgaver Beach and Nat. Grid. Ref. SXO6565 5223O, thence due south to the M.L.W. level at Nat. Grid. Ref. SX0657O 52210; - 11 -

(b) St* Blaise Ward - returning 3 members - and consisting of that part of the Crinnis Ward in the Commission's Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 which is not included in the Crinnis Ward described in the foregoing sub-paragraph of this report together with that part of the Tywardreath Ward in the said proposals of 17th January, 1977 which lies west of a line commencing at Nat* Grid Ref. SXO7O3O 55ISO at a point where the Far River crosses the southern boundary of the Parish of Luxulyan, thence in a southerly direction along the centre of the channel at low water of the said River Par to M.H.W. on Par Sands.

6.4 In connection with his three-ward proposals. Councillor Goddard has been questioning for some time the electorate of the Crinnis and Tywardreath Wards in the Council's Draft Scheme and the Commission's Draft Proposals. In consequence the Council have re-examined their initial forecasts and have revised them as followst-

1976 Electorate 19SO forecast electorate

Crinnis 4,149 4,643 Tywardreath 4,271 4,855

Applying these revised figures to the new Crinnis and St. Blaise Wards mentioned in Paragraph 6(3) (a) and 6(3) (b) above the electorates and entitlements for 1976 and 198O are as follows;-

Ward 1976 Entitlement 1980 Entitlement Electorate (43 member Council) Electorate (43 member Council

Crinnis 2,782 2.13 3,248 2.33 St. Blaise 3.5OO 2.68 3,948 2.86

6.5 The foregoing recommendations do not include that part of Tywardreath Ward in the Commission's Draft Proposals lying east of the recommended St. Blaise Ward. This area Councillor Goddard suggested as his new Tywardreath Ward in which he proposed including the hamlets of Polmear and on the eastern side of par Sands and which lies in Fowey River Ward in the Council's Draft Proposals. Councillor Goddard's proposed Tywardreath Ward is dealt with in the succeeding paragraph of this report.

E. Fowey River Ward and Parish of Luxulyan

7.1 Until about 10 years ago Fowey was an ancient borough. It was then incorporated into the Borough of St. Austell with Fowey in which it became a separate ward. On the establishment of the new Borough of Restorme1, Fowey Ward was linked with the adjoining Parish of St* Sampson in the former St. Austell Rural District to form the existing Ward 11 returning 2 Councillors against an arithmetical entitlement of 1.42. As this was clearly an unsatisfactory situation the Borough Council proposed in their Draft Scheme the establishment of a new 3- member Ward consisting of the ancient borough of Fowey together with the parishes of Lanlivery, Lostwithiel and St. Sampson. The Ward would have had a 1976 electorate of 3,876 and an arithmetical entitlement to 2.9O councillors, the corresponding figures for 198O being 3,95O and 2.83. - 12 -

Soon after receiving the Council's Draft Scheme the Commission were made aware of objections to a 3-member ward incorporating the two ancient boroughs of powey and Los twit hie 1. It was explained to the Commission that the two former boroughs were quite different in character* Fowey being a small port and holiday resort and Lostwithiel being the centre of an agricultural area. Faced with these criticisms of the Draft Scheme the Commission in their Draft Proposals provided for a 2-member ward consisting of Fowey and the Parishes of St. Sampson and Lanlivery and a 1-member ward for the Parish of Lostwithiel This proposal, which produced a satisfactory result so far as equality of representation is concerned, immediately ran into trouble because it cut local ties between Lanlivery and Lostwithiel. The Borough Council therefore asked for their original 3-member ward to be divided into a 2-member ward consisting of Fowey and the Parish of St. Sampeon and a 1-member ward consisting of the Parishes of Lostwithiel and Lanlivery. The relevant figures for 1976 (which are not subject to any appreciable variation in 198O) are as follows:-

proposed Ward Electorate Entitlement (43 member council)

Fowey and St. Sampson 2,07O 1.5S (2 members)

Lostwithiel ft. Lanlivery 1,797 1.37 (1 member)

As a 2 member ward Fowey and St. Sampson would be substantially over- represented and as a single member ward Lostwithiel and Lanlivery would be severely under-represented.

7.2 At the local meeting the Borough Council stated that they had varied . their original proposal for a 3-member ward in deference to the wishes of Fowey and the three parishes. Councillor Mrs. Court, representing the present Ward 11 (Fowey and St. Sampson) strongly supported the Borough Council's second thoughts in the matter and pointed out in particular that whereas Lostwithiel had the benefit of a Town Council and even the small parish of St. Sampson, had a parish council, Fowey, an isolated community, had no such council and was therefore entirely dependent upon its representation on the Borough Council. She was at the same time opposed to the transfer of the Polmear and Polkerris areas from Fowey to Tywardreath as suggested by Councillor Goddard. Mr. Corry Wright, representing St. Sampson Parish Council also supported the Borough Council's latest two—ward Bchene on the grounds that there was a close connection between ^ the principal village in his Parish, and Fowey but no connection with Lostwithiel. Councillor Furse, a member of the Borough Council for existing Ward 1O (Lanlivery and Lostwithiel and a member of the Lostwithiel Town Council) pressed that Lostwithiel should remain associated with Lanlivery and emphasised that there was no community of interest whatsoever between Lostwithiel and Fowey. paced with the alternatives of a 3-member ward for the area and a single member ward for Lostwithiel and Lanlivery, the Lostwithiel Town Council would prefer the degree of under-representation of a single member ward. - 13 -

7 .3 In the light of what was said at the local meeting I accept that Fowey and St. Sampson can conveniently be warded together as can Lostwithiel and Lanlivery but that a 3-member ward would not be the right solution for the area as a whole* I cannot, however* accept, on account of the degree of over-representation involved, that Fowey as an ancient borough should be a two member ward with the addition only of the Parish of St. Sampson.

Working within the confines of the Fowey River 3-member ward as in the Council's Draft Scheme, the problem area is Fowey itself which is too big as a single member ward and too small, even with St. Sampson, as a 2-member ward. It would furthermore be impossible even by drawing a tight urban fence around the built-up area of Fowey to reduce it to an appropriate size for a single-member ward. I believe, however, that there is a solution which meets all the essential requirements of the situation if one looks to the area inmediately to the northwest of Fowey. In that direction lies the area suggested by Councillor Goddard as his Tywardreath Ward (with which he included the Polmear and Polkerris areas of Fowey) but about which I made no recommendation in Paragraph 6 of this report. I now recommend that that area together Fowey and the Parish of St. Sampson be established as a new . 3-member ward to be known as Fowey Ward. I would formally describe the area of the ward as follows:-

that part of the Tywardreath Ward as shown in the Commission's • Draft Proposals of 17th January, 1977 which is not included in the new St. Blaiae Ward recommended in paragraph 6(2)(b) of this report together with Ward 11 of the existing scheme of electoral arrangements for the Borough.

The relevant figures for the recommended new Fowey Ward are as follows;-

1976 19SO Ward Electorate Entitlement Electorate Entitlement

Fowey 4.2O8 3.23 4,452 3.22

7.4 The recommended new Fowey Ward does not dispose of the parishes of Lostwithiel and Lanlivery which as a ward would be substantially under- represented with one councillor and much too snail for two. I appreciate that to preserve their link with Lanlivery the Lostwithiel Town Council are prepared to accept the two parishes as a single-member ward but I am not satisfied that even a Town Council is entitled to make such a sacrifice in the name of the electorate unless there is no other alternative.

Immediately west of the parish of Lanlivery is the Parish of Luxulyan. Luxulyan lies on the eastern borders of the quarrying area north of St. Austell but the parish is mainly agricultural in character. The only settlement of any significance in the parish is the village of Luxulyan in the southern half. The village has a good road running south west into St. Austell but other communications in the parish consist in the main of third class or unclassified roads. Using such roads it is possible to get from Luxulyan to Bugle, in the north of the Borough Council's Treverbyn Ward and from there to Roche in the parish of that name although I doubt whether many residents in Luxulyan often have occasion to make such a journey. - 14 -

In the Borough Council's Draft Scheme Luxulyan is linked with the Parishes of Roche and St. Dennis to form the Rock Ward. In the Commission's Draft Proposals the Parish of St. Enoder is linked with Roche and St. Dennis to form Rock Ward and the Parish of Luxulyan is added to the Borough Council's Treverbyn Ward, because if it had remained with the Parishes of St. Enoder, Roche and St. Dennis the resultant ward would have qualified for four councillors.

7.5 At the local.meeting there was considerable opposition to the Commission's proposal to include the Parish of Luxulyan in the Treverbyn Ward. The Borough Council opposed the proposal as a part of their general opposition to the Commission's proposals for St. Enoder and Councillor Burnett, a member of the St. Dennis Parish Council, of the Borough Council for Ward 8 (Parishes of Luxulyan, Roche and St. Dennis) and of the Cornwall County Council for the same area, also opposed the Commission's proposals both in relation to St. Enoder and Luxulyan. He maintained that there was a close historical contact between Roche and Luxulyan and that the three parishes of Luxulyan, Roche and St. Dennis wished to remain as a single ward.

Councillor Keam, the Chairman of the Luxulyan Parish Council and also a Borough Councillor for Ward 8 maintained that ward 8t the Council's new Rock Ward, should not be changed and that the Ward had nothing in common with either the Council's proposed Treverbyn Ward or with Lanlivery. Mr. Tidy, however, speaking on behalf of the Truro constituency Labour Party regarded Ward 8, the Council's proposed Rock Ward, to be awkwardly shaped and regarded the southern parts of the Parish of Luxulyan as having an affinity with the Council's proposed Treverbyn Ward. He was certain that Luxulyan had no affinity with St. Dennis.

7.6 In considering the foregoing contentions I have 'to bear in mind that they were directed primarily to opposing the Commission's proposal to include St. Enoder in Roche Ward and to place Luxulyan in Treverbyn Ward. I have recommended in Paragraph 3 of this report that St. Enoder should not be included in Roche Ward and if that recommendation is accepted there is no compelling reason why Luxulyan should be included in Treverbyn Ward.

Measured in a straight line (although in each case distances by road are greater) the centre of the village of Luxulyan is 3i miles from the centre of Lostwithiel, 4i miles from the centre of Roche and over 6 miles from St. Dennis. There is a third class or unclassified road from Luxulyan to Lanlivery and a good road from there to Lostwithiel and I can, therefore, see no valid reason why, to achieve the necessary equality of representation, the parishes of Luxulyan, Lanlivery and Lostwithiel should not form a perfectly satisfactory 2-member ward. In fact, I would go further and say that I believe that Luxulyan as a predominantly rural parish might very soon find a greater affinity with the adjoining rural parish of Lanlivery than with the parishes of Roche and St. Dennis which are closely involved with the quarrying industry.

7.7 I therefore recommend (1) that a new ward - Lostwithiel - returning two councillors be formed of the Parishes of Lanlivery, Lostwithiel and Luxulyan and

(2) that a new ward - Rock - returning two councillors be formed of the Parishes of Roche and St. Dennis. The figures regarding: these two recommended wards are as follows:-

1976 1980 Ward Electorate Entitlement Electorate Entitlement Lostwithiel 2,65O 2.O3 2,72O 1.96

Rock 3.O97 2.37 3,14O 2.27

F. Newquay Wards

8.1 In both the Council's Draft Scheme and the Commission's Draft Proposals the old Newquay Urban District together with the adjoining Parish of Golan are divided into three 3-member wards, Gannel, Edgcumbe and Rialton. In the Draft Scheme the boundary between Gannel and Edgcumbe Wards runs through the built up area of the town. Rialton and Edgcumbe Wards are shown in the Draft Scheme as haying almost identical electorates «n both 1976 and 1980 while Gannel Ward has about 6OO less electors both in present and projected figures. On those figures the arithmetical councillor entitlement of Gannel Ward both in 1976 and in 1980 falls marginally below 2.5. The Commission in their Draft Proposals therefore provide for a relatively small adjustment of the inter-ward boundary between Gannel and Edgcumbe Wards which will have the immediate effect of transferring some 38O electors from Edgcumbe Ward to Gannel Ward and in terms of electorate make Gannel Ward slightly larger than Edgcumbe. However, by 198O anticipated developments in Edgeurnbe Ward will have restored it to virtual equality with Gannel and each ward will have an arithmetical entitlement to about 2.75 councillors. The Commission's proposed amendment of the inter-ward boundary is desired only to promote better equality of representation.

8.2 The Borough Council oppose the Commission's proposed amendment on the following three grounds:-

(a) Whereas in their Draft Scheme they had divided the Newquay business representation equally between Edgcumbe and Gannel Wards"the commission's amendment would overload Gannel Ward with commercial interests having nothing- in common with which is within the Ward but on the southern side of the River Gannel.

(b) the inter-ward boundary proposed by the Commission encroaches into the former Newquay East Ward: an unnecessary complication for electors and local organisations.

(c) When drawing up their Draft Scheme, the Council had been of the opinion that community of interest was more important than a mathematical balance of electorate, which could not be achieved in other wards of the Borough.

At the local meeting the Council's official spokesman was supported in the foregoing objections by the Deputy Mayor, Councillor R. S. Morris who is at present one of the 3 councillors representing Ward 13 (the Central and East Wards of the former Newquay U.D.C.). councillor Morris emphasised that the Local Hotels Association, Chamber of commerce and Ratepayers Associations had been consulted on the Draft Scheme and none had objected to it. - 16 -

8.3 Having visited Newquay, I can accept the Borough Council's contention that the principal commercial concerns in the town* banks, insurance companies, building: societies, etc., have their premises in that part of the town already included in the Gannel Ward as proposed in the Draft Scheme. In the main, however, these are not premises where people live or from which they exercise their right to vote in local elections. The likelihood is that employees in these premises live in homes scattered throughout the town or even further afield. Furthermore, looking at the town as a whole, I doubt whether there are many residents who are not engaged in one way or another with the commercial aspects of a busy holiday resort. I do not, therefore, attach much weight to the Council's principal argument against the change. Nor do I consider that their other arguments outweigh the fact that under their Draft Scheme Gannel Ward will be substantially over- represented in comparison with Edgcumbe and Rialton Wards. I therefore recommend that the inter-ward boundary between Gannel and Edgcumbe Wards be as described in the Commission's Draft Proposals.

9. In view of the nature of my recommendations I summarise them in the Appendix to this report.

10. In concluding this report I should place on record my appreciation of the assistance I have received in formulating my recommendations from the Restorme1 Borough Council. After the date of the local meeting I initially explained to the Mayor that I was envisaging recommending quite substantial amendments to his Council's Draft Scheme (and the Commission's Draft Proposals) but that I should have great difficulty in doing so without the help of the Council's staff. Without committing himself in any way to the very broad outline I gave him of what I had in mind, the Mayor immediately agreed to provide the facilities I needed. Both in arranging for me to meet the Mayor and after that meeting I have received all possible assistance from Mr. Cross, the Council's Chief Executive Officer and from Hiss Worton his Senior Administrative Assistant. Without it, it would have been impossible to prepare this report in time to meet the deadline set by the Commission. I am most grateful to them.

Assistant Commissioner

1978 BOROUGH OF RESTORMEL APPENDIX

Recommended Wards

1976 1980 No. of Name of Ward Brief Description of Area Councillors Electorate Entitlement Electorate Entitlement

St. Stephen-in- Parish of St. Stephen-in-Brannel 3 3687 2.83 3950 2.86 Brannel

St . Mewan Parish of St. Mewan and northern 3 4144 3.18 4598 3.33 part of Commission's Polstreath Ward

St. Ewe Parishes of Creed, Grampound and 1 1425 1.09 1486 1.08 St. Ewe and central area of 1 Commission a Polstreath Ward .

Mevagiasey Parishes of St. Goran and St. 2 2509 1.92 2583 1 .87 Michael Caerhayes and southern part of Commission's Polstreath Ward

Roche Parishes of Roche and St. Dennis 2 3097 2.37 3140 2.27

Pydar Parishes of Mawgan-in-Pydar and 2 2772 2.13 2819 2.04 St. Wenn together with the Town, North and Middle Wards of Parish of St. Columb Major

St. Enoder Parish of St. Enoder and South 2 2239 1.72 2280 1 .65 Ward of Parish of St. Columb Major

Lostwithiel Parishes of Lanlivery, Lostwithiel 2 2650 2.03 2720 1.97 and Luxulyan * f r *

Fowey Existing Ward 11 together with 3 4208 3.23 4402 •' 3.19 the eastern part of Commission's Tywardreath Ward

Rialton As in Commission's Draft Proposals 3 3929 3.01 4200 t 3.04

Edgcumbe As in Commission's Draft Proposals 3 3553 2.72 3846 2.78

Gannel As in Commission's Draft Proposals 3 3709 2.84 3814 2.76

Poltair As in Commission^ Draft Proposals 3 4073 3.12 4270 3.09 '

Treverbyn As in Borough Council's Draft Scheme 3 3564 2.73 3730 2.70

Trevarna As in Commission's Draft Proposals 3 4230 3.24 4459 /• 3.25 ;

Crinnis As proposed by Councillor Goddard 2 2782 2.13 3248 / 2.35

St. Blaise As proposed by Councillor Goddard 3 3500 2.68 3948 / 2.86

43 56071 42.97 59493 43.09

Average number of electoi"s per councillo]r 1976 - 1304, 1980 - 1382 i

Note: The increase in the 1980 electorate in the foregoing table when compared with the Commission's figures results from the revised estimates of the Borough Council for the Crinnis and Tywardreath Wards in their Draft Scheme and for the Parishes of Grampound (+70) and St. Ewe (+340) SCHEDULE 2

BOROUGH OF RESTORMEL: NAMES OF PROPOSED WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

NAME OF WARD NO. OF COUNCILLORS

Crinnis

Edgcumbe

Fowey

Gannel

Lostwithiel

Mevagissey

Poltair

Rialton

Rock

St Blaise

St Columb

St Enoder

St Ewe

St Mewan

St Stephen-in-Brannel

Trevarna

Treverbyn

Tywardreath SCHEDULE 3

BOROUGH OF RESTORMEL DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED WARD BOUNDARIES

NOTE: Where the boundary is described as following a road, railway, river, canal or similar feature, it should be deemed to follow the centre line of the feature unless otherwise stated.

GANNEL WARD

Commencing at the point where the southwestern boundary of the Borough meets the northwestern boundary of the Borough (being Mean Low Water), thence generally northeastwards along said northwestern boundary to a point, being due north of National Grid ref: SW 8l5556l979i being a point on the access road to the west of the Great Western Hotel, thence due southwards to and south-eastwards along said access road to Cliff Road, thence wouthwestwards along said road, Berry Road and the road known as Mount Wise to Mayfield

Road, thence southeastwards along said road to Mayfield Crescent, thence southwestwards along said crescent to a point opposite the western boundary of No 22 Mayfield Crescent, thence southwestwards along said western boundary and eastwards along the'southern boundary of said property to the unnamed road leading to Trenarth Road, thence southwards along said unnamed i road and Trenarth Road to Hawkins Road, thence westwards along said road and Chynance Drive to Trembath Crescent, thence southwestwards, south- eastwards and southwards along said crescent and in prolongation thereof to "the northern boundary of Parcel No 1093 as shown on OS 1:2500 SIM

Microfilm (A1) SW 8160, date of publication 19?8, thence westwards along said northern boundary and southwards along the western boundary of said parcel and the western boundary of the property known as Cheviot to

Gannel Road, thence due southwards to the River Gannel, thence northeast- wards and generally southeastwards along said river to the southwestern boundary of the Borough, thence generally westwards and northwestwards along said southwestern boundary to the point of commencement. 2.

EDGCUMBB WARD

Commencing at the point where the southwestern boundary of the Borough meets the eastern boundary of Gannel Ward, thence northwestwards and northeastwards along said eastern boundary to "the northwestern boundary of the Borough

(being Mean Low Water), thence northeastwards along said northeastern boundary to a point being on a line running northwestwards from the north- western corner of the Hotel Savoia and passing through NG Ref SW 8216062500, thence southeastwards along said line to Road, thence south- wards along said road to Henver Road, thence southeastwards and eastwards along said road to Road, thence southwards along said road to a point opposite the southern boundary of Parcel No 8100, as shown on OS

1:2500 Microfilm SW 8260 (A), date of publication 1967, thence westwards to and along said southern boundary to the eastern boundary of Parcel No

7000, thence southwards along said eastern boundary and westwards along the southern boundary of said parcel to the eastern boundary of Parcel No ^100, thence southwards along said boundary and the eastern boundary of Parcel

No 5182 and in prolongation thereof to the Par to Newquay railway, thence northwestwards along said railway to the dismantled railway, thence south- wards along said railway to Treloggan Road, thence southeastwards along

said road to the western boundary of Golan CP, thence generally southwest- wards along said CP boundary to the point of commencement.

RIALTON WARD

The Parish of Golan and that area bounded by a line commencing at the point where the northeastern boundary of Edgcumbe Ward meets the northwestern boundary of the Borough (being Mean Low Water), thence northeastwards along

said northwestern boundary to the southwestern boundary of Mawgan-in-Pydar

CP, thence eastwards and southwards along said CP boundary to the western 3- boundary of Golan CP, thence generally southwards and westwards along said western boundary to the eastern boundary of Edgcumbe Ward, thence generally northwards along said eastern boundary and northwestwards along the north- eastern boundary of said ward to the point of commencement.

TREVERBYN WARD

Commencing at the point where the eastern boundary of St Stephen-in-Brannel

CP meets the southeastern boundary of Roche CP, thence generally north- eastwards along said southeastern boundary to the southwestern boundary of

Luxulyan CP, thence southeastwards along said southwestern boundary to

Bodelva Road, thence southwards along said road to the track that leads to the north of China Clay Works, thence southwestwards and northwest- wards along said track to its westernmost end, thence southwestwards in a straight line to the northeastern corner of Parcel No 6900t. as shown on

OS 1:2500 Microfilm (A) SX C&55, date of publication 1970, thence south- wards along the eastern boundary of said parcel, continuing on OS 1:2500

Microfilm (A) SX OV?^, date of publication 1970, and westwards and north- westwards along the southern and western boundaries of said parcel to a point at Nat Grid Reference SX 0^6105^935 thence due westwards.from said point to the unnamed road that leads from Vounder Farm, southwestwards, to , thence northwestwards and southwestwards along said road to the unnamed road leading to Trethurgy, thence westwards along said road to a point opposite the northern boundary of 'Garker China Clay Works

(disused), thence southwestwards to and generally westwards along said northern boundary to the Trethurgy to St Austell road, thence southwest- wards along said road to Menear Road, thence southwards along said road to Phernyssick Road, thence northwestwards along said road to

Road, thence southwestwards along said road to Treverbyn Road, thence northwards along said road to the track leading from southwest of No 71 Treverbyn Road to the property known as Carwollen, thence northwestwards along said track to a point opposite the northeastern boundary of Parcel

No 8523, as shown on OS 1:2500 Microfilm (A) SX 01^4, date of publication

1971i thence northwestwards to and along said northeastern boundary to

Mount Stamper Road, thence southwestwards along said road to the path that leads northwards to the China Clay Dry (disused), thence northwards along said path to the .track leading southwestwards to Road, thence south- westwards along said track to said road, thence southwestwards along said road to the Truro to St Austell Railway at Viaduct, thence west- wards along said railway to the northeastern boundary of St Mewan CP, thence northwestwards and southwestwards along said northeastern boundary to the eastern boundary of St Stephen-in-Brannel CP, thence northeastwards along said eastern boundary to the point of commencement.

ST BLAISE WAPJ)

Commencing at the point where the southeastern boundary of Treverbyn Ward meets the southern boundary of Luxulyan CP, thence eastwards along said CP boundary to the unnamed river flowing southwards from St Bl'azey Bridge to

Par Sands, thence southwards along said river to the Normal Tidal Limit, thence eastwards, southeastwards and southwestwards along Mean High Water to the southern boundary of the Borough, being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwestwards along said southern boundary to a point due south of the unnamed stream flowing southwards to the east of Crinnis Beach, thence due north to and generally northwards along said stream to its

issues, thence due north from said issues to the path and track running northeastwards towards Merthen Farm, thence northeastwards along said path and track to the unnamed road running generally northwards to Par Moor Road 5-

(A3082), thence northwards, westwards and northeastwards along said unnamed road to said Par Moor Road (A3082) thence westwards and northwestwards along said road to St Austell Road, thence southwestwards along said road to the unnamed road leading northwestwards to Tregrehan Mills, thence north- westwards along said unnamed road to the unnamed road leading northeast- wards to , thence northeastwards along said unnamed road to the unnamed road running northwestwards past Higher Tregreham Farm, thence northwestwards along said unnamed road and continuing northwestwards along the northeastern boundaries of Parcel Nos 5325, 5^9 and 5269) as shown on

OS 1:2500 microfilm (A) SX 0^5^, date of publication 1970, to the northern boundary of Parcel No 5973» thence northeastwards along said northern boundary to the western boundary of Parcel No 6482, thence southwards along said western boundary and northeastwards and northwards along the southern and eastern boundaries of said parcel and the western boundary of Parcel

No 0006 to the southeastern boundary of Treverbyn Ward,'thence generally northeastwards along said southeastern boundary to the point of commencement.

CRINNIS WARD •

Commencing at the point where the southeastern boundary of Treverbyn Ward meets the western boundary of St Blaise Ward, thence generally southeast- wards along said western boundary to the southern boundary of the Borough, being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwestwards and southwards along said Borough boundary to a point at Phoebe's Point, being on a line running northeastwards from NG Ref: SX'02930^9763, on the northern boundary of the property known as Castle Gotha, and passing through NG Ref: SX 03300^9838, thence southwestwards along said line to said northern boundary, thence northwestwards and southwestwards along the unnamed road leading to the road u running northwards between Pentewan and igher Porthpean, thence northwards 6. along the said road and Porthpean Road to Polmear Road, thence northeast- wards along said road and continuing northeastwards in a straight line across the roundabout to and eastwards along Holmbush Road (AJ590) to

Daniels Lane, thence northwards along said lane to Bucklers Lane, thence northwestwards along said lane, and continuing northwestwards along Brockstone

Road to Menear Road, thence northwards along said road to the southeastern boundary of Treverbyn Ward, thence northwards and eastwards along said southeastern boundary to the point of commencement.

POLTAIR WARD

Commencing at the point where the southern boundary of Treverbyn Ward meets the western boundary of Crinnis Ward, thence southeastwards along said western boundary to Bethel Road, thence southwestwards along said road, the roads known as Sandy Hill,Pol kyth Road and Road to High Cross Street, thence northwestwards and southwestwards along said street to Church Street, thence westwards and northwestwards along said street to Fore Street, thence southwestwards and northwestwards along said street and continuing northwest- wards and northwards along Bodmin Road to the southern boundary of Treverbyn

Ward at Trenance Viaduct, thence generally northeastwards and southeastwards along said southern boundary to the point of commencement.

TREVARNA WARD

Commencing at the point where the southern boundary of Pottair Ward meets the western boundary of Crinnis Ward, thence southwards, westwards and southwards along said western boundary to Tregorrick Road, thence westwards along said road to Pentewan Road, thence northwards along said road, crossing the roundabout in a straight line to South Street, thence northwards along said street to Moorland Road, thence northwestwards along said road to the 7- road known as West Hill, thence southwestwards along said road to Bridge * Road, thence northwestwards along said road to Truro Road, thence northeast- wards and southeastwards along said road to the southern boundary of Poltair

Ward, thence generally northeastwards along said southern boundary to the point of commencement.

TYWARDREATH WARD

Commencing at the point where the eastern boundary of St Blaise Ward meets the southern boundary of Luxulyan CP, thence northeastwards along said southern boundary and continuing northeastwards and generally southeastwards along the southern boundary of Lanlivery CP to the western boundary of

St Sampson CP, thence southwards along said western boundary to the unnamed road leading from Castledore to Fowey, thence southwards along said road to a point opposite the southern boundary of Parcel No 5^69, as shown on

OS 1:2500 Microfilm (A) SX 1055, date of publication 1970, thence westwards to and southwestwards and northwestwards along said southern boundary and generally westwards along the southern boundaries of Parcel Nos ^372,

2970, 286?, 1763, 0073 .and continuing on OS 1:2500 Microfilm (A) SX 0953, date of publication 1970, along the southern boundaries of Parcel Nos

0073, 9068, 7868 and the southeastern boundary of Parcel No 6565 to the track leading southeastwards from the property known as LowerJUampetho, thence southeastwards along said track to the northern, boundary of the ECC haul road (LA name) formerly the disused Par to Fowey railway, thence southwest- wards and generally westwards along said northern boundary to the road known as Polmear Hill, thence southeastwards along said road to and southwestwards along the unnamed road leading southwestwards, past The Ship Inn (PH), to

NG Ref SX 0860053237, thence due south to the southern boundary of the

Borough,- being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwestwards and north- westwards along said borough boundary to the eastern boundary of St Blaise Ward, thence generally northwestwards along said eastern boundary to the point of commencement.

FOWEY WARD

The Parish of St Sampson and that area bounded by a line commencing at the point where the eastern boundary of Tywardreath Ward meets the southern boundary of St Sampson CP, thence northeastwards and southeastwards along' said CP boundary to the eastern boundary of the Borough, thence generally southwards along said borough boundary to the southern boundary .of the Borough, being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwestwards and northwards along said southern boundary to the eastern boundary of Tywardreath Ward, thence northwards, generally eastwards and northwards along said eastern boundary to the point of commencement.

MEVAGISSEY WARD

The Parishes of St Goran, , and that area bounded by a line commencing at the point where the northeastern boundary of St Goran CP meets the eastern boundary of St Ewe CP, thence generally northwards along said eastern boundary to the unnamed road leading southeastwards, past Peruppa

Farm, to Mevagissey, thence southeast wards along said unnamed road to the

B3273 road, thence northeastwards, eastwards and northeastwards along said road to a point in line with the path leading eastwards to Portgiskey, thence eastwards to and along said path to its northeasternmost point at NG Ref

SX 01710^6^53? thence due east from said point to the southern boundary of the Borough, being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwards and southeast- wards along said southern boundary to the northeastern boundary of St Goran

CP, thence generally northwestwards along said CP boundary to the point of commencement. 9-

ST EWE WARD

The Parishes of Creed, Grampound, St Ewe, and that area bounded by a line commencing at the point where the northeastern boundary of Mevagissey Ward meets the eastern boundary of St Ewe CP, thence generally northwards along said CP boundary to the unnamed road leading from Little Polgooth to London

Apprentice, thence northeastwards and eastwards along said road to the B3273 road, thence northeastwards along said road to the southern boundary of

Trevarna Ward, thence- southeastwards and eastwards along'said southern boundary to the western boundary of Crinnis Ward, thence southwards along said western boundary and generally eastwards along the southern boundary of said ward to the southern boundary of the Borough, being Mean Low Water, thence generally southwards and southwestwards along said Borough boundary to the northeast boundary of Mevagissey Word) thence westwards and northwestwards along said northeastern boundary to the point of commencement.

ST MEWAN WARD

The Parish of St Mewan and that area bounded by a line commencing at the point where the northern boundary of St Ewe CP meets the eastern boundary of St Mewan

CP, thence generally northwards along said eastern CP boundary to the southern boundary of Treverbyn Ward, thence eastwards .along said southern boundary to the western boundary of Poltair Ward, thence generally southwards along said western boundary and the western boundary of Trevarna Ward to the northern boundary of St Ewe Ward, thence southwestwards and northwestwards along said northern boundary to the point of commencement. 10.

LOSTWITHIEL WARD

The Parishes of Lanlivery Lostwithiel Luxulyan

ST COLUMB WARD

The North,- Middle and Town Wards of the Parish of St Columb Major and the Parishes^ of Mawgan-in-Pydar

ST ENODER WARD

The South Ward of the Parish of St Columb Major and the Parish of St Enoder

ST STEPHEN-IN-BRANNEL WAPJ)

The Parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel

ROCK WARD

The Parishes of Roche St Dennis