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Local Resident Submissions to the North Somerset Council Electoral Review Local Resident submissions to the North Somerset Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from Local Residents with surnames K-P. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Click on the submission you would like to view. If you are not taken to that page, please scroll through the document. Local Government Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 2 North Somerset Personal Details: Name: Andrew King E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Comment text: I believe these proposed changes to the Parish boundaries of Pill, Easton in Gordano etc are wholly inappropriate.If there are changes to be made, common sense would tell you that with Portishead increasing dramatically, and cost saving exercise could easily be made there by amalgamating and expanding there. As it is, we are a small community constantly fighting for amenities in an area not only starved, but deprived of any real aid form the NS Council and this is a further kick in the teeth to demoralise a community already at rock bottom. For once, it would be nice if NS Council took a long hard look at what we don't have and redressed the balance, rather than removing our only source of fight, our Parish council. This proposal is outrageous and whoever suggested it should not only hang their heads in shame, but resign their position. https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk//node/print/informed-representation/2432 23/10/2013 Local Government Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 2 of 2 https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk//node/print/informed-representation/2432 23/10/2013 From: Nan Kirsen [ ] Sent: 11 September 2013 08:54 To: Reviews@ Subject: Local Government Review I have had more time to look at the proposals since my email last evening, also I have checked the boundaries of the proposed recommendations. Tickenham is included in the Gordano ward proposals, which also includes Easton-in- Gordano. These two areas ie; Tickenham/Easton-in-Gordano have no common boundaries but Tickenham does have common boundaries with Nailsea, Clevedon, Portbury, Failand and Long Ashton,unlike Easton-in-Gordano, whose common boundaries are Pill, Abbot's Leigh and Portbury. I find the proposal to remove Easton-in-Gordano, the Parish Council which includes Pill and Ham Green , and include it with an area with no common links absolutely incredible, unless this is just a numbers exercise. This I can fully appreciate needs to be re-appraised but it also needs to reflect local communities with common boundaries at the very least. I do hope you will take my further views into consideration. Yours faithfully, Nan Kirsen From: Nan Kirsen [ ] Sent: 10 September 2013 19:42 To: Reviews@ Subject: Local Government Reviews. I refer to the recommendation for one of the proposals in North Somerset;Pill Ward to take in Abbots Leigh and Leigh Woods. I am extremely disturbed about this proposal for many reasons and I am therefore providing a little background. Pill ward was originally called Easton-in-Gordano ward with two seats, the Parish Council was known as Easton-in-Gordano Parish Council St.George's being one ward and Pill the other. I was born and brought up here as were my parents, grandparents. etc. and all of the records held at Somerset Archives refer to the Parish Council as Easton-in-Gordano. A few years one of the new councillors decided it was more reflective of the population to refer to it as Pill Parish Council. The proposal to link Pill, Abbots Leigh and Leigh Woods in isolation would appear to be without valid reasoning, It may have worked if Easton-in-Gordano had been included to make a two member ward, this would certainly have added balance. and this combination has worked for many years. Pill is second to only Weston-Super-Mare in social deprivation with large numbers of social housing, whilst Abbots Leigh and Leigh Woods, have no social housing and most residents are professionals or white colour workers and most properties change hands in the region of 700,00-1.million pounds and more. The areas proposed could not be more "poles apart" In fact in the recent past the elected members who covered both Pill and Easton-in-Gordano worked together as the common boundary usually meant there was a joint interest. I do hope you will take my views into account. I was an elected member for Easton-in- Gordano for many years and leader of the council for your years when it became a Unitary Authority, I feel particularly strongly about this area. Nan Kirsen. Local Government Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 2 North Somerset Personal Details: Name: Bob Langton E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Comment text: I find the proposals as they stand most unacceptable, specifically in relation to the community in which I live - that is within the area covered by Pill and Easton-in-Gordano Parish Council. The Parish is an extremely integrated one with a very strong community spirit and is at present well-served by two Ward Councillors, one broadly serving the Pill and Ham green area, and the other Easton-in-Gordano, along with Abbot's Leigh and Leigh Woods. These two Councillors have found it quite possible to attend Parish Council meetings on a frequent basis and to communicate effectively with their electorates: as a result they have been effective at tackling the problems that inevitably arise, especially in relation to the services provided (or otherwise) by North Somerset Council. The existing proposals would work very strongly against this state of affairs, in particular by the creation of the so-called Gordano Valley Ward. I can see that, in an office far distant from the reality of North Somerset, this might seem like a reasonably sensible suggestion: in fact it is nothing of the sort. The area of Easton-in-Gordano has virtually no connection with the more general Gordano Valley beyond those of individual acquaintance: links with the villages of Portbury and Abbot's Leigh exist to a certain extent, and the current ward system has promoted a certain level of communication between the various parish councils. Beyond that, the village links more closely with Bristol than with, for example, Weston-in-Gordano. It is beyond belief that a single councillor could adequately serve the very disparate needs of this non- community of voters. The preferred approach of the Parish Council in the village, which I support, is to establish a single member ward covering solely the communities of Pill with Ham Green, and Easton-in-Gordano. It is recognised that in terms of numbers of voters this is larger than expected but population growth in the village is likely to be small (unless local plans are very radically changed) and so this situation would not persist for very long, and the coherence of the community would make the task of representing it eminently practical. If the Boundary Commission cannot accept this proposal (and hence run counter to the widespread popular support for it) then a two ward solution taking in the Parish itself along with Portbury, Abbot's Leigh and Leigh Woods, would be the least bad alternative. To be most effective, I would suggest that within this approach, rather than an arbitrary dividing line between the two wards being created, a single two-member ward should be created. https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk//node/print/informed-representation/2597 21/11/2013 Local Government Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 2 of 2 https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk//node/print/informed-representation/2597 21/11/2013 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 18 November 2013 09:06 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Boundary Review North Somerset From: Roy Lewis Sent: 17 November 2013 22:58 To: Reviews@ Subject: Fwd: Boundary Review North Somerset Date: 17 November 2013 19:25:34 GMT To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Boundary Review North Somerset My wife and I moved recently from a property in the Pill Ward to a new build in Ham Green that we thought was within the same Ward. Logically and geographically the house is within Pill village and our postal address confirms this. It took some three months of confused contacts with all administrative bodies and Councils to discover the Ward and parish boundary runs along the centre of Lime Tree Grove and a pocket of properties, including ours, are within Abbots Leigh, Easton in Gordano Ward. There seems to be no reason for this, other than historic accident. The consequence of this discovery was that we had to turn to another councillor for help and advice. He told us that this pocket of houses was an anomaly in his area of responsibility and it was clear in our contacts with the parish council that the same view was shared there. We had established a good relationship with the Pill councillor who was no longer able to offer advice and support. Boundary definition is, therefore, important to us. Our opinion is that the logical boundary for Pill Ward should be defined by the important link roads and geographic features which define Pill as a single community: the A369 to its junction with the M5; part of the M5 to the bridge; the River Avon; and Beggar Bush Lane as proposed but, possibly only to Blackmoor Road and the post code boundary to the Avon if the gathering objections to the inclusion of Abbots Leigh persuade change.
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