Local Resident Submissions to the East Devon District Council Electoral Review
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Local resident submissions to the East Devon District Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. East Devon District Personal Details: Name: Raymond Bloxham E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: The electorate forecast for Broadclyst Ward which includes the new town of Cranbrook is, I believe, underestimated. The town is planned to have 8500 homes by 2031 which would provide an estimated electorate of around 17000 adults. Add to that the other parishes in the ward (which have around 5000 electorate) and the ward will be around 20-22000. But the key issue for the district is how many of the electorate should be represented by a district councillor. My view is that currently the number is too low and the number of councillors could be reduced overall to around 30 for the district. Exmouth with some 15 councillors in 5 wards has too many and could easily be reduced. Going back to Broadclyst - the other question is whether the current ward should be further split into wards - possibly with three or four wards - 2 in the town of Cranbrook with the rural area either one or two wards. The wards should also avoid splitting parishes (e.g. Raleigh ward is part Woodbury parish and part East Budleigh and Bicton parish as well as Colaton Raleigh and Otterton). Ward boundaries should be consistent with Parish and County boundaries to provide for more coordinated working between the three tier reopresentatives. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded East Devon District Personal Details: Name: Barry Coveney E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: N/A Comment text: Dear Sir, I live in Chardstock Parish in East Devon District. We are currently part of the Yarty Ward of East Devon District Council. I understand that this ward is proposed to be deleted and a new ward, called Whimple and Newbridges and comprising all the bits and pieces of parishes that can't be made to fit anywhere else under the new arrangements, to be substituted. This makes no sense beyond apparent bureaucratic tidiness. As a working model for local democracy it is, I am afraid, a non-starter. Yarty Ward and its predecessors have always comprised parishes related to each other and within reach of Axminster, our nearest town of any size. Any new ward must surely have some kind of geographical coherence and relate to its own nearest larger centre, which, in turn, conditions many of the services it receives and the decisions taken that affect it (like those relating to public transport, medical services, retail outlets and the other local facilities upon which small communities depend). Were this proposal to be implemented, it would be nigh on impossible to find a Ward Member with sufficient knowledge of each of so disparate a hotchpotch of parishes, their people and Parish Councils, to be able to represent their interests with any kind of credibility, detailed knowledge or enthusiasm. Local democracy would be further diminished in the name of administrative convenience. I doubt this is your real intention. So, I would ask you to re-examine the proposal through the lens of practical, realistic, democratic government and come up with an alternative that provides for coherent representation in the real world. It's hard enough getting any sense out of the District Council as it is. Fragmentation of the kind proposed will only increase the general propensity to incoherent policy-making based on insufficient local knowledge. Local services are already being decimated and we need a Member who is able and willing to bring proper detailed knowledge to bear on the decision-taking process, if only to ensure that we get a fair crack of the whip, if you will. This proposal will have the opposite effect. Small, rural parishes have long been the poor relations in national and local politics. Many of them have been needlessly damaged in the last few years by, for example, overly generalising central Town and Country planning policy and by the reckless cutting of rural local government funding. I see little justification for making an already bad situation worse. Please think again. Thank you for your attention. Yours sincerely, Barry Coveney (Mr.) Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded East Devon District Personal Details: Name: Helen Dimond E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I would suggest that Exe Valley ward is moved into Mid Devon district where it has a more natural affinity. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded East Devon District Personal Details: Name: Matthew Gardner E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: Fairmile should not be split between Whimple Ward and OSM Rural. All should be part of OSM Rural. It is difficult as a community to come together and try and get improvements when we are split between different areas. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded !" #$ %&%&' ( )#* +,-"./+0 (1" +23 4 5 661 0 $$ +,+ 1" . 7 Mark ... attach my initial 33-cllr scheme for East Devon district: please ack receipt; ... my 'xls' has to be checked: it is noted that the current review's spread-sheet is updated now, rows 51 & 52 make good reading now; ... FER's map of 'polling districts' is welcome innovation: EDDC are to be commended, nay highly commended, for diligence; ... kind regards Peter 1 FER 2016 Devon County East Devon an administrative shire’s district This FER for East Devon district follows close behind the recent review for Devon County’s electoral divisions (EDs). ... East Devon, district of, wards used since 2001. ‘1999 # 2467 ... East Devon (electoral changes) Order 1999’ http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2467/schedule/made ... Exmouth CP (tc) had 11-pd (polling districts) covered by five (5) parish-wards (pw) currently coterminous with the district’s extant 1999 wards: and of these 2-wards can be ‘no change’ ie … Littleham ward and … Withycombe ward. ‘SI 2016 N0. 657 ... DEVON (electoral changes) Order 2016’. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/657/contents/made http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/657/schedule/1/made <8-DC> In 2017 Exmouth will have 12-pd covered by parts of 2-EDs. Extra new pd, Richmond Rd pw, in 2017 DCC elections only. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/657/article/4/made <Exmouth CP> http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/657/schedule/2/made <6-pw not 5> ... The EDDC’s ‘no change’ wards are each bold highlighted, for easy understanding design purposes, see my ‘xls’ copy. Exmouth area is to reduce from 15-members to 14 (fourteen). In 2017 Exmouth ED would cover district’s future 8-cllr, these to be in re-arranged wards of either 2 or 3 members. ... Other ‘no change’ wards inc Sidmouth Rural ward, whilst … Sidford and … Town wards would need musical chairs: so as to respect Sidmouth CP’s single member extant town warding. ... Feniton & Buckerell ward has T&H boundaries realign with your LA’s wards. Gittisham CP in Honiton_&_Tiverton CC. Also, please note, Whimple ward is constituent unit in new Whimple & Blackdowm [Hills] ED: this 2017 new ED spans 2 constituencies. Appendix – pages 11-12 A comparative schedule of 2017-EDs’ constituent unit wards: as proposed 33 (thirtythree) new wards within 8 (eight) new EDs. 1 Peter Kingswood RIBA Legend for pt-of-wards code: ‘N’ = Newbridges; ‘R’ = Raleigh; ‘Y’ = Yarty FER 2016 Devon County East Devon an administrative shire’s district East Devon WARD, 33 No proposed 2016 2022 cllr variance ==================== ======= ======= ==== ======== Exe Valley 1 BroadClyst 3 Cranbrook Town 3 Clyst Valley 1 Woodbury & Lympstone 2 Exmouth Brixington 2 Exmouth Halsdon 3 Exmouth Town 3 Exmouth Withyham R’gh 3 Exmouth littleham 3 Budleigh Salterton 2 Ottery St.Mary West 1 Ottery St.Mary East 3 Newton Poppleford & Harpford 1 Raleigh 1 Sidmouth CP: 5-wards 6 Feniton & Buckerell 1 Honiton St.Michael’s 3 Honiton St Paul’s 2 Coly Valley 2 Beer & Branscombe 1 Seaton 3 Axminster Rural 2 Axminster town 2 Trinity 1 Whimple 1 Tale Vale 1 Dunkerswell 1 Blackdown 2 60 2 Peter Kingswood RIBA Legend for pt-of-wards code: ‘N’ = Newbridges; ‘R’ = Raleigh; ‘Y’ = Yarty FER 2016 Devon County East Devon an administrative shire’s district Broadclyst with Cranbrook WARD, as proposed 2016 2022 cllr variance =================== ======= ======= ==== ======== Exe Valley 1917 1929 1 -8%(806%) the extant Exe Valley ward is -20% INSERT [Broadclyst] Poltimore CP. * ; * ; * . Suggest retains extant name Exe Valley ward. BroadClyst 3806 6478 3 3% (%) the extant Broadclyst ward is 222% OMIT [Broadclyst] Poltimore CP, Cranbrook CP, & Clyst St Lawrence CP, and Clyst Hydon CP. * ; * ; * . Suggest retains extant name BroadClyst ward. 6395 / 13 492 Cranbrook Town 2023 6440 3 2% (232%) INSERT [Broadclyst] Cranbrook CP. * ; * new CP was created in April 2016; * . Suggest new name to be Cranbrook Town ward. Clyst Valley 1708 2082 1 -1%(026%) the extant Clyst Valley ward is 13% OMIT AQ [Clyst Valley] Farringdon CP * * * Sowton CP & St George CP are ‘grouped parish council’. Suggest retains extant name Clyst Valley ward. ... 3 Peter Kingswood RIBA Legend for pt-of-wards code: ‘N’ = Newbridges; ‘R’ = Raleigh; ‘Y’ = Yarty FER 2016 Devon County East Devon an administrative shire’s district Exmouth & environs WARD, as proposed 2016 2022 cllr variance =================== ======= ======= ==== ======== Woodbury & Lympstone 4243 4489 2 7% (%) the extant W_&_L ward is -5% INSERT [W_&_L] (Woodbury CP) Salterton p.w. Suggest retain name Woodbury & Lympstone ward. Exmouth Brixington 3946 4051 2 -3% the extant Exmouth Brixington ward is -15% OMIT [Exmouth] AL2 (South). Exmouth Halsdon 2786 5530 3 -12% * Residential development forecast: >= 1700-units; Exmouth Town 6518 6633 3 5% ADD [Exmouth] AL2 (South). Ex’th Withycombe Raleigh 5732 5832 3 -7% (%) the extant Withycombe Raleigh ward is -7% NO CHANGE ie continuity of usage.