Local Resident Submissions to the Sheffield District Council Electoral Review
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Local resident submissions to the Sheffield District Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents. 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 Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Sheffield District Personal Details: Name: lee adams E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: i believe my road will be in Broomhill and Botanicals , yet this name does not relate to our area at all, we do not identify with either names/communities, we are in crookesmoor and relate more to Walkley or crookes being similar areas in demography , g history etc etc In addition though probably too ,late i would support less elected members per ward and overall, i have some understanding of work load of elected members and also their cost, whilst wishing not to compromise democracy i think fewer better paid members would improve things few people know their elected member at present or ever contact them , they need to be more visible as does their work, fewer higher profile people would assist . Work load and how they work needs to be well analysed so that members can do a better democratic job Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4375 05/01/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Sheffield District Personal Details: Name: Chris Batchelor E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I wish to propose changing the name of Crookes Ward to Crosspool & Crookes, This would better reflect that the ward is made up of 2 distinct communities. There are, for example, separate Community Forums. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4251 17/11/2014 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Sheffield District Personal Details: Name: Alan Deadman E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: The Sharrow Festival and Fringe Comment text: The area between Queens Rd, Bramall Lane, Hill Street and the Inner Ring Ring Road is a crucial part of Sharrow and Nether Edge, for the reasons explained in the uploaded document and cutting it off in this way and assigning it to a Park and Arbourthorne, a ward across a dual carriageway and a railway line, with a completely different demographic and set of priorities would break up one of the most distinctive wards in the country/ Uploaded Documents: Download https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4383 08/01/2015 I am writing to protest against your proposal to split up the neighbourhood we know as Sharrow and assign the Highfield area and the streets from Highfield towards the Inner Ring Road to the Park and Arbourthorne Ward. I have worked in the Sharrow neighbourhood for over 30 years, first as an adult education lecturer and subsequently as chair of the Sharrow Community Forum and chair of the group of volunteers who organise the Sharrow Festival, a free annual multi-cultural festival which attracts 6000 people every year. Sharrow is known throughout the country as a vibrant neighbourhood, made up of many BME cultures (84 languages spoken at the last count), a significant proportion of students and a large creative community drawn there by the affordability of property and the cultural diversity. A key element in this is the large number of older industrial buildings, originally associated with the metal trades of Sheffield, all of which lie within the area you propose to separate off. In these buildings are musicians studios, record labels, artists workshops, small film companies and other creative enterprises, working alongside the remnants of smallscale manfacturing. One building alone (Stag Works) has housed a number of famous Sheffield bands including Deff Leppard, The Arctic Monkeys and Reverend and The Makers. It was on the strength of the creative activities and the industrial heritage that the John Street Triangle Conservation Area was designated around 15 years ago. This back street creativity fuels the pubs along the London Rd, the musical instrument shop and the large number of IT shops also on London Road. The Sharrow Festival, which includes a two week Fringe Festival and the Sharrow Lantern Carnival are the outward expressions of this creativity: events where the innovation and artistry hatched in the old industrial 'works' are performed and displayed for the benefit of the whole community. Sharrow is a genuine community, somewhere where many of the most exciting ideas of social inclusion and interaction are demonstrated. The three councillors who represent this area play an active role in the life of Sharrow, whether it be help with funding applications to rescue some of the industrial buildings (Portland Works in particular) or getting their hands dirty recycling rubbish at the Sharrow Festival. It makes no sense except from a remote bureaucratic perspective to cut out the creative heart of Sharrow and assign it to councillors responsible for a distant ward (across a railway line and a dual carriageway) which has a totally different demographic and set of priorities, based around a mostly white working class community with a high rate of occupancy in social housing. I urge you to go think again. Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Sheffield District Personal Details: Name: Gordon Ferguson E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 8: Students are best represented with the University in Broomhill and Botanicals 2: Encliffe Park is essentailly an urban park, and so may be better represented in the more urban ward of Broomhill and Botaniclas than in Fulwood or Ecclesall. 6: Psalter Lane has more affinity with Nether Edge than with Broomhill and Botanticals Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 2: Encliffe Park is essentailly an urban park, and Annotation 6: Psalter Lane has more affinity with Nether Edge Annotation 8: Students are best represented with the University Comment text: Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4116 24/10/2014 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Sheffield District Personal Details: Name: Stephen George E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: Democracy is not just about numbers: it is also about a sense of community. Lower Bradway is historically an integral part of the neighbourhood of Bradway. It would only involve moving a small number of people to redraw the boundary so that the remainder of Bradway Road, Elwood Road, Fox Lane, Edmund Avenue and Edmund Close are included in Dore & Totley Ward along with the rest of Bradway, as proposed to the Boundary Commission by Sheffield City Council. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4305 17/12/2014 Sheffield City Council 2013-2016 Ward Review Response to LGBR Draft Ward Boundaries J.G.Harston December 2014 All details may be made publically available Contents 1. Introduction 2. Recommended changes to LGBC recommended boundaries 2.1 Boundary between Walkley and Broomhill at Roebuck Road 2.2 Boundary between Crookes and Fulwood at Carsick Hill top 2.3 Boundary between Fulwood and Ecclesall at High Storrs 2.4 Boundary between Dore & Totley and Ecclesall at Ecclesall Woods 2.5 Boundary between Dore & Totley and Ecclesall at Whirlow Hall 2.6 Boundary between Ecclesall and Nether Edge at Brincliffe Edge 2.7 Boundary between Arbourthorne and Gleadless Valley at Heeley Green 2.8 Boundary between Richmond and Woodhouse 2.9 Boundary between Burngreave and Southey Green 3. Ward names 4. Issues raised by other respondants 5. Ward summary 6. About the author 7. Maps of recommended changes 1. Introduction 1.1 The Boundary Commission have published their draft new ward boundary for the Sheffield City Council. I have participated in Sheffield City Council’s consultations on their initial submission to the Commission, and well as their response to the Commission’s draft recommendations. 1.2 I believe that overall the Commission’s draft wards will work well, and in my repsonse I will recommend some minor changes to small parts of boundaries where I believe it would better reflect the local geopgraphy, local communities and better balance electorate numbers. I have submitted most of these comments to the City Council as part of their consultation. Attached to this submission are maps of those wards where I recommend changes. 2.1 Boundary between Walkley and Broomhill at Roebuck Road 2.11 The proposed boundary runs along the centre of Roebuck Road, and then behind the houses on one side of Sydney Road. This proposed boundary has some inconstancies between centre-road and behind-road running, as well as cutting off this “Roebuck Triangle” area from Barber Road. Ideally, the whole of Sydney Road, Burns Road and Roebuck Road should be in the same ward. 2.12 Option A: The “Roebuck Triangle” is more connected to the Barber Road area to its south than it is to the Springvale Road/Ashberry Road area to its north. All the connecting roads – Sydney Road, Burns Road and Crookesmoor Road – connect it to the Barber Road area, and there are some properties on Roebuck Road that have rear entrances accessed from Katie Place and Barber Place, short roads that run off Barber Road. The “Roebuck Triangle” should be in Broomhill Ward along with Barber Road. This is shown as the line A-A on map 1. Doing this would also have a positive impact on the electoral balance in Broomhill: Ward LGBC Proposal LGBC Variance JGH Proposal JGH Varience Broomhill 13,995 -5.7% 14,365 -3.2% Walkley 14,573 -1.9% 14,203 -4.3% 2.13 Option B: If not transfering the whole of the “Roebuck Triangle”, a clearer on the ground than the LGBR proposal would either follow the whole of the centre of the road, or run behind houses for its whole length.