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Local residents R submissions to the Hull City Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents with surnames beginning with R. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan From: Chris Randall Sent: 01 March 2017 19:00 To: reviews Subject: North Hull and Orchard Park Attachments: University and Orchard Park.png Local Government Boundary Commission BY EMAIL Dear Boundary Commission, My name is Christine Randall and I live at in Hull. I’m writing with regard to your proposed ward boundary changes. I live o , which along with 21st Avenue is one of the long “numbered avenues” which are a characteristic feature of the North Hull Estate. At the moment these avenues, and the numbered avenues that link them both, are split at Ellerburn Avenue with the western section in Orchard Park ward and the eastern section where I live in University Ward. Your proposed changes swap this round, so that my end is in Orchard Park and the other end is in University. I don’t see any need to make this switch around. It serves no purpose as the same number of electors will be in the ward either way. If you are going to leave these streets cut down the middle at Ellerburn Avenue, leave them the way they currently are, not the way they are in your draft proposals. If you are looking for ways to improve the current ward boundaries, I attach an image with my suggestion. If you did what I’ve attached, you would get all of the North Hull Estate, and Orchard Park Estate, within one ward, with the exception of the small section around 1st Avenue between the drain and Beverley Road. However this is already a separate section of the estate with its own distinct identity and looks much more out onto Beverley Road than it does inwards towards the estate. Importantly long numbered avenues like 5th and 21st would all be in the same ward. Endike Lane would make a very clear and coherent boundary and be easily understood. People in the Tudor Drive and The Queesnway area do not associate with Orchard Park and would not like to be part of an Orchard Park ward, and they are going to be moved between wards anyway so either way it will be a disruption for them but better put them in a Beverley Road‐facing ward along with the 1st Avenue area and the playing fields immediately to the south, which they use. But more importantly, doing it this way means that all of North Hull and Orchard Park can be in one ward. You could call this ward “Barmston & Inglemire” as the Barmston drain would run through it north‐south and Inglemire Lane would run through the middle of it east‐west. Alternatively you could call it “Barmston & University” because of the University campus. If you feel you cannot do what I’ve suggested then at least leave the ward as it is on its current boundaries, without your proposed changes. With best wishes, Christine E Randall (Mrs) 1 Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan From: Chris Randall Sent: 05 March 2017 13:19 To: reviews Subject: North Hull and Orchard Park Review Dear Boundary Review, I live on and lived in on Orchard Park when the estate was first built. I help the Endike Community Care Association which runs off Endike Lane and covers North Hull / Orchard Park. I was a councillor for University Ward 2002-2010. I think the map for Orchard Park and North Hull is wrong. You have a chance to keep all of 5th and 21st Avenue in one ward rather than cutting hem in half at Ellerburn Avenue. Put the boundary down Endike Lane then up the Beverley & Barmston drain. It makes much more sense as the “Green Corridor” that got put in down the drain banks and includes Princess Elizabeth and the new park behind Endike Primary will all be in one ward, along with the green walkway that got opened up to replace the green space lost when the school was built on the Princess Elizabeth Playing Fields. People on Tudor Drive and The Queensway have more in common with people living at the Beverley Road ends of Endike and Inglemire than they do with people over the drain in Orchard Park. This would make a much more sensible ward where people have more in common. It would mean virtually all of the North Hull Estate and all of Orchard Park could be in the same ward and wouldn’t split the numbered avenues down Ellerburn. The boundary lines would be much clearer and easier to understand. Chris Randall CR Reply all 1 I'm emailing in response to your proposed new council ward boundaries for Hull City Council. I do not agree with the changes you are proposing to make around Drypool ward and Garden Village. They do not make sense for our community. I have lived in the Garden Village area for over thirty years. My children went to Mersey Primary School and I, along with many of my friends in Garden Village, use the Buckingham Club on Buckingham Street. The proposed boundary changes put both the school and the club in a different ward to Garden Village. This does not make sense. Mersey Primary is our local school, as much as it is for people in Derwent, Brecon and Buckingham Streets. We are one community, who use the same shops and share the same schools, facilities and issues. I feel strongly that Garden Village should remain in Drypool ward and not be moved into Holderness ward. The proposed boundary is not logical and cuts a wiggly line through the middle of our community. A much better solution would be to leave the boundary where it currently is between the two wards (along Chamberlain Road and between Laburnum Avenue and Westcott Street). 1 City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Louise Robinson-Jordan E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: I categorically do not agree with an changes,I bought a house which came with a Kingswood price tag so would not want to be changed to Any Carr! If I wanted to purchase a home on Bransholme I would have done and for half the price. Changing the name of the area would reduce the value of my home, especially if I decided to sell it 'WILL YOU PAY THE DIFFERENCE I WOULD LOSE?' What is the valid reason for even possibly changing? Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded Hi there, I’m a resident in Hull and was a councillor for Pickering Ward in west Hull between 2007 and 2011. My husband mentioned the ward boundary review to me and having read your report I wanted to give you a bit of feedback from me! If changes have to be made, I think what you’ve done with west Hull and Pickering in particular is spot on. The Gipsyville estate really should be in one ward – it was the focus of a big regeneration scheme all through the 2000s. Council Avenue runs through the middle of the estate linking the two halves on either side of Askew Avenue together. The railway line is a much better eastern boundary for Pickering ward. I read that the Labour Party suggested that the Shires Streets south of Hessle Road have more in common with the Newington / St Andrews area than Pickering. On balance I’d agree – both in housing type, age of properties and profile of people living there, they’re much more like the streets off Hawthorne Avenue and St George’s Road than they are people in Summergroves Way or even on the Gipsyville estate. There are all sorts of issues to do with quality of rented housing, waste management and anti‐social behaviour etc which are much more similar to other areas with a high volume of privately rented, high turnover terraced housing. That’s why they fit much better with the Newington / St Andrews area than with Pickering. As for the rest of the west area, there really is no choice but to extend Derringham south to make up the numbers (unless you crossed the railway line, which would be absolutely nuts!) and therefore add some of Newington into Boothferry. For what it’s worth I think the bit of Boothferry you’ve put in Derringham makes sense as it includes all of Wold Road into Derringham, I think the area you’ve chosen to take from Newington into Boothferry is also very sensible – it’s similar types of housing to Roslyn Road, Cardigan Road etc along Anlaby Road which has a much more suburban than city centre feel, so it fits better with Boothferry than with Newington in any case. I also live in Avenue ward, and think you’ve done the right thing in keeping where I live more or less as it is now. There isn’t a sensible way to cut it up and the railway lines make very nice boundaries. So top marks from me, guys – I genuinely think you’ve got the best possible way of sorting it out to balance out the number of voters in these four wards. I’d keep all of them as they are! All the best, Sarita Robinson 1 .