Local Residents Submissions to the North Somerset Council Electoral Review
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Local Residents submissions to the North Somerset Council electoral review This PDF document contains 24 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. Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 27 March 2014 10:42 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: LGBCE Review North Somerset From: Michael Tuckwell Sent: 26 March 2014 18:06 To: Reviews@ Subject: LGBCE Review North Somerset Dear Reviewers I live in Easton in Gordano and support the proposals put forward by Don Davies, our local Independent Councillor. Pill and Easton in Gordano have a strong history and sense of community. Having one member to represent us on the council will be important. For our villages to be split would be madness and not afford us the possibility of proper democratic representation at a local level. I hope you will take note of the views and support the proposal Donald Davies has made known to you. I trust that our views will be properly heard ensuring that we will be represented in the most democratic and appropriate way in the future. Michael Tuckwell 149 Cooper, Mark From: Bowden, Tim Sent: 04 April 2014 14:17 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Wraxall and Failand boundary Tim Bowden Review Manager Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House 76-86 Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Tel: 020 7664 8514 www.lgbce.org.uk It would help us if you would take a few minutes to answer a few questions about your experience of how we dealt with you. How are we doing? - Click on this link to give us your views From: Guy Turner Sent: 04 April 2014 14:08 To: Reviews@ Subject: Wraxall and Failand boundary I would like to express my rejection of Map B and support your original suggestion of Map A. Your proposal divides, Wraxall & Failand with Long Ashton. We would lose the input of our current North Somerset Councillors who have much experience and affinity with our parish. Instead 4 unfamilar Councillors from 2 wards could attend our meetings and would have to be briefed about all the issues affecting our parish. This would significantly impair good local government in our parish. Kind regards 66 Cooper, Mark From: Egan, Helen Sent: 14 March 2014 10:20 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Council - Backwell area - BS48 3 Hi Mark, Please see below a submission for North Somerset. Regards, Helen From: Patricia Walker Sent: 13 March 2014 23:04 To: Reviews@ Subject: North Somerset Council - Backwell area - BS48 3 I support Map A as I think the L G Boundary Commission, whilst equalising the number of voters per Councillor, has completely neglected the common sense and equally important Boundary Commission criteria of ‘reflecting the community’ and ‘providing for effective and convenient local government’. Patricia Walker 208 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 03 April 2014 16:20 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Proposed possible changes to Electoral Ward Boundaries - Failand. From: Paivic Sent: 02 April 2014 16:59 To: Reviews@ Subject: Proposed possible changes to Electoral Ward Boundaries - Failand. Dear Sir, we are writing to express our support for the Wraxall and Failand Parish Council’s submission of May 2013 whereby the existing Ward boundaries should accord with Map A and Failand is NOT transferred to Pill & Easton‐in‐Gordano Ward and will remain in the Long Ashton Ward. Experience has shown over the years that two District Councillors have served the Parish efficiently and the recent rebuff of a proposed major development in Failand demonstrates that the democratic process has worked well and could do so in the future without major change to the Ward boundaries. Yours Faithfully, Mr & Mrs P.M.Warr, 79 From: Sent: 03 April 2014 20:42 Subject: boundary commission Just a comment - being a resident of Claverham I would like to see our village named in the ward of Yatton because we are a joint Parish Council, it is a shame Cleeve is not with us as we join together in so many church/social organisations, -Jean Watson 75 Cooper, Mark From: Egan, Helen Sent: 26 March 2014 08:48 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Electoral Ward Boundaries Hi Mark, Please see the submission below for North Somerset. Regards, Helen From: Christine Weller Sent: 22 March 2014 20:18 To: Reviews@ Subject: Electoral Ward Boundaries To whom it may concern. I write with reference to the proposed change in electoral ward boundaries. I live in the Parish of Wraxall and Failand and have previously been impressed with the way our local councillors have engaged in local issues, especially with regard to the ground on which the Granary Care Home is now built. I feel the local population would be best served by leaving the boundaries as they are and continuing to have our own local representatives who are aware of and concerned with issues relevant to this immediate area. Christine Weller This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. 161 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 25 March 2014 13:24 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Backwell Boundary Review, North Somerset From: Lucy-Jane Whitehead Sent: 24 March 2014 18:56 To: Reviews@ Subject: Backwell Boundary Review, North Somerset 24 March 2014 The Review Officer (North Somerset) Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House 76-86 Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Dear Sirs North Somerset Local Government Boundary Review – Further Consultation I am writing about the above Consultation. I am a resident of Backwell and have been for nearly 20 years. I am also a member of Backwell Residents’ Association. I am not in favour of the Commission’s latest proposal to create a new two-member Ward to be called Gordano and Wraxall as outlined on Map ‘B’ and reject it as inappropriate for the following reasons:- 1. It appears that this proposal has been driven purely by a desire to equalise the number of electors of each Councillor. 2. The Commission has ignored its other two criteria of reflecting community identity and providing for effective and convenient local government. 3. There is no natural synergy between the Parish of Backwell and the villages of the Gordano Valley. Although on the map they would appear to make a convenient grouping they are very different in character and topographically they are to a great extent divided by the high ridge of land of the Failand area and the combination would not lend itself to effective local Government. 4. Backwell is the largest community in the proposed Ward and yet would suffer a complete loss of identity if the name Gordano and Wraxall is adopted. 164 My preference would be for reverting to the previous draft proposal (Map ‘A’) with the minor variation of combining the proposed single member Wards of Backwell and Winford into a two- member Ward (including Barrow Gurney and Flax Bourton). This would have the following advantages:- 1. I believe it would better satisfy the wishes of Barrow Gurney and Flax Bourton Parishes to remain with Backwell with whom they have common interests – notably the A370 road and Stancombe Quarry which is planning to extend its activities. 2. This combination would achieve a slightly better balance of numbers of electors than the alternative proposal. 3. Both Backwell and Winford Parishes adjoin Bristol Airport and any future development of that site would be of common interest. 4. There is a consensus that being in a two-member Ward better serves the interests of all Parishes within that Ward by virtue of improved availability of Councillors during sickness or holidays etc. 5. Backwell would not suffer a loss of identity. In summary, therefore, I am strongly in favour of the creation of a Backwell and Winford Ward as outlined in Map ‘A’ with the inclusion of Barrow Gurney and Flax Bourton. Yours faithfully Lucy-Jane Whitehead 165 Cooper, Mark From: Egan, Helen Sent: 14 March 2014 10:14 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: boundary changes for Leighwoods BS8 Hi Mark, Please see below a submission for North Somerset. Regards, Helen From: Janet Wigley Sent: 13 March 2014 20:51 To: Reviews@ Subject: boundary changes for Leighwoods BS8 Dear Sirs We wish to support the revised proposals for our area of North Somerset. We wish to be part of the 2 member Pill and Easton in Gordano ward as we feel this would best serve our local connections which lie along the A369, as our previous representations have stated. Leigh Woods, about 270 households, would like to stay part of the Easton in Gordano ward as Leigh Woods is primarily affected by the A369 and the Clifton Suspension Bridge, concerns more closely allied with Abbots Leigh, Portbury and Easton in Gordano than Long Ashton. The revised proposals ensure we stay as nearly as possible the same as present, even with the reduced number of Councillors, ie part of the Easton in Gordano ward. Ashton Court lies between us and Long Ashton and 209 our community is affected by the suspension bridge and A369 unlike Long Ashton. Kind regards Merlin & Janet Wigley 210 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 27 March 2014 10:43 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes ‐‐‐‐‐Original Message‐‐‐‐‐ From: sally williams Sent: 26 March 2014 15:33 To: Reviews@ Subject: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes I wish to express my concerns at the proposed revisions to the boundaries which affect Wraxall and Failand in the map "B".