Carlisle City Council Conservative Group.
Submission on warding arrangements. RESPONSE TO THE LGBCE CONSULTATION. MAY 2018
Review of Carlisle City Council. This proposal outlines the Carlisle City Council Conservative Group response to the review of warding arrangements. Agreed by the Group, it proposes a 39 member Council, consisting of 13 three member wards.
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CONTENTS Page Number Introduction 4 Calculating our electoral variance 5 Changes to Carlisle since the 1997 review 6 Overview of our review submission 10 Brief explanation of the OC Polling District 13 Rural Ward proposals:- Ward 1 – Brampton and Fellside 15 Ward 2 – Wetheral and Corby Hill 20 Ward 3 – Longtown, Lyne and Irthington 27 Ward 4 – Dalston and Burgh 32 Urban Ward proposals:- Ward 1 – Castle 39 Ward 2 – Currock and Upperby 45 Ward 3 – Stanwix Urban and Houghton 52 Ward 4 – Belah and Kingmoor 58 Ward 5 – Harraby South and Parklands 64 Ward 6 – Botcherby and Durranhill 70 Ward 7 – Sandsfield 76 Ward 8 – Newtown and Morton Central 85 Ward 9 – Denton Holme and Morton South 91 Response to the City Council Proposal 100 Concluding Statement 104
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LIST OF APPENDICES. 1. 2016 Warding Averages 2. Copy of ‘Election by thirds’ Council Debate (page 6&7) 3. Local Plans Map (x2) (by hard copy only) 4. Maps of Bus Routes in Carlisle 5. Map of CNDR and News Report 6. News Report on Eden Bridge Closure 7. News Report on Denton Holme Flood Risk 8. Windfall Housing breakdown in the Rural Area 9. Email from the LGBCE 10. Local Plan U7 Site Map 11. Crindledyke Cycle Link Article 12. Newman School Relocation Article 13. Local Plan U4 Site Map 14. Database of All Wards (by email only) 15. Breakdown of All Polling Districts We Propose to Split 16. Map of all Urban Wards (hard copy only) 17. Map of all Rural Wards (hard copy only)
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Introduction. The Carlisle City Council Conservative Group welcomes the decision by the LGBCE to reduce the number of Councillors by 25% to 39. We appreciate that this will require all existing wards to be redrawn, and recognise that this will represent an opportunity to examine whether the existing boundaries are an appropriate reflection of how Carlisle District has developed since 1999. In addition it will examine whether the current warding levels, that are a mixture of single, two and three member wards, are suitable for the revised Council. During the current LGBCE review process, it has become clear to us that since the previous review in 1997, warding levels have developed out of kilter. This has created wards that varied by over 20% (see appendix 1). In addition the establishment of new developments such as Parklands and Windsor Way have ended up crossing the meeting points of several wards, and more importantly crossing the boundary between the unparished areas of urban Carlisle and the rural parishes around it, which is ineffective and confusing to the communities. Likewise current developments along the road network on the edge of the City have taken the urban City into the rural area, these include:- Brackenleigh (in current Dalston ward) Crindledyke (in current Stanwix Rural ward) Clover Fields (in current Dalston Ward) Greymooorhill (in current Belah ward) Windsor Way (in Stanwix Urban & Stanwix Rural) Our report seeks to propose new boundaries with evidence to underpin them. In addition our proposal seeks to meet the following three criteria:- 1. That the new pattern of wards results in each Councillor representing broadly the same number of electors as their co-Councillors.
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2. Ward patterns that reflect the communities in their interests and identities and which has identifiable boundaries. 3. Effective and convenient wards that reflect the electoral cycle of the Council. On this last point, Carlisle is a Council which elects in thirds, and who reaffirmed this through a vote by Councillors in September 2017 (see appendix 2). Therefore we have made our proposal under the guidance provided by the LGBCE that: “Will look to create a pattern of three member wards across [the] Council area. If not we can propose a mixed pattern of wards” (source: LGBCE guidance ‘How to propose a pattern of wards). The warding pattern produced needs to reflect the 2023 electorate ratio (+/- 10%) as determined by the LGBCE. For Carlisle this is 2,297 electors per Councillor. For example a ward can be undersized, but if there is upcoming residential development this can move to a lower negative (or positive) variance over the next five years. Likewise a ward with a current positive variance, but which has little residential development planned could over the next five year period decline in electoral variance. We have therefore taken into account that residential developments will occur in concentrated areas within the district rather than as an even spread (see appendix three, a copy of the Local Plan maps).
Calculating our Electoral Variance. Using the information provided by the LGBCE in 2017 the electorate of Carlisle City Council was 80,466. In 2023 the electorate is proposed to increase to 89,621. The configuration of a 39 member Council is therefore:- 2017 2023 10% fewer electors 1,856 2,067 Perfect electoral equality 2,063 2,297
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10% more electors 2,269 2,526
Therefore on the LGBCE guidance of three member wards, such a ward in 2023 would be as close to 6,891 electors as feasible, but could vary from 6,201 electors to 7,580 electors. In our proposal the wards vary by between -5.7% (Wetheral and Corby Hill) and +4.44 (Sandsfield).
Changes to Carlisle since the 1997 LGBCE review. Carlisle and the District has changed in several areas since the last review. We feel that the following issues ought to have an influence on the warding patterns across Council area: Housing Several important changes to both the Council’s planning policy and the National Planning Framework have impacted on the communities that make up the Council area. These include:- 1. Raffles Regeneration – Prior to 1999. The west of the City contained a large estate called Raffles. It was cross cut by three current Council wards (Castle, Belle Vue and Yewdale). By the late 1990’s the area had become problematic due to anti-social behaviour, an ageing housing stock and poor reputation. This meant that properties became difficult to let. The decision was taken in the early 2000’s to regenerate the area. There was a large scale relocation of tenants, and several hundred properties were levelled creating potential sites for new build, whilst a concerted effort was made to tackle the anti-social behaviour. This is explained in more detail in the Newtown and Morton Central ward proposal.
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2. Local Plan – Planning policy locally is now set by a Local Plan which will run from 2015-2030. Sites have been brought forward in most wards for planned development to meet housing targets. We have included a set of Local Plan maps in the appendices so you can see the areas being developed. By 2023 we will be at the midpoint of the Local Plan. The proposed 10,000 dwelling St Cuthbert’s Garden Village will however not have come on supply by then, so we have discounted it from our warding proposals.
Much of the housing in the Local Plan will be at sites that border the City limits, such as in land by the CNDR, or in the polling districts that are near to the motorway. This is reflected in our proposal as we feel we need to ‘move out’ the urban ward boundaries from their current city limits to reflect this change. 3. Village Boundary Limits - A subtle but far reaching change in planning policy has been the removal of the tight village boundaries that covered most of our larger rural settlements. Previously a tight settlement boundary was drawn around the villages. This made residential development outside of it more difficult, as the village only related to the area within the settlement boundary. The removal of this as part of planning policy changes meant that if there was a thematic ‘golden thread’ that could be argued for residential development, then the proposed development could be permissible. This opened up the fields that surrounded a village for potential development. An example of this in practice would be at Eden Gate in Houghton. The site lay beyond the village boundary but a relaxation of this policy allowed the site to be progressed. Public Transport In terms of public transportation, the main changes since the last review has related to the rural bus service. Over the last four years a number of local services
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that operate in the rural areas have either had a reduced schedule or have ceased as subsidies were removed. In 2014 of the 74 such services in Cumbria, 24 were cut. Other villages found themselves with a service that ran perhaps twice a week. This has affected the ability of some residents in villages to access services. Three small scale voluntary led services (the Border Rambler) have been established but the scale has not replicated the extent of the services that previously were there. Whilst you can get from the larger settlements, such as Brampton to Carlisle several times a day, the odds are that to commute from the remoter villages to Carlisle you will require access to a car. In contrast the services within the urban areas which did not require subsidies, have mostly remained unaffected. Use of planning conditions have enabled some services to be expanded to housing developments on the edge of the City. Such as the 62 which has expanded into housing development at Crindledyke. We have attached in the appendices a map of the main bus routes in the City (appendix 4). The train system has remained the same, with a main station at Carlisle, and three smaller branch stations at Brampton, Wetheral and Dalston. CNDR In 2011, the Carlisle Northern Development Route opened. A 13 mile relief road from just outside Carlisle (in Dalston ward), crossing the Eden River to Junction 45 (in Stanwix Rural ward). A map and news report about the route is in appendix 5. As such the road network has vastly increased the capacity in the eastern side of the City. In terms of the Council boundaries the County Council Boundary Review which was put in place in 2013, recognised this could impact on ward boundaries as it allowed Kingmoor Parish to be tagged into the Dalston Division which would have previously been impracticable without the CNDR. It also opened up the potential sites for development such as Local Plan site U7. As a submission we
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would wish to also utilise the CNDR as a feature of our warding pattern for the west of urban Carlisle. In fact the CNDR and Raffles Regeneration has resulted in our warding pattern on the west of the City being radically redrawn.
Flood Risk: In 2005 and again in 2015, Carlisle and several of the surrounding villages were severely affected by flooding, with many thousands of residents forced to leave their homes for many months. Within the context of the review this raises a couple of relevant issues. 1. Access over bridges – In 2015 revised Health and Safety Policy led to a large number of bridges (1,600) across Cumbria being closed for up to several weeks until flood waters receded and visual underwater safety checks could be made. Some still remained closed months later whilst they waited repairs. In the case of the main Eden Bridge connecting the North to the South of Carlisle it was shut for nearly a fortnight before the safety check was possible. Whilst the newly constructed CNDR was able to remain open (just) it resulted in prolonged traffic delays, and if the Eden Bridge had been damaged this could have remained the case for months. As much as we possibly can, we therefore have the view that the ward boundaries ought to reflect the potential that this could occur in future. Our boundaries do not unnecessarily jump rivers. Therefore Stanwix does not take in any of the City centre and the north bank of the Eden at Crosby is in a separate ward to the Warwick Bridge area on the south bank. A news report on this issue and its impact on resident’s lives can be found in Appendix 6.
2. Flood Risk Mapping – The Environment Agency has as a result of these floods updated their flood risk map for the area. The flood risk map for Carlisle and District can be found at:
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https://flood-map-for-planning.service.gov.uk/ As a consequence several areas that previously might have been developed encountered additional setbacks when their flood risk was increased. In some wards, large areas have been affected. Areas that might have been developed encountered difficulties in getting agreement from the Environment Agency, facing additional costs to fund flood mitigation and the potential that new build schemes might not be covered by the Flood Re scheme. Appendix 7 highlights a media report on such a development encountering these problems in Denton Holme. We feel that for the foreseeable future this will limit some wards being developed residentially. It is no coincidence that wards on the City limits and in areas like Brampton and Crindledyke that did not flood are due to be more developed over the next 5 years than areas such as Warwick Road, Denton Holme and Caldewgate. Partly because of this our proposal has some wards such as Harraby South & Parklands; Belah & Kingmoor and Wetheral & Corby Hill as being under electoral equality, whilst others such as Castle and Botcherby & Durranhill are at, or slightly above electoral equality, as we don’t anticipate a great volume of extensive residential development due to this.
Overview of our review submission We consider that our proposal for warding arrangements is workable and meets the LGBCE criteria. It takes account that Carlisle has an urban and rural mix, and that over the last 20 years it has changed, and will continue to evolve up to and beyond 2023. It resets the current warding arrangement which have fallen out of kilter. By moving the urban ward boundaries outwards so the proposal can adapt for current and future residential developments. It reflects our election cycle by being entirely a series of 13 x 3 member wards. After discussion within the Conservative City Council Group, we decided that we would move away from single and two member wards. All current two and single
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member wards would be incorporated into three member wards. Because the ratio of electors per Councillor would be increasing, we felt that single and two member wards that covered much increased geographic areas would potentially be difficult to cover (one single member ward we looked at in the Spadeadam and Lyne area covered 12 remote rural Parishes). Having three members with an interest in such an area would enable ward tasks to be shared, which we felt was a better option than relying on a lone Councillor. We acknowledge that the geography and river system can have a role in setting ward boundaries, we have also kept a city centre based ward to contain the core services and retail/commercial and residential offer already found there. We have tried to organically grow wards wherever we can in areas such as Denton Holme so that their historic sense of community is retained. However the west of the City has been redrawn to reflect the changes in infrastructure and community. Lastly, we have chosen to draw on the existing road network to help establish ward boundaries, the main roads in the area reflect the communities that are within them and help shape their identity as readily and easily identifiable boundaries. Our proposed warding pattern is:-
Number Ward Number of Size of Projected Variance Variance as name Councillors ward for ward size a % ‘Electoral on Equality’ submission RURAL WARDS 1 Brampton 3 6,891 6,883 -8 -0.11 and Fellside 2 Wetheral 3 6,891 6,498 -393 -5.70 and Corby Hill
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3 Longtown, 3 6,891 6,660 -231 -3.33 Lyne and Irthington 4 Dalston 3 6,891 6,611 280 -4.06 and Burgh URBAN WARDS 1 Castle 3 6,891 7,232 341 +4.94 2 Currock 3 6,891 7,116 225 +3.26 and Upperby 3 Stanwix 3 6,891 6,549 -342 -4.96 Urban and Houghton 4 Belah and 3 6,891 6,583 -308 -4.46 Kingmoor 5 Harraby 3 6,891 6,856 -35 -0.50 South and Parklands 6 Botcherby 3 6,891 7,121 230 +3.33 and Durranhill 7 Sandsfield 3 6,891 7,255 364 +5.28 8 Newtown 3 6,891 7,141 250 +3.62 and Morton Central 9 Denton 3 6,891 7,206 315 +4.57 Holme and Morton South
The variances range by 2023 of our proposed wards range from -5.7% in Wetheral and Corby Hill to +5.28% in Sandsfield, which we feel is in line with the -/+ 10% guidance set by the LGBCE and in line with other reviews on the LGBCE website.
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Brief Explanation of the OC Polling District Figures The information supplied by the LGBCE considers the Polling District OC (Cummersdale) as one area. In the annual Polling Review considered and approved by Carlisle City Council in January this year the OC Polling District was split into three areas due in part to the number of building projects there. These are:- 1. OC1- The area stretching from Dalston Road, covering Cummersdale Village. 2. OC2 - The area between Dalston Road and Wigton Road, from KC polling District outwards 3. OC3 – The area from Wigton Road to the boundary line with Polling Districts NA and ND. The 2023 electoral figure for OC is 1,333 electors. The Electoral Officer has provided estimates that the following will be the 2023 estimates for each area:- Polling District Electorate OC1 250 OC2 499 OC3 584 Total 1,333
For consistency we have used the same figures as the City Council in their submission.
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RURAL WARD PROPOSALS
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Ward 1 – Brampton and Fellside 3 Members Electorate – 6,883
Currently Brampton is a two member ward centered on the town of Brampton. Its footprint matches the boundary of the Parish Council of the same name. Within its boundaries are smaller settlements such as Milton. Brampton is home to an active community, which supports a range of local shops, Primary schools and a successful Secondary school, a support that also draws heavily from the rural area as it is a Market Town. Brampton Ward is also the location of Talkin Tarn, a leisure facility owned and extensively enhanced by the Carlisle City Council since 2005. However the village of Talkin lies in a neighbouring City Council ward. In terms of transportation, Brampton hosts a rural train station on the Carlisle to Newcastle line. To the south of the village, the main roads of the A689 and A69 meet before continuing towards Newcastle. To the north, the A6071 links Brampton to Longtown. To the south and east of Brampton are three, single member wards. The first ward Hayton, contains the village of Hayton and the larger settlement of Corby Hill as well as many smaller settlements such as Faugh and Fenton. The second ward of Great Corby and Geltsdale meets the Brampton ward at Talkin, which is also a part of Hayton Parish Council area. The last ward of Irthing encircles the east and north of Brampton, containing Parishes such as Farlam, Nether Denton, Lanercost and Walton. These wards contain a number of farms and small settlements. The eastern boundary of Brampton meets the two member ward of Stanwix Rural at Irthington Parish.
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Our Proposal – Brampton and Fellside. Our proposal is to create a three member ward from the following polling districts:- Polling District Parish Council Electorate Electorate area 2017 2023 PKA Brampton 1171 1210 PK Brampton 2259 2609 PL Brampton 96 101 PR2 Carlatton 32 33 PAA Hayton 558 564 PAC Hayton 132 137 PY2 Midgeholme 46 47 PY1 Farlam 508 530 PP1 Castle Carrock 252 262 PS Cumwhitton 249 259 PR1 Cumrew 75 79 PW Nether Denton 244 250 PX1 Upper Denton 73 73 PX2 Waterhead 77 88 PO1 Burtholme 172 167 PO2 Waterhead 14 16 PX3 Kingwater 14 15 PG2 Kingwater 104 104 PG1 Askerton 67 68 PAX Walton 231 236 PH2 Askerton 33 35 Total 6,407 6,883 Variance from forecasted 2023 average -8 electors of 6891 electors for a three member -0.11% ward
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Map of the Proposed Ward:
Brampton and Fellside Principles Behind the Proposal: Brampton and Fellside would become the sole ward to the east of the rural district. Brampton would be the hub of the ward and through the existing road network would have a direct link to all the surrounding parishes within it. Public Transport:
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In terms of public transport the 685 service runs a multi-daily bus service between Carlisle and Brampton (via Warwick Bridge). The rural areas of the ward are serviced to Brampton twice a week by the following routes:- 680 Nenthead to Carlisle Service – stopping at Midgeholme, Tindale Fell, Hallbankgate and Milton prior to arrival in Brampton. 95 Brampton to Carlisle service – stopping at Castle Carrock, Hayton and How. Brampton Rambler (route 1) – stopping at Laversdale, Newtown and Irthington and Brampton.
Parish Network: Our proposal would split only one Parish Council area. Hayton Parish is already a spilt parish with Talkin Parish in the current Great Corby and Geltsdale ward. Our proposal would move PAD (Corby Hill) and PAB1 (Heads Nook) into Wetheral and Corby Hill. In the case of PAB1 this would allow all of Heads Nook village to be sited in one ward, rather than spilt down the middle as is the case now. The addition of Corby Hill (PAD) into Wetheral makes Wetheral and Corby Hill correlative with the 2023 LGBCE electoral equality range, whereas otherwise it would be 18% under sized. Likewise it’s relocation into Brampton and Geltsdale would take the ward to 12% over the 2023 electoral equality figure and the addition of PAB1 to this would take the ward to 17% over electoral equality. Community Outlook: Because the vast majority of the roads and public transport links lead to Brampton, and services like Doctors, pharmacy and secondary education are located in Brampton, the surrounding wards tend to look to Brampton as their hub. As a market town, Brampton attracts shoppers from the surrounding area to its rural economy. In 2007, a large Garden Centre was established at Houghton Hall (with a
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bus link that travels through Houghton and Stanwix). This has provided a further closeness between the two areas as its retail and catering provide an economic attraction. Local Plan/ Future Growth: Brampton Town is the only area within the ward with sizeable developments proposed under the Local Plan. It has three sites allocated within it, projected to yield 450 dwellings. These are:- R1 – Land South of Carlisle Road – 250 dwellings R2 – Land West of Kingwater Close – 60 dwellings R3 – Land North of Greenfield Lane – 140 dwellings In the remainder of the ward there are no further sites outlined in the Local Plan. However housing growth can occur in the rural area through infill developments and the conversion of redundant agricultural buildings. However this will be secondary to the main development sites.
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Ward 2 – Wetheral and Corby Hill 3 Members Electorate – 6,498
At present Wetheral is a two member ward. For the most part it mirrors the footprint of Wetheral Parish Council. The exception being that the Great Corby and Heads Nook area of the Parish are within Great Corby and Geltsdale, a single member Council ward to the east. The ward is predominantly a rural facing ward containing the settlements of Wetheral, Scotby, Aglionby and Warwick on Eden as well as a number of scattered dwellings. The Council ward boundary to the west is dissected by the M6 Motorway in three areas:- Polling District RC – The part of this polling district west of the M6 contains mostly undeveloped flood plain, but is the site of a Tesco Supermarket. It contains no residential properties. Polling District RG – This area contains current housing developments in Barley Edge, Alexandra Drive and Pasture Walk. This area also has two Local Plan Residential Housing Allocations. Site U18 is planned for 150 dwellings and U20 is planned for 70 dwellings. The land will then be developed to capacity and will join with the road network in the current Botcherby ward. Polling District RH – Separated from Polling District RG by the train line to Newcastle, RH lies next to the Harraby ward and the Harraby portion of Botcherby ward. It contains Local Plan site U4 of 140 dwellings is also sited here.
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The Wetheral ward contains an extensive level of recent and allocated housing developments. Originally set as a two member ward in 1997, the extent of building by the start of the current review process had caused the electoral variance of the ward to increase to 26% from the Council average. This is the highest in the District and has resulted in the electoral size overtaking some urban three member wards. This growth has been due to three specific reasons:- 1. Urban Sprawl from Carlisle: The western area of the ward was in 1997 undeveloped, but as Carlisle has grown, polling districts RH and RG have seen residential developments occur which have used the existing urban based road network to form their infrastructure connections.
2. New Build Developments in Existing Villages: In Scotby and Wetheral a large number of ‘Executive style’ developments have been built. Examples include land west of Steele’s Bank, Edenholme Park in Cumwhinton and Scotby Plains.
3. ‘Windfall’ Sites: Due to the lower housing density and the larger gardens traditionally found in this ward, coupled with the changes in planning policy that relate to Village boundaries this ward has had a higher proportion of housing being built under infill/windfall planning rules than anywhere else. Out of the 205 rural properties delivered in the year 2016-17, Wetheral Ward contained 95 (46%). We have attached the 2016-17 figures in appendix 8.
Our Proposal: Wetheral and Corby Hill: Our proposal is to establish a ward based mostly on the same footprint as the local Parish Council and the current Wetheral ward. However we would wish to alter the boundaries to the east and west, yielding the western area beyond the
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motorway to the urban area, whilst taking in areas that are currently single member wards. Our proposed ward would be made up of the following Polling Districts:-
Polling District Parish Council Electorate Electorate area 2017 2023 RA Wetheral 481 510 (Cumwhinton portion) RB Wetheral 405 524 (Cumwhinton portion) RC Wetheral (Scotby 1204 1441 portion – east of the M6) RD Wetheral 185 214 (Aglionby portion) RE Wetheral 1007 1284 (Wetheral portion) RF Wetheral 209 215 (Aglionby portion) PAB1 Hayton (Heads 312 332 Nook portion) PAB2 Wetheral (Great 259 277 Corby portion) PBC Wetheral (Great 358 493 Corby portion) PBB Wetheral (Great 341 352 Corby portion)
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PAD Hayton (Corby Hill 736 856 portion) Total 5497 6498 Variance from forecasted 2023 average -393 electors of 6891 electors for a three member -5.7% ward
Map of the Proposed Ward:
Wetheral and Corby Hill
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Principles behind our Proposal: Using the M6 as a Boundary Line: Our proposal would keep a rural facing ward based on Wetheral. It would accept that where the ward overlaps the M6, that the developments there are urban facing and connect to the existing road networks of Harraby and Botcherby. As a result the boundary line would become the long established Motorway, which over time has formed a natural barrier to accessing these areas from the rest of the ward anyway (we shall discuss this in more detail in the Harraby South & Parklands and Botcherby & Durranhill wards). Geography and Road Network: The natural course of the Eden River would form the boundary to the north and to the south-east of the ward. We have chosen to retain the current river boundary between Polling Districts RA and PS as being the river, because there is no bridge link between these two areas. This results in a Wetheral ward which is 2017 will be 11.4% under the average elector to Councillor ratio. The inclusion of PS into Wetheral for 2017 would however reduce this variance to 7% under 2017 electoral equality, without adversely compromising Brampton and Fellside Ward. However we have decided not to do this as it would breach our desire not to jump rivers (particularly as there is no existing crossing there). We also note that this ward is predicted to grow substantially up to 2023 so will naturally close this variance by half over 5 years. We also note the guidance from the LGBCE (Appendix 9) that the Electoral Equality figure we should be aiming for is the 2023 target of 2,297 electors not the 2017 figure. The revised ward will however move east and incorporate further Villages from both Hayton ward and Great Corby and Geltsdale. These villages have existing road links to the Wetheral area including the A69, the main Carlisle to Newcastle
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link road. In fact the recent campaigning to bypass the A69 from these villages has been a cross cutting issues across these separate Council wards. Parish Network: The current boundaries we feel are not drawn to their best, with small villages divided between two wards. For example, Heads Nook is currently divided by the boundary being set as the middle of the road. Additionally the village of Warwick Bridge has over time grown into the village of Corby Hill, but under the current arrangement is divided between two Council wards. Our proposal places these areas within the Wetheral and Corby Hill ward. The Parish of Hayton will continue to straddle two Council wards as is currently the case now but no further Parishes will be divided under our proposal. Public Transport: In terms of public transport there are 3 bus routes which would serve the area: 95 - A twice weekly service linking Carlisle to Brampton via the villages of Wetheral, Faugh, Heads Nook, Warwick Bridge, Scotby and Great Corby. 685 – The main and more direct Brampton to Carlisle route which runs several times a day, during all days of the week. 74/75 – A service running from Dalston to Wetheral via Carlisle but which also stops in Scotby, Cotehill and Cumwhinton. It operates 10 times a day from Monday to Saturday. Community Outlook: The area being a collection of villages, has a good range of active communities who have built up and supported facilities such as Village Halls, and social groups. In redefining Wetheral as a rural based ward it would be better able to support these villages, than if the boundary remained linked into the urban fringe of Carlisle, and Wetheral remained part urban part rural.
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The Wetheral and Corby Hill ward would at 6,498 electors being 393 electors under electoral equality (or 5.7%) in 2023. We feel that the extent to which this area receives ‘windfall’ applications (95 in the last available year, 46% of the total in the rural area of the Council) means that it will soon make good this shortfall.
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Ward 3 – Longtown, Lyne and Irthington 3 Members Electorate - 6660 Longtown & Rockcliffe and Stanwix Rural are both rural based wards in the north of the District. Each are currently two member wards, based predominately around a collection of villages in each. The biggest two settlements are Longtown, a small town of over a thousand electors and Houghton, which is a large village with a population of about 800. Stanwix Rural forms around the rural area to the north of urban Carlisle. With the A689 forming the backbone of the ward. Longtown is based around the junction of the A7 and the A6071. In terms of residential development, Stanwix Rural has expanded at a greater rate than Longtown. In 2017 it was 25% above the average electorate for the district, whilst Longtown with 1,487 electors per Councillor was close to the average. In Stanwix Rural this was due to a large number of residential developments directly outside the City boundaries such as Crindledyke and Windsor Way. Likewise several of the villages such as Crosby on Eden, Houghton and Cargo had expanded with residential new builds over the intervening 20 years. This was less of a case in Longtown, which saw fewer sites coming forward for development, though in the first few years after this review it is anticipated that several recently approved sites will become established as is shown in the Local Plan maps in Appendix 3. Each ward has a wide spread of isolated properties due to its strong historic agricultural economy.
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Our Proposal – Longtown, Lyne and Irthington
We propose an amalgamation of the bulk of these two wards to create a new 3 member ward. It includes the main settlement of Longtown, and a number of small sized villages in the rural north of the district. In addition we will also transfer into this ward several Parishes from the single member Lyne ward. Our proposed ward would be made up of the following Polling Districts:
Polling District Parish Council area Electorate Electorate 2017 2023 PAJ Kirklinton 304 308 PE1 Arthuret 1021 1211 PE2 Arthuret 736 932 PF1 Arthuret 61 63 PE3 Kirkandrews 108 112 PE4 Kirkandrews 157 164 PF2 Kirkandrews 92 95 PAG2 Rockcliffe 202 355 PAM Rockcliffe 387 415 PAY Westlinton 294 308 PAG3 Rockcliffe 29 30 PAR Scaleby 293 305 PAE Hethersgill 308 314 PAT1 Stanwix Rural 320 322 PAU1 (part) Stanwix Rural 84 83 PAK Nicolforest 299 312 PAS Solport 122 130 PAW Stapleton 211 208 PH1 Bewcastle 332 339 PAF Irthington 569 569 PAT2 Irthington 82 85 Total 6,011 6,660 Variance from forecasted 2023 average of 6,891 -231 electors electors for a three member ward -3.33%
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Map of the Proposed Ward:
Longtown, Lyne and Irthington
Principles Behind our Proposal: Geography: We propose a three member ward covering the entire north of the rural area. It would stretch from the River Eden to the length of the border with Scotland. The Eden River would form much of the border between Dalston & Burgh and Wetheral & Corby Hill wards. Where the Eden goes into Carlisle the border would
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be the parish boundary with Kingmoor PC. The A689, would act as the border with Stanwix Urban and Houghton. Parish Councils: In this warding proposal only one Parish would be split (Stanwix Rural Parish – which is already split). The separation of three villages and the bulk of the population of Stanwix Rural Parish into Stanwix Urban and Houghton, would result in Longtown, Lyne and Irthington gaining the lower density areas of Stanwix Rural Parish. For clarity we would move the area north of the A689, between the Linstock roundabout and junction 44 of the M6 as well as polling district PAT1 into the new ward. We would also use the opportunity of this review to sort out the oddity of PAG3, which is the bottom half of a cul-de-sac, with the majority of the road being in Longtown and Rockcliffe (PAG2). We estimate these moves would take 436 residents of Stanwix Rural Parish into the new ward. The use of the A689 as the dividing line between Stanwix Urban and Houghton and Longtown and Stanwix Rural would be a clear and easily recognisable line. Public Transport: The east of the ward relies on a volunteer led bus service (the Border Rambler), which operates a twice weekly bus service between Brampton and Carlisle. The majority of the bus services in the ward link Longtown to Carlisle via the 79 and the 179 service, which is a twice hourly service. Road Network: In terms of the road network the main roads of this new ward would remain the A7, the A6071 and A689, with many smaller B roads. All settlements within this ward can be reached from within the ward, the furthest travelling distance time being 33mins from Rockcliffe to Bewcastle, but 80% of the ward can be reached in under 20 mins from Longtown.
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Local Plan and Future Growth: The Local Plan allocates three sites within this ward for future residential growth of 406 dwellings: R11 – Land Kingmoor Park (Harker) – 300 dwellings. R4 – Land at former Lochinvar School – 106 dwellings. R5 – Land of Old Road – 60 dwellings Future growth will also occur via infill developments and conversion of agricultural developments, within areas of the ward not allocated in the Local Plans.
Community Outlook: The ward will in reality have two areas of community focus. Around the Longtown area, the rural economy supports a selection of shops and eateries with some banks and medical services. The area to the south of the ward will rely more on Carlisle for its support services. Longtown has a Community Centre and most of the villages in the surrounding area have Village Halls as community focal points.
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Ward 4 – Dalston and Burgh 3 Members Electorate – 6,611
Dalston and Burgh are both wards in the rural west of the district. Although both are broadly the same in terms of geographical size, Burgh is a single member ward whilst Dalston has been a 3 member ward since the last review in 1997. Both wards are currently about 12% above the 2016 average ratio of Councillors to electors (Dalston has a ratio of 1,667 electors per Cllr, whilst Burgh is 1,648). The causes behind the change in Dalston are broadly similar to the other rural wards on the City edge. The main settlement in the ward (Dalston) has seen developers build on surrounding fields such as The Grange, which is a 128 dwelling development built in 2016-17. Likewise the larger plot sizes in the ward has enabled a significant level of infill development and wind fall sites. In 2016-17 Dalston saw 20 such properties which was just under 10%. Burgh by comparison saw 14 such properties built which was just under 7% (combined both areas saw 16.7% of such windfall sites). The biggest cause of population growth has however been the new build developments in the OH and OC2&3 Polling Districts. At the time of the last review the OH area was mainly occupied by the psychiatric health facilities there. However at the turn of the century a large area of land was developed into the Parklands development. The success of this scheme was extensively the start of such housing developments in the area, and over time a second series of similar housebuilding has commenced in the area with developments such as The Coppice. In other areas such as the OC2 and OC3 Polling Districts of Cummersdale Parish similar developments have also steadily taken place where the urban area meets the rural area, such as Clover Fields and Brackenleigh. The arrival of the CNDR has also kicked off a concentrated
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residential spur in the OC area. The Local Plan maps will highlight a number of housing schemes to be developed in the two OC areas between the City and the CNDR. These include Local Plan site U7 which is currently in the process of gaining outlining planning consent (for 480 dwellings) and the ‘Morton Masterplan’ a scheme approved in 2010 to deliver 825 on land in OC2 and KE polling district (in Morton).
Burgh and Dalston to some extent have a natural relationship both existing in the same County Council Division, and we therefore feel that in future they offer organic growth by being combined together.
Our Proposal – Dalston and Burgh (3 member ward) As with Wetheral and Corby Hill ward, we would wish to use the opportunity of this review to revise the wards of this area in two ways:- 1. To move land developed, or about to be developed over the next 5 years, that is sited close to the urban areas into a more urban facing ward. 2. To organically merge the remainder of Burgh and Dalston into a new ward that has a more rural outlook. The proposed ward would be made of the following Polling Districts:- Polling District Parish Council Electorate Electorate area 2017 2023 NA Beaumont 383 383 NB Burgh by Sands 608 644 NC Burgh by Sands 372 388 ND Orton 352 357
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OC1 Cummersdale 826 (total of OC 250 (Cummersdale areas) Portion) OA Dalston 1878 1915 OB Dalston 297 301 OD St Cuthbert’s 247 576 OE St Cuthbert’s 309 335 OF St Cuthbert’s 601 1064 OG St Cuthbert’s 307 315 OC2 Part Cummersdale 27 OC3 Part Cummersdale 56 Total 6,180 6,611 Variance from forecasted 2023 average -280 electors of 6,891 electors for a three member -4.06% ward
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Map of Proposed Ward:
Dalston and Burgh
Principles behind our Proposal: Refocusing Rural Polling Districts into the Urban Area as a Result of the Local Plan: The first part of this proposal would see OH Polling District moved into the Harraby South and Parklands Ward. The County Council Division of Harraby South already includes OH. As a Polling District, the current road linkage of OH to the Harraby area would be a logical change along the same lines as earlier outlined with Polling Districts RG and RH.
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Our proposal makes the greatest change to OC2 and OC3 Polling Districts. We would move the area between the current urban boundary and the CNDR/Peter Lane area into the urban area, using the CNDR as the new boundary. OC2 has land committed to the Morton Masterplan would relocate into Morton South and Denton Holme. Whilst OC3 up to the CNDR would form part of the new Sandsfield Ward. The OC3 area already has a number of developments currently being completed, such as Brackenleigh. Since the last review the current Yewdale and Dalston Boundary already dissects The Beeches estate built in 2001 (see the figure below), which has expanded with the development of the 235 dwelling Brackenleigh site last year (currently sited in OC3). The Local Plan also outlines site U7 in OC3. Currently applied for as planning application 17/0883 (Land at New House Farm), it will crosscut land in Yewdale ward and the current Dalston ward. We have attached an indicative site map Appendix 10. Whilst we explore this further in the Sandsfield ward proposal, moving the Dalston and Burgh ward line to the CNDR will provide a clearer definition of the urban and rural meeting point than is currently the case.
Cummersdale Village: We have retained Polling District OC1 (Cummersdale Village) within the Dalston area for two reasons. It is firstly a well-established village that has developed its own community infrastructure (such as the Ballroom/meeting hall, school and public house) separate to the surrounding area. As such it can be considered to have a community identity of its own, rather than needing to be linked with the Morton/Denton Holme area. We have already received indications from residents that moving Cummersdale Village itself into the urban area would be resisted and as any relocation would not need to be required to achieve electoral equality, we
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feel that for the purposes of this review it would be unpopular and unnecessary to follow this action. Electoral equality under our proposal can be achieved through moving the urban boundary to the CNDR alone. CNDR: As outlined in the introduction, the CNDR has transformed the area in terms of the road network. The CNDR has made travelling between Dalston and Burgh more efficient. Public Transport: Whilst Dalston has a train station, the greatest extent of public transport is by Bus. The 400 service operates from Dalston to the City Centre and the 93a runs into Burgh. In addition a second bus provider (Reays) operates an hourly service from Dalston to the City Centre and Wetheral, via Cummersdale Village. Local Plan: Outside of the OC Polling District two small sites are allocated in the Local Plan in Burgh Ward. Sites R12 and R6 will bring forward a total of 35 dwellings. The Dalston ward and Burgh also contribute a reasonable level of infill developments (16% of the 2016 windfall sites were in Dalston and Burgh). Community Focus: Dalston and Burgh both are in the same County Council Division. Dalston as a large village has a bigger level of meeting venues, medical care, shops and eateries which draws support from the surrounding areas.
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Ward 1 – Castle 3 Member ward Electorate – 7,194
Castle is the City Centre ward, created in 1999 it occupies the middle of urban Carlisle, where the rivers meet and the road network radiates from. It includes the main retail heart of the City, and the traditional headquarters of local governance. It also hosts the ‘Crown Jewels’ of Council owned assets, such as Tullie House Museum, The Old Town Hall Tourist Information Centre, The Sands Centre, The Sheepmount Athletics Track, Bitts Park and to a much, much lesser extent The Old Fire Station. It also contains a portion of the night time economic area of Carlisle in Botchergate (currently split with Currock). It’s varied housing ranges from a portion of the Raffles Estate to the west of the ward, through to Victorian terraced housing and Town Houses that either have been converted to apartments or in some cases retained as original dwellings. Containing both portions of the Caldew and Eden Rivers, several areas such as Caldewgate have been affected by recent flooding. Hardwicke Circus is the main roundabout in the City and prior to the CNDR the main route to access any point in the City. Castle Ward unsurprisingly also houses Carlisle’s main tourist attractions – Carlisle Cathedral and Castle, which is also home to the military heritage of the City. As such it is a central point of the City, and the Group opinion is that it should all be retained as a ward. The retail offer of the City is mainly based in the Scotch Street/ English Street and Lowther Street area. The main shopping centre (The Lanes) has since the last review increased its floor space by 40%, hosting mainly chain stores such as
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Primark, Debenhams and Next. In the area around the Cathedral (the Historic Quarter) the retail offer becomes more ‘independent and artisan’ in appearance. Traditionally the housing to the west of Castle Ward were once workers dwellings for the employees of nearby factories, whilst the properties in the Centre and east of the ward became more middle class. Because much of the land has already previously been developed as the City has expanded, Castle has fallen behind the average Councillor to electorate ratio. In 2016, it’s variance from the average was -19% at 3,594, which was the greatest negative figure in all the current Council wards.
Our Proposal – Castle Ward (3 members). We wish to retain Castle Ward. We feel it is important that a City has a central ward at its heart. However we need to raise the ward size by almost double the 2016 electorate figure to meet the proposed Electoral Equality of 6,891 electors, without losing the identity of it being a ‘central ward’. This is no mean feat, however it is achievable by moving the ward further eastwards, expanding into the next door St Aidans ward. In addition we would expand the ward into the HF Polling District (currently in a part of Denton Holme) and into the Botchergate portion of GB ward (currently in Currock). This will allow a centrally focused ward to be created without the risk of expanding too far into a predominantly un- relatable residential area. In doing so we allow for three further and organic wards to be formed in the west of the City. We also split Polling District CA to form part of Botcherby and Durranhill. Whilst the current County Council Division of Botcherby takes in the whole of CA, we tried as much as we could to reflect this arrangement, though we could not take all of polling district into the ward so an element is retained in Castle ward.
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Polling Description Electorate Electorate District 2017 2023 HF Denton Holme 415 449 JB Castle Ward 542 607 JC Castle Ward 1141 1174 JK Castle Ward 115 121 JD Castle Ward 686 740 Moved Adjustment to GB ward 153 from GB polling District to Castle Ward JF Castle Ward 20 21 JE Castle Ward 499 537 JG Castle Ward 22 23 JH Castle 0 0 CA (part) St Aidans 684 CF St Aidans 19 20 CD St Aidans 1412 1549 CB St Aidans 704 725 CC St Aidans 346 381 CG St Aidans 21 26 CE St Aidans 9 9 CH St Aidans 12 13 7,232 Variance from forecasted 2023 +341 average of 6891 electors for a three +4.94% member ward
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Map of our Proposed Ward:
Castle
Principles behind our Proposal. Our proposal retains the main service centres and retailing heart that one would expect from a City centre Council ward and in fact adds to them by moving from Currock ward the Train Station which is proposed for future development as a potential transport hub for the City. It also unifies Botchergate which has over the last twenty years been developed from an area of dereliction to a centre for the night time economy. This has brought in national businesses such as JD Wetherspoons, Vue Cinemas and Ibis. Currently the policing and Council responsibilities of this area cuts across two existing Council wards (Castle and Currock), under our proposal it will be just in one ward. The Castle ward also is the
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main connection point for all bus services in the City and this proposal adds the rail station as well. The new Castle ward will pick up the bulk of its population east of the City Centre. Organically growing into the former St Aidans ward which has similar housing range (see the figure below). The County Council review also expanded the Castle wards into this area to a lesser extent, but by taking the boundary point to the rail lines just prior to Polling District EA it makes for a clear boundary line, as does making St Nicholas Bridge the boundary for the ward with Currock. Student Population: The area of St Aidans has a high student population who live around the Fusehill Campus of the University of Cumbria. The previous County Council review divided this area up and linked part of it with the Currock area which has a much reduced student hub. Having the student residences within a single ward we think is preferable as there can be particular, unique ward issues associated with student areas, such as noise, empty properties for part of the year and even getting a new student influx to adapt to recycling and bin collection days. Not splitting this up would allow for ward members to be able to concentrate on these issues, making for more effective local government. HF Polling District: Previously the only point of access in the ward over the Caldew River was at Castle Way. By bringing Polling District HF into the ward we are also bringing in a second point at Nelson Bridge (which would be shared with Denton Holme and Morton South). Currently the Castle ward ends mid-point on the bridge. Moving the HF ward into Castle would add several streets that are sited near to the Caldew such as Milbourne Street that are more related in terms of style and sense of place with Caldewgate than with Denton Holme. In terms of flood risk both these areas of HF and JB Polling Districts were badly affected by the floods of 2005 and 2015.
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Combining them in one ward we feel will enable the Councillors to be better able to access all affected residents when dealing with flood related issues rather than having two sets of Councillors dealing with the similar flooding issues here. The Castle ward in our proposal ends up being over electoral equality by 303 electors (4.39%). Given the fact that the ward has a large proportion of land at risk of flooding (see the diagram below from the EA), this will limit its ability to expand. Likewise there are no developments bigger than 30 dwellings due to be built under the local plan in this area either. Therefore starting with a ward with this population level means that it will not move into a negative variance as quickly as it has done in the past.
Fig. EA Flood Risk Map for central Carlisle.
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Ward 2 – Currock and Upperby 3 Member Ward Electorate – 7,116
Currock and Upperby are currently two separate wards in the south of Carlisle. Each of the wards returns three Councillors. The more northern of the two wards, Currock extends from the area of the main Train Station in Carlisle and moves to the right of Botchergate, over the main train lines at St Nicholas Bridge. It then covers the land between the Petteril and the Caldew, but not the Bousteads Grassing area that is placed in the Denton Home Polling District HC. Currock then meets the Upperby ward in a very contorted boundary which dissects in part several streets (such as Ridley Road, Buchanan Road and Henderson Rd- see the figure below). In our view this boundary is weak, not because it dissects these roads in their middle, but because it does so to so many residential streets with little underlying logic. The Upperby ward then continues along the area between the two rivers until the City Boundary. It also crosses the Petteril River at Petteril Bank Road to encompass the post war housing estate behind the London Road area of Harraby (Polling Districts FE and FD). Because both wards have been extensively developed in the post war period, they have very little scope for large scale future development. In the period between 1999 and the 2016 this has resulted in the electorate of both wards falling behind the average for the City. In 2016, the variance in electorate from the average was - 8% for Currock (4,122 electors) and -18% for Upperby (3,673 electors). The variance in three member ward Upperby had become so pronounced that by 2016 the two member wards of Stanwix Rural and Wetheral had both overtaken Upperby in terms of electorate.
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Currock (present boundaries) Upperby (present boundaries)
Our Proposal – Currock and Upperby.
We consider that given the geographical location of these two undersized wards which have in effect merged together over time, the simplest proposition is the join the bulk of these two wards, creating a single ward called ‘Currock and Upperby’. The FD and FE wards of Upperby would under our proposal move to the new Harraby South and Parklands Ward, this would be based on their relation to the London Road area. We would also seek to make two further minor changes: 1. Bousteads Grassing (currently in HC Polling District) We would bring Bousteads Grassing and Maryport Court out of Denton Holme and into Currock. As they have no direct road link with the Denton Holme ward (and are accessed over the Caldew by two pedestrian footbridges to the rest of the Denton Holme ward), they remain isolated from the bulk of the current ward they are in. Our proposal of a Morton and Denton Holme South ward would further exacerbate this isolation. We would resolve this by relocating these two streets into this ward. The current electoral register has 69 voters.
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2. Moving the Botchergate portion of the GB Polling District into Castle Ward. Our proposal would redraw the GB Polling District, moving the top line of the GB Polling District from above the Train Station to the road bridges over the train lines at Currock Road and St Nicholas Bridges. At the Currock Road Bridge, the boundary would move up Currock Road to encompass the current residential properties on Currock Street before travelling into Lamplaugh Street at ending at the banks of the Caldew. Based on the current 2018 electoral register this would move the following 153 electors from Currock into Castle ward:- The new ward would consist of the following:- Polling Description Electorate Electorate District 2017 2023 FA Current Upperby ward 811 847 FB Current Upperby ward 747 781 FC Current Upperby ward 958 1111 GA Current Currock ward 840 863 GB Current Currock ward (part) 1211 1118 GC Current Currock ward 878 922 GD Current Currock ward 1080 1114 GE Current Currock ward 61 63 GF Current Currock ward 10 10 GG Current Currock ward 194 200 From HC Adjustment from Denton Holme ward 87 87
TOTAL 7,116 Variance from forecasted 2023 +225 average of 6891 electors for a three +3.26% member ward
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Map of Our Proposed Ward.
Currock and Upperby Principles behind our Proposal Shared Communities: Currock and Upperby have traditionally been two intertwined wards. Sharing many of the features you would expect from wards that have been historical developed in tandem. Currock has a well-established Council owned Community Centre in the GA polling district which is retained with the ward under our proposal. In addition there is a growing community hub in Upperby at the St Margaret Mary Parish Community Centre. Both communities are within easy access to the main recreation space of
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the Council owned Hammonds Pond in the south of the ward, and which hosts the popular Upperby Gala each Summer.
Public Transport: In terms of public transport there are two bus routes in the area:- 400 – This is a service that operates 7 times a day (except Sunday), that provides a link between the rural area and the City Centre. 67 – This is the main service in the area that forms a southern loop through both wards, operating several times an hour, seven days a week. As you can see from the table below, it is one of the most frequent routes in the City. The 67 however does not link with the FD and FE areas of the ward, which are only reachable by an alternate service.
Fig. Bus Route and Timetable for the 67 Service (Currock and Upperby). Polling Districts FE & FD Our proposal would see the FD and FE polling Districts of Upperby moved to the new Harraby South Ward. The linkage between these two areas and Upperby is via one single road (Petteril Bank Road, see the figure overleaf) which runs under the rail line. These two polling districts are not served by any bus routes that come from Upperby. They are divided from Upperby by both the West Coast mainline
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and the River Petteril. The County Council review of Divisions in 2008 transferred these areas into the Harraby South (County Council Division). We will discuss this at more length in the Harraby South proposal, but in brief this area is serviced by other public transport and road networks. As a result FE and FD have a stronger link with Harraby than Upperby.
Lady Gillford’s Bridge – the only point of connection between polling districts FE and FD and Upperby Polling District GB In making the Nicholas Bridge the boundary of the ward and moving into Castle ward the Botchergate area of the Currock ward we would be adding to Castle ward the main Train Station, and uniting the main area of the night time economy (with its related issues) into a similarly focused commercial ward. Local Plan The ward would be above the Electoral Equality figure of 6,891 electors by 3.73% (267 electors). The lack of major sites coming forward in the Local Plan for both wards will limit the rate that this ward will grow by 2023. We would anticipate that whilst wards in the urban fringe will grow, wards such a Currock and Upperby will remain level in terms of population growth as they have few, if any sites to offer.
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Ward 3 – Stanwix and Houghton. 3 Member Ward Electorate – 6,549
Stanwix Urban is a 3 member ward based to the north of Carlisle. A range of Victorian and pre-WW2 housing, it commences at the Eden Bridge travelling eastwards along the banks of the Eden to Etterby, and Westwards to encompass Rickerby Park (though not the small hamlet of Rickerby). It also takes in the Brampton Road and Whiteclosegate area as far as the Near Boot Pub. Northwards it moves up Scotland Road where it meets Belah ward. Taking in the areas to the east of this point, it also encompasses the BF polling district which is part of the Windsor Way development the first phase of which was constructed in 2005 and which is currently undergoing a second phase of development. The Winsdor site was at the point of the last review undeveloped. The site of the development is split with PBK Polling District of Stanwix Rural ward. In relation to the nearby Stanwix Rural Parish Council the BE and BF Polling Districts form part of Stanwix Rural Parish Council area. At the time of the start of the LGBCE review the Stanwix Urban ward had 4,339 electors which was a variance of -3% from the average. The next door 2 member ward of Stanwix Rural was however +25% from the 2016 average in part due to the urban spill from wards like Stanwix Urban and Belah. As a community the Stanwix area has established a Community Association who operate a Community Centre and playing field in Church Street. Efforts have also been made to undertake community activities such as regular Stanwix Big Tidy Up’s. As a result of this community spirit the area has won 4 Cumbria in Bloom awards.
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Fig. Stanwix Urban (blue) and the western boundary of Stanwix Rural Parish (pink)
Our Proposal – Stanwix and Houghton. Our proposed Stanwix and Houghton ward would continue to be a 3 member ward. We would organically expand the ward to take in a range of surrounding villages from Stanwix Rural Ward (Houghton, Brunstock, Linstock and, Rickerby) to reach electoral equality. We would make a new natural boundary to the north by taking the boundary to the A689. The area beyond the A689 would move into Longtown, Lyne and Irthington, this part of the ward has a particular rural outlook and much lower density than Houghton village. Whilst it would mean that 83 voters would move from PAU1 into Longtown, Lyne and Irthington, it wouldn’t cause any to move from PAU2 as all the electors live to the Stanwix side of the A689. The new ward of Stanwix and Houghton would consist of the following:- Polling Description Electorate Electorate District 2017 2023 BA Current Stanwix Urban ward 1165 1191 BB Current Stanwix Urban ward 829 849
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BC Current Stanwix Urban ward 1140 1176 BD Current Stanwix Urban ward 1020 1038 BE Current Stanwix Urban ward 200 200 BF Current Stanwix Urban ward 159 375 PAU1 Current Stanwix Rural ward of 1280 1365 Houghton. Adjustment to PAU1 (removal of 83 -83 -83 voters to Longtown, Lyne and Irthington ward) PAU2 Current Stanwix Rural ward 101 100 PAV Current Stanwix Rural ward 320 338
TOTAL 6,131 6,549 Variance from forecasted 2023 -342 average of 6891 electors for a three electors member ward -4.96%
Map of Our Proposal
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Stanwix Urban and Houghton
Principles behind our Proposal Geographic and Road Layout. The move of Stanwix outward to take in the surrounding rural villages is a practical solution to the need to organically grow the ward to electoral equality. It will unite Rickerby to the Rickerby Park, and respect the boundaries of the Eden River to the South. The Rickerby road and the A689 from the Linstock roundabout to junction 45 will provide a link to the ward, and form part of its northern boundary. The ward is easily accessible by the existing road network, and almost all except its eastern edge are paved. Public Transport: The 179 Bus service will link Houghton into Stanwix 9 times a day. In addition the 64a Reay’s Bus route links Houghton (and the nearby Garden Centre at Brunstock) 9 times a day as well. In total Stanwix is served by a total of 6 different routes between the two bus providers in the City.
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Fig. Bus timetables connecting Houghton to Stanwix and Carlisle.
Conjoined Housing and the Local Plan Houghton has developed along the right hand side of the Houghton Road, joining Stanwix at the Near Boot Inn, as the photo below shows. There is in reality only 75mtrs between the last property in Stanwix Urban and the first property in Houghton.
Houghton Road in PAU1 Polling District as taken from the Near Boot in BE Polling District
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The development of a Local Plan site at Windsor Way (U11 in the Local Plan) will also move the City nearer to Tarraby and Houghton by developing 300 dwellings. Under the Local Plan two further sites have been identified for development before 2023. U11 (Landsdowne Close) is outlined for 75 dwellings and a smaller 10 dwelling plot in Rickerby) A further site, U2 could yield a further 200 dwellings (split with Belah and Kingmoor). Site R10 is almost completed and has yielded 96 units. Other smaller sites have outline permission for infill and windfall developments such as in Brunstock. Community Focus: In addition to the Stanwix Community Association site in Stanwix, Houghton and Linstock also have well used halls supporting a range of activities from Bee Keeping to the WI. Houghton is also a site of a regular monthly Farmer’s Market which attracts residents from across the north of the City. Stanwix has a considerable student population relating to the Brampton Road campus of the local University. And its larger population support a range of shops on Scotland Road. In addition the area is served by a Morrison’s Supermarket that has footpath links with Houghton. In terms of Healthcare much of the ward shares with Belah and Kingmoor a modern healthcare centre on Eden Street.
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Ward 4 – Belah and Kingmoor 3 Member Ward Electorate – 6,583
Belah is currently a three member urban based ward in the North of Carlisle. It takes mainly the north-western top end of the City. It meets at the top of the ward the Stanwix Rural ward which contains the Kingmoor Parish Council area. Belah encompasses four well established communities:- Lowry Hill – A series of property developments built over the last 60 years. The executive style of housing and high density of dormer properties results in an older demographic than the rest of the City. St Anne’s – The former Carlisle City Council Housing developments, now mostly in private ownership following the Right to Buy policy. There is however a strong community sense, and community facilities in the form of the Belah Community Centre. Etterby – Originally its own separate village it has grown into Carlisle since the Second World War but retains and identity and in parts a village outlook. Kingstown – Like Etterby the properties were a separate small village and merged into the City when Lowry Hill was developed. Kingmoor Parish covers two distinct areas. The first Cargo, is the main village of the Parish. Originally home to about 100 dwellings since 2005 it has doubled in size when the Edenside development was built. The rise of Carlisle as a railway City and the former army site of 14MU (now since the millennium developed as Kingmoor Park Enterprise Zone) effectively cut the Parish in two. The second area of the Parish, Crindledyke, was originally home to a small collection of housing related to the 14MU site. Since 2012 the site was expanded by the Crindledyke
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development an 850 dwelling scheme. Currently the first phase of 184 properties have been built. Crindledyke is classed as an urban development under planning policy. Crindledyke has been connected to the City cycle network as part of the development and maintains a road link with the City through the Kingstown Industrial Estate. The arrival of the CNDR impacted this area greatly. In effect, the traditional separation of these two Kingmoor areas reduced significantly as the CNDR network connects both areas with Belah. The crossing over the rail network was replaced and upgraded. As elsewhere the opening of the CNDR has attracted additional residential developments to become established. Most noticeably is the Greymoorhill site currently being built in Belah and the 70 dwelling site on Kingmoor Road that has gained full approval recently (planning application 17/1028).
Greymoorhill: Current farmland on the edge of Belah being developed into housing.
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Across both areas there sits the Kingmoor Park Enterprise Zone and the area continues to attract residents to live in both wards due to the employment opportunities.
Our Proposal – Belah and Kingmoor: Our proposal will combine the expanding Belah ward with the Kingmoor Parish area. Polling District Current Council Electorate Electorate ward or Parish 2017 2023 AA Belah 1058 1076 AB Belah 876 876 AC Belah 759 767 AD Belah 1073 1370 AE Belah 813 1092 AF Belah 43 43 AG Belah 95 97 AH Belah 9 11 PAG1 Kingmoor 338 670 PAH Kingmoor 431 443 PBK Stanwix Rural 136 138 (Wolsty Close) Total 5,606 6,583 Variance from forecasted 2023 average -308 electors of 2,297 electors for a two member -4.46% ward
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Map of Our Proposed Ward:
Belah and Kingmoor
Principles behind our Proposal In part the breaking up of the existing Stanwix Rural ward makes this a natural and organic change as Kingmoor would need to join elsewhere. Given by 2023 the LGBCE projects a population of 1114, its addition to either alternatives of Longtown, Lyne and Irthington or Dalston and Burgh would make both exceed electoral equality by over 12%. The move into Belah would seem to be the best option to achieve electoral equality.
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Belah and Kingmoor would become a mix of an urban and rural ward. Though as time progresses and more developments are completed it would become more urban focused. We would also propose moving the PBK ward of Stanwix Rural into this ward. It is currently half of a new build estate completed in 2006. The other half of the estate is in Stanwix Urban. However at a County Council level this area is in Belah Division and the only way to exit the estate is to drive through Belah ward, as it has no road link with Stanwix Rural. Our proposal would provide this area with better ward definition and efficiency. In terms of public transport the Belah and Crindledyke areas are served by a regular service running at multiple times a day (the 76, 62 and 79 services) as the image below shows:
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With the establishment of the Crindledyke Estate, a Section 106 agreement was agreed to fund improved cycle links (and footpath links) between the existing City cycle networks through its links with Belah ward. This was opened in April 2017 and has proved popular with residents as it avoids the previous poor cycle links and narrow pavements. A news article on this linkage is provided in Appendix 11 Our proposal of Belah and Kingmoor would result in a ward of 6,583 electors which would be 308 under the electoral equality target of 6,891 electors or -4.4%. We consider this acceptable given the current developer activity, and if we were to take additional areas into the wards from either Stanwix Urban and Houghton or Longtown and Stanwix Rural it would affect their electoral equality.
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Ward 5 – Harraby South and Parklands 3 Member Ward Electorate - 6856
Harraby is a 3 member ward in the occupying the southeast of the City. It stretches along the north of London Road (the south forming a part of Upperby), and Eastern Way. Within the Harraby Estate, a portion of the ward around Pennine Way (Polling Districts DD and DE) was located in the Botcherby Ward in the 1997 Review. Harraby continues until it meets the St Cuthbert’s Parish Area. Technically the ‘Harraby area’ is spilt between three wards (Harraby, Upperby and Botcherby). The Harraby area has seen a substantial level of grant led investment in the last 20 years. A new Community Campus has been developed on Edgehill Road, containing a Community Theatre, softplay area, meeting rooms, café and sporting areas/pitches. It hosts a variety of daily events and regular activities such as midwifery and Baby Clinics, youth clubs and a Library Link. Additional Sport facilities such as Cycle track, and existing football areas at Keenan Park are also accessible. Following the creation of two Academies in Carlisle, the education system in Carlisle was reorganised. This resulted in the closure of Secondary educational facilities in the ward. However following the 2015 floods the Newman Catholic School was rendered unusable. The decision was made to temporarily relocate to the former Pennine Way Primary School in Silverdale Road. It is however anticipated that the school will relocate to a new site off Scalegate Road (see appendix 12 for a news report).
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Harraby has also seen LEP and Government investment in the Durranhill Industrial Estate to facilitate employment opportunities. In 2004, a large parcel of land at the Garlands Hospital became available for development. 189 plots were built from both new build and the conversion of existing buildings. Cricket pitches were relocated and a new Rugby Club was built. This site lies mainly in Dalston ward (OH) but also partially in Harraby and Wetheral (RH). This greatly increased the population of the area, and this will continue under the current local plan with further sites at: U14 – Land North of Carleton Clinic (currently under construction) – 189 dwellings. U4 – Land North of Moorside Drive – 140 dwellings. In addition once vacated the land at Pennine Way School is also allocated for residential development yielding 112 dwellings.
Our Proposal – Harraby South and Parklands. We are proposing the following Polling Districts form this ward: Polling District Current Council Electorate Electorate ward or Parish 2017 2023 FD Upperby 506 535 FE Upperby 699 739 OH Dalston 962 1302 RH Wetheral 202 472 EB Harraby 1218 1262 EC Harraby 616 640 ED Harraby 1121 1152 EE Harraby 256 261 EF Harraby 435 440
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EG Harraby 54 53 Total 6069 6856 Variance from forecasted 2023 average -35 electors of 6,891 electors for a three member -0.50% ward
Map of our Proposed Ward
Harraby South & Parklands
Principles behind our Proposal The County Council Boundary Review in 2013 recognised these changes in Harraby splitting the area into Harraby South and Harraby North (see the figures below). Whilst we are unable to repeat this exactly due to the differing electoral equality figures, we felt that this has been a sensible approach by the LGBCE. Therefore the area has been divided into two wards: Botcherby and Durranhill, and this ward Harraby South and Parklands.
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Figure: Harraby South and Harraby North (County Council Divisions)
The Polling Districts DD and DE will remain with Botcherby and the EA Polling District will join them using the Eastern Way as linkage, Harraby South will gain FE and FD from Upperby, RH from Wetheral and OH from Dalston. Local Plan Compatibility. This ward absorbs all past and current local plan developments on the urban fringe between Harraby and the M6. We have included the U4 site in this ward because of road linkage (as you will see from Appendix 13 the only road access possible is into Harraby on Moorside Drive and not into Botcherby. Public Transport: The area is served by 2 bus routes that operate several times a day: 60 – This connects Polling Districts FE and FD into the Carleton Clinic along Garlands Road. 61/61a/61b – this forms a loop within the Harraby estate.
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Community Campus and Sports Facilities:- With the increase in sports facilities the Harraby and Parklands Ward would have enhanced sports facilities (both public sector and private), including:- Cricket pitches Rugby Club and playing field 3G Football pitches Cycling track. Our proposal would coalesce these facilities into an identifiable ward. In addition the FE Polling District will also contain a second Community Centre called Petteril Bank, which has halls, youth rooms and computer room offering youth services, job clubs, and baby clinics.
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Road Linkage Our proposal provides for a ward which has strong boundaries formed from the road network with both the Motorway and the Eastern Way providing visual boundaries. Likewise the course of the Petteril provides a natural boundary to the east.
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Ward 6 - Botcherby and Durranhill 3 Member Ward Electorate – 7,121
Botcherby is a three member ward in the west of the City. Centred around Botcherby, which was once a village surrounding Carlisle but which was subsumed into the City in 1912, retaining a ‘garden village status’ until the growth of the City led to the establishment of the housing estate that occupies much of the area today. During the last review an area of Harraby was included in the ward around Keenan Park, using the Eastern Way as a recognisable road link between the two areas. When the County Council Divisions were redrawn for the 2013 elections, the County Division was expanded into the Warwick Road area (CA Polling District) as St Aidans Division was split up. The eastern side of the ward has seen an expansion of new housing into the ward of Wetheral (RG), the existing road network in Botcherby has been used to form the roads link for these housing developments. Under the Local Plan the RG area up to the train line will be developed in full by sites U20 (70 dwellings) and U18 (150 dwellings). In the wider Botcherby ward there are three sites outlined in the Local Plan for residential development. These are: Site U3 – Land at Pennine Way School (Once Newman School relocates) 112 dwellings. U13 – Land at Beverley Rise – 30 dwellings.
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U15 – Former Dairy site at Holywell Crescent – 66 dwellings. This was approved for development as planning application 17/0254 and is currently being built upon.
Figure: Highlighted areas of Botcherby outlined in the Local Plan for residential development.
Botcherby has a strong community sense and identity, until recently it hosted its own carnival. The local Community Centre and much of the area that is located near to the River Eden flooded in both 2005 and 2015. The reopened Community Centre hosts a Community Gym, Barnardo’s Baby Club, craft groups and soft play. Our Proposal: Botcherby and Durranhill. Our revised ward would retain the heart of the current Botcherby ward. It would achieve electoral equality by absorbing the urban fringe of RG ward, and part of the CA ward, as is the current case with the County Council Division. However to reach electoral equality we would also expand the ward further along the Eastern Way (which has already been used to form the current City Council ward), to
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incorporate EA Polling District. This takes in the current Durranhill Commercial area (which is undergoing a government funded redevelopment and expansion), and the residential area that surrounds it on London Road. The proposed ward would be made up from the following Polling Districts:-
Polling Description Electorate Electorate District 2017 2023 DA Botcherby 1301 1379 DB Botcherby 691 890 DC Botcherby 733 753 DD Botcherby 789 892 DE Botcherby 714 786 EA Harraby 1110 1156 CA St Aidans (part) 912 RG Wetheral 227 353 TOTAL 7,121 Variance from forecasted 2023 +230 average of 6891 electors for a three +3.33% member ward
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Map of Our Proposal:
Botcherby and Durranhill
Principles behind our Proposal:
Organically growing Botcherby ward in three directions to incorporate elements of Harraby, Wetheral and St Aidans is a reasonable proposal to retain an eastern urban ward focused around the Botcherby community. Linking Warwick Road Communities together Currently the Warwick Road communities are separated in two wards at the Petteril Bridge. Our proposal will unite the vast majority of these residents into one area, so community issues such as flood risk and rejuvenation post flood can be combined. The area is also closely orientated to the Community Centre which lies just off Warwick Rd.
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The move into St Aidans reflects the recent County Council expansion into the Warwick Road area, which shares a similar Victorian style of development built along the main access road to Junction 43 (Warwick Road). Likewise, taking the ward to the Motorway will allow Botcherby to gain additional areas. The first is the area around the main Supermarket in the South of Carlisle (Tesco). It sits on a flood plain which directly affects the lives of residents in DA and CA Polling Districts. It’s inclusion will link the ward with the land so that hoped for flood resilience work can be directly be accountable to the people whose lives will be most directly affected. Move of RG Polling District Residentially, the move of RG into the ward is simply a continuation of the process of housebuilding over the last ten years which has seen the Barley Edge estate evolve around the Durranhill Road, a process that will continue within the current Local Plan. We consider this an example of an urban fringe development and it’s relocation into Botcherby a pragmatic solution. Move of EA Polling District from Harraby The EA Polling District area around the Durranhill Sidings and Durranhill Industrial Estate we think is a logical move into Botcherby Ward. In terms of the road network, the principle of moving areas linked to the Eastern Way was established by the move of polling districts DD and DE into Botcherby in 1999. Our move takes the road to the other side of the Eastern Way into Botcherby as well. The boundary is easily definable as a result. It also brings into a ward a good portion of London Road which like Warwick Road is one the main access routes to and from the City. Therefore themes of traffic control, road pollution and the flow of traffic around the east of the City are linked into a ward. Moving EA into Botcherby will also move much of the urban flow of the River Petteril. Given the Environment Agency is about to announce shortlisted options
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for local river management, the forming of this ward around the river at this stage would enable it to become a more ward focused issue. Public Transport The proposed ward would be served by three main bus routes. The 60 and 61 which would travel through the ward before going into the Harraby South ward. Whilst the 76 Service travels through the St Aidans /Warwick Road area before travelling through to Botcherby and Durranhill.
The ward would meet electoral equality but be slightly over by 230 electors or 3.33% at 7,121 electors.
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Ward number 7 - Sandsfield 3 Member Ward Electorate: 7,255
Yewdale is an urban ward to the east of the City, bordering onto Dalston Ward. It is separated by Wigton Road from Morton and by a shared section of Heysham Park from Belle Vue. The ward incorporates the top section of the Raffles estate, one of the earliest housing estates in Carlisle. However the top of Yewdale represents the historic expansion of the City in the 1960’s and 1970’s. As land become available in sections they were built over time in different styles and forms. The LD section contains a significant proportion of Dormer bungalows and LA and LB contain mainly family homes. Latterly the LE section of the ward (above the Academy school) has seen the latest level of residential development. Firstly there was the development of The Beeches Estate in the 2003, which has been followed more recently by the development of the surrounding fields into the Brackenleigh development and Suttle Gardens. The first two of these developments have also taken the urban style of housing into the Dalston Ward. As can be seen from the figure below:-
Figure: The Beeches and Brackenleigh developments crossing the Dalston (left) and Yewdale (right) ward boundaries.
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Yewdale has within its boundaries a Primary School, two small parades of shops and a popular pub, and two local churches operate in the area.
Our Proposal – Sandsfield Sandsfield is a much changed ward to the current Yewdale and Belle Vue. Instead of keeping the two wards partitioned by an east/west boundary on land at Heysham Park we propose turning the boundary into a north/south partition, corresponding broadly to the CNDR. This will create two radically new wards Sandsfield which will be an ‘outer’ ward and Newtown and Morton Central which is an ‘inner’ ward. Sandsfield will be made of the following areas: Polling District Current Council Electorate Electorate ward or Parish 2017 2023 LE Yewdale 416 468 LD Yewdale 859 889 LC Yewdale 1071 1113 LB Yewdale 1201 1225 LA Yewdale 1013 1038 MB Belle Vue 998 1019 MA (Part) Belle Vue 920 OC3 (Part) Dalston 583 Total 7,255 Variance from forecasted 2023 +364 electors average of 6,891 electors for a three +5.28% member ward
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Map of Our Proposed Ward:
Sandsfield
Principles Behind our Proposal: Sandsfield is a new ward taking the Yewdale ward and the top half of the Belle Vue ward which are very similar areas built in similar trends. In addition it will add the OC3 Polling District of Dalston Ward up to the CNDR. The ward is viable as the creation using the CNDR as the ‘golden thread’ of development that reinforces the road linkage of Sandsfield Road that currently links Orton Road in Yewdale to Moorhouse Road in Belle Vue. We are proposing to split Polling District MA at Moorhouse Road and Beaver Road. Belle Vue Junior School and playing fields are a definable boundary between wards, everything west and north of Belle Vue School we propose to stay in MA.
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The junction of Moorhouse Road and Burgh Road are again a definable point of reference for the boundary between Sandsfield and Newtown and Morton Central. The following reasons we consider justifies the creation of this ward. Community Services: Yewdale Community Centre is a Council operated Centre which services both the Yewdale and Belle Vue areas (for example it is currently chaired by a Belle Vue Councillor). It houses a functioning Community Church whose attendance comes from both areas, fitness centre, children’s nursery and even a trampoline club. Yewdale has a popular public house within a small arcade of shops by the community centre which services the community for their everyday needs. Public Transport: As Sandsfield would cover the border of the urban city on the eastern side, its bus services are the outer routes of two popular services the 67 and 60 both of which run several times an hour for most of the day. The services alter slightly on Sunday. To some extent the current services will need to be adapted at some point to sufficiently cater for the new dwellings that are to be constructed.
Figure: Bus routes servicing Sandsfield Ward
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Cumulative Impact of Urban Fringe Developments: The area between the CNDR and Yewdale is outlined for a further intensive housing development. This is in three distinct areas: 1. The Brackenleigh Development The 253 dwelling Brackenleigh Development was approved in 2012, but commenced building last year. As you can see from the supporting location map from the application, the site covering extends beyond the current building site onto the circular area to the back of Hebden Avenue.
Brackenleigh site map and the Brackenleigh site as seen from the CNDR in OC3
The CNDR development which has occurred just outside of the ward has opened up the surrounding land to housing development. There are two current sites in the area of Yewdale which we feel will affect the area: 2. Site U7 – Land at Newhouse Farm:
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This is a site off the CNDR (see map below) it is currently going through the Planning process having been to Committee, but awaiting further information before formal approval, and is proposed to be built in blocks of 80 dwellings a year from 2018/2019 . The properties are to be built with access onto Orton Road, which is one of the major access roads in Yewdale to the CNDR. The Local Plan outlines this site for up to 509 dwellings. 3. Site U6 – Land at Garden Village, West of Wigton Road: This is outlined for 169 dwellings. Both these sites are shown below as is the site layout of U7 which highlights the road access points to Orton Road.
The impact of all these three developments on the urban fringe of Yewdale can be best seen by the figure below which shows the recently approved Brackenleigh site (red) next to sites U6 and U7 (pink). The cumulative impact of these three applications adds up to 931 dwellings to the area over the life of the Local Plan. As can be seen the land between Yewdale and the CNDR will be 75% filled by developments, with a substantial amount completed by 2023.
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Local plan map showing development in OC3 polling district and photograph from the CNDR showing the Brackenleigh development. Road and Path Linkage: The existing Sandsfield Road already forms a current boundary for the ward and a link between the top of Belle Vue and Yewdale. The use of the CNDR provides an additional road link between all of Yewdale and Belle Vue. This ward will therefore be easy to commute across. It also has footpath linkage through the area of Heysham Park with two access points (see overleaf).
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Figure: Sandsfield Rd Connection and CNDR connection and drone photo of Sandsfield Rd from Housteads Rd (in Yewdale) to Moorhouse Road (in Belle Vue).
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Figure: Footpath links between LA (Yewdale) and MB (Belle Vue) Polling Districts
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Newtown and Morton Central 3 Member Ward Electorate – 7,141
Belle Vue is a three member ward to the west of the City. Starting at a mid-point at Newtown Road it moves westwards taking in the areas along Burgh Road and Moorhouse Road until they meet Beaumont Parish. It is a ward of three distinct elements. Firstly around the Newtown Road area are a series of early 20th Century terraced and semi- detached properties. To the left of those lies the Raffles estate, a large housing estate constructed in the interwar and post war years, housing the then Carlisle Council’s social housing needs. As the ward progresses these properties give way to the more family homes, this time constructed by the private sector in the 1960’s and 1970’s. When the Raffles estate meets Wigton Road the other side of the road belongs to the Morton estate, another large housing estate originally as a Council operated housing scheme, the Right to Buy scheme has over time created a mixture of privately owned and housing association properties. Raffles being a large estate is currently divided between three wards, Yewdale, Castle and Belle Vue (which has the bulk of the properties). In the introduction discussing recent changes we have outlined fully the changes to Raffles. The demolition and rebuilding of fewer properties as part of the regeneration scheme has resulted in a ward that has remained stable around the average 2016 electorate at 4,588 (+3%). Morton as a ward already is relatively built to capacity and at 4,354 electors is (-3%) under the 2016 average. Both wards have had some infill developments as land has become available, such as Caslin Way (built on former masionette properties) and Turnberry Way, but not to the extent of areas on the urban fringe of the City.
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The Morton area has a community centre and Chances Park at the heart of the ward. Whilst the Belle Vue ward doesn’t have a Council operated Community Centre within it, as part of the regeneration efforts in the Shady Grove area of Belle Vue has seen a site for community outreach established by firstly the Livingwell Trust and at present by Community Reach (linked with the Church of the Nazarene). This is similar to the Cornerstone project in Denton Holme support and signposting to support the community. Our Proposal - Newtown and Morton Central As with the previous ward (Sandsfield), the warding arrangements for this ward are a major change in the current arrangement. With Sandsfield taking the outer edge of the City, Newtown and Morton Central is an inner urban ward linking the urban core of the western side of the city.
Polling District Current Council Electorate Electorate ward or Parish 2017 2023 JA Castle 804 861 KA Morton 839 863 KB Morton 1104 1234 KD Morton 647 669 KE (part) Morton 120 KF Morton 21 25 MC Belle Vue 1354 1674 MD Belle Vue 518 538 ME Belle Vue 564 600 MF Belle Vue 47 51 MG Belle Vue 50 58 MH Belle Vue 65 68 MA (Part) Belle Vue 380
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Total 7,141 Variance from forecasted 2023 +250 electors average of 6,891 electors for a three +3.62% member ward
Newtown and Morton Central will be based around two key communities. The first is the bulk of the Morton estate based around Chances Park. Unlike polling district KC (which we have placed with Denton Holme) this ward arrangement will not see the large residential growth through the Morton Masterplan, and will be more focused towards Wigton Road. The second community is the Raffles and Newtown area. Because of the need to increase ward sizes to achieve electoral equality and the changed housing levels caused by the Raffles Regeneration, the new ward can encompass all of the Raffles estate as a consequence. Map of Our Proposed Ward
Newtown and Morton Central
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Principles Behind Our Proposal Newtown and Morton Central is a redrawn ward linking two population centres either side of Wigton Road in an urban ward. We feel that there are a number of factors that lend these areas into a single three member ward. Road Linkage: Wigton Road acts as a backbone to this ward. The road has several crossing points and the main access to KA and KB is from Wigton Road at Stonegarth and off Dunmail Drive. There are several points at which Raffles can be accessed off Wigton Road such as Orton Road, Bower St and Balfour Road. Within the Newtown area Raffles can also be accessed from Shady Grove Rd and Raffles Avenue. We have driven through the area to check and within 10 min by car you can reach the opposite parts of this ward. Public Transport: In terms of public transport the ward benefits from three main bus routes:- 67 – This is a Newtown Road based service that travel through the ward forming a circuit in Sandsfield ward before returning through Raffles Avenue and back on to Newtown Road. 61- This service travels up Wigton Road before using polling districts KB and KA as loop. 60- This service travels up Newtown Road, crossing into Raffles and Orton Road, before forming a loop in Sandsfield Park.
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Figure: Bus route accessing Newtown and Morton Central. Reuniting Raffles ward: As we have outlined previously, Raffles traditionally was too large to fit into the previous warding arrangement. It was therefore divided into three wards (Castle, Yewdale and Belle Vue – with the latter taking the bulk of the properties). As part of the regeneration scheme to replace the 642 houses that were demolished (nearly half the estate), 423 dwellings have been built in 5 phases (with a further 52 due in a 6th phase) before the developer completes their plan. These properties are a mix of affordable housing and housing association properties. This lower
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density and the fact that ward sizes need to increase to achieve electoral equality mean that the whole of the estate can be located into a ward, which is our proposal. Supporting Community Groups: As part of the Raffles Regeneration, the area has an investment of resources to firstly tackle elements of anti-social behaviour and secondly to enhance the lives of residents. The Police Force as part of the regeneration opened a site in Shady Grove Road for handling of local issues which has had some success and been extended beyond the original life of the scheme. A former hall (Raffles Community House) on Raffles Avenue being used as a base for engaging with the community by the Community Reach group, which is an outreach programme supported by the Church of the Nazarene in Belle Vue. Their aim is to assist and help residents achieve outcomes to issues which they might face. We feel that in re-warding this area, we can provide one set of identifiable Councillors to work with these groups (rather than the possible 9 that currently serve the area). Likewise in Morton the community has a focus point around the Morton Manor Community Centre, a Council owned facility set in Chances Park. It is also close to the Raffles area (separated only by Wigton Road), and has some cross over in users.
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Denton Holme and Morton South 3 Member Ward Electorate – 7,206
Denton Holme is the historical setting for many of the factories that established Carlisle as a City, with the associated terrace housing that you would expect from an industrial northern City. Based in the south of the City, it lies next to the Caldew River, which powered the industry. Moving outwards the ward meets with Dalston Road, the main road linking Carlisle to Dalston and at Peter Lane the start of the CNDR. At the base of Dalston Road, the Victorian properties become more town house in style as this was the historic housing for the more clerical and managerial workers based in the factories. As you move up Dalston Road you leave this style of housing behind, and as you travel through the Longsowerby and Morton areas, encounter post war estates built to accommodate a growing population. Longsowerby reaches the City Cemetery on Richardson Street, and beyond that lies one of the Cities biggest employers (Pirelli). As such a lot of their employees can be found living in the surrounding streets. In 2001 Carlisle City Council brought forward the Morton Masterplan, project commission by Carlisle City Council and the Church Commissioners. This is a strategic release of land in KC Polling District and OC2 ward, to provide employment, retail and 825 homes. As the project progressed it initially encountering a series of holdups, and further studies. In 2010 however outline planning permission was granted and the initial site at Clover Field for 100 dwellings started to be developed in 2017. The Denton Holme area which has always had a definable community, has undergone a recent focus for economic growth by rebranding itself as ‘The Urban
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Village’. Indeed it has the largest shopping area outside of the City Centre, housing a range of shops, from a Co-op to many independent retailers. It also has a local building society, the only financial bank or building society not on the main high street or based in industrial areas for commercial banking.
Figure: Denton Holme shopping area and entrance sign to Denton Holme/ Denton Holme also has a community spirit. As well as a popular Community Centre with a range of activities, for 25 years the area has been home to the Cornerstone Project operated by the main church in the area (St James’s). Cornerstone is operated by 60 volunteers providing support to those who live, work and visit Denton Holme. As well as acting as a base for crafts and hobby activities, it undertakes an ‘Op Shop’. Here residents can access a friendly service that can sign post them to necessary places for further help.
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Figure: Cornerstone main building (behind traffic lights and Cornerstone OpShop However because Denton Holme is relatively landlocked by the river to the east and the cemetery to the south, its population is not on its own able to reach electoral equality. Therefore it either has to add areas to its own or be potentially divided into other areas.
Our Proposal – Denton Holme and Morton South We consider that given the sense of community outlined above we would prefer for Denton Holme to be expanded rather than be subdivided. Due to the physical
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barrier of the River Caldew and our desire to keep a City centre based ward in Castle, the only option open to use is to move a portion of the ward westwards. The new ward will be made up of the Polling Areas:
Polling District Current Council Electorate Electorate ward or Parish 2017 2023 HA Denton Holme 315 405 HB Denton Holme 863 882 HC (part) Denton Holme 987 968 (part – portion moved to Currock and Upperby) HD Denton Holme 803 1004 HE Denton Holme 1153 1175 KE (part) Morton 465 KC Morton 1313 1838 OC2 Part Dalston 469 Total 7,206 Variance from forecasted 2023 +315 electors average of 6,891 electors for a three + 4.57% member ward
Map of Our Proposal:
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Denton Holme and Morton South
Principles behind our Proposal: Joining Denton Holme to KC Polling District Our decision to move KC (Morton South) and OC2 (Dalston ward, up to the CNDR) into the ward is strategic in that it will add an area of residential growth under the Morton Masterplan, keeping the Denton Holme ward viable by supplying housing growth to enable electoral equality. Denton Holme also has had a significant area of the ward affected by flood risk which will impact on building rates there, having flooded in 2005. In 2015 the extent of the flooding was mainly confided to HF ward. At the start of the review process Denton Holme was 3% below the average electoral variance for the Council. However we feel because the new ward will have to have an electoral equality that is 40% bigger (and other wards will be achieving residential developments on top of that), to have a continuing Denton Holme based ward would require a supply of housing growth.
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Keeping a Sense of Community Our proposal retains the overwhelming bulk of Denton Holme only losing two areas. The first is the 69 properties over the Caldew in Boustead’s Grassing. We consider that the re-warding of the boundaries and the formation of a Currock & Upperby ward is a strong enough logic to add the only area of that area that isn’t in either. The second area is Polling District HF which for reasons of flood risk and road links we have moved into Castle. Denton Holme as outlined in this section has a strong sense of the volunteer and an established sense of community outreach. Our proposal enables this to continue to operate within an identifiable ward structure, enabling a single set of Councillors for these volunteer organisations to work with and signpost residents towards. Road Links Our ward alignment is easily accessible at all points by using the backbone of Dalston Road running through it. For some of its length this ward will also share a boundary with Newtown and Morton Central. The photo below shows the distance between the Longsowerby junction and the junction leading into polling district KC which is under 30 metres. In addition under the Local Plan site for KC and OC2 a number of alternative entrances leading to Dalston ward will be constructed for ease of access, which will further reinforce the linkages between these parts of the ward.
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Figure: Pavement link to KC from road opposite to Pirelli Factory (HE Polling District) and Dalston Rd junction with Richardson Street, the lorry in front of the car was turning into Morton estate.
Growth of Morton South in the Local Plan The figure below highlights the extent of the area given over to the Morton Masterplan from the South of Morton through to Peter Lane. Because this is a defined and extensive area of growth providing a substantial total number (over 800), we consider that if any further areas of planned new builds were added into this ward, there is a potential that it will become too concentrated with proposed new build. We feel that a sensible ward should have both an element of existing dwellings and proposed dwellings. Hence why we disagree with the City Council proposal here is that it draws all the western new build into one ward. As Councillors one of the most labour intensive areas of work is dealing with housing developments being proposed and built. Often a large number of residents get in touch very quickly, you organise some consultations, have to speak to developers and planners, take issues to the Development Committee ‘and then’ deal with the
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issues of the new developments being built and the new volumes of residents moving in and trying to establish a sense of community. This can last for many years. If you have several sites coming in one after another as will be the case on the west of the City we consider it would be better to not lump them together, but to logically separate them amongst the two wards, so the additional work load can be dealt with by two sets of ward Councillors.
Figure: Local Plan for Morton South (pink)
Clover Field as seen from the CNDR with Denton Holme and Morton behind.
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Public Transport Links The links between areas in the ward such as KC and Denton Holme are reinforced by the route public transport takes. Denton Holme is served by two routes that operates many times a day. The 69, which is internal to Denton Holme and the 62, a service that travels through Denton Holme into the KC district of Morton. As the developments in the Morton Masterplan bring more residential dwellings, the ambition in the masterplan is to use Section 106 contributions to enable this service to expand further reinforcing the linkage.
Figure: 62 and 69 Bus routes through Denton Holme and Morton South
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Response to the City Council Proposal: We anticipate that the LGBCE will also be in receipt of several other submissions, including one from the City Council Returning Officer. As a Group we have some concerns about the process that has been used, being put forward as an Officer Decision rather than having been debated in the Council Chamber where we could have raised these concerns. However we accept that as an organisation the Council has a right to submit an application. Some of our concerns are: 1. JD and JE Polling District. The 1997 LGBCE review we feel wisely moved the JD area into a ward entirely below the Eden Bridge. It contains the retail heart of the City and as such sits at odds with the proposed new ward in Stanwix. We feel these polling districts are better suited to a City centre ward (as is currently the case), in terms of their facilities and economic outlook rather than addition to an entirely residential area such as Stanwix. Also we would advise against using a single bridge as a ward link due to the potential effects of flood related bridge damage. 2. Wards number 4 and 5. We find the arrangement of wards 4 and 5 not very organic or logical. We can’t find a logical link between having a ward that links Longsowerby to half of Currock and a third of St Aidans. Likewise with ward 5, a ward that contains EA Polling District in an Upperby centered ward with the other half of Currock, there is a single very poor road link to EA from FB. This ward would be an incoherent mixture of two completely separate areas that are essentially divided by a river and a railway line. Electoral equality we think is better achieved through the straightforward combining of Currock with Polling Districts FA, FB and FC of Upperby, which will have much stronger physical link and far fewer physical limitations.
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3. Ward 9 (Kingstown and Belah). We have already received adverse comments from residents about changing the wards in the North of the City along an east/west spilt rather than a north/south one as it is currently. Areas of Belah such as St Anne’s will have very little in common with an area such as Houghton. The current arrangement of the North of the City between Stanwix (as the ward of the south and the east) and Belah (as the ward of the west and the north) works well in practice. We accept that given the need to grow all wards , both wards will have to organically grow into the surrounding parishes, but the better way we feel is to have both of them do this, rather than create a Belah and Kingstown ward that does it all but badly. Houghton’s road links are clearly with Stanwix and Knowefield along the Brampton Road, not with Belah. 4. RG Polling District. Under our proposals all rural polling districts trapped between the Motorway and the current urban area are to be realigned into the urban area. We feel that this is reasonable as they all link into the urban ward road network. Of the two maps the Group Leader and Deputy Leader were shown one has RG polling district used twice - in Ward 13 (Wetheral) and again in Ward 7 (Melbourne). 5. OC Polling District. The City Council submission places Polling Districts OC2 and OC3 entirely in ward 1 (Morton and West). Whilst we also agree that OC2 and OC3 have potential to come into urban wards (in our proposal into two wards - Sandsfield Ward and Denton Holme and Morton South) we did not go as far as to include them beyond the CNDR as we feel that area is very low density and much more rural. It’s hard to link the farming community of Newby West with the Morton estate. We also feel that as the Morton Masterplan is a very specifically targeted development having it included with OC3 with
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the current Yewdale urban fringe will create a ward which is very heavily focused on new builds and future developments. We calculate that this would result in one ward that would grow by 1,256 elects by 2023 (18%). Splitting OC3 and OC2 into separate wards in our proposal will allow for this future build but also retain it in wards that are already established. This would also allow for the sometimes complex and time-consuming work that Councillors face when developments are proposed and constructed, such as reading and commenting on applications, disputing information and handling objections, through to establishing contact with new residents to be split between two wards rather than concentrated in one. Lastly, also in having a ward taking such a large amount of proposed new build, there is an additional risk that if there was a future housebuilding recession, then one ward could find itself rapidly under electoral equality. Our proposal splits the new build in OC into two areas making it more recession proof. 6. Splitting Polling Districts FE and FD. Although not in the City Council proposal we understand that suggestions may be made to split polling districts FE and FD into two separate wards. In our view this is not practicable because they both meet in the middle of one street (Welsh Road). It would probably make more sense if that particular community, which does have a strong identity but also has socio-economic issues were kept within one ward, so that measures to assist the community were more efficient. However, there are some areas we agree on: 1. The expansion of the urban area. In the moving of the Parklands area (OH) in to Harraby and the bringing in the OC area into Carlisle is something we both agree on (though we do differ on the precise warding arrangement). It’s only sensible to bring in the areas that have become urban fringe developments over the last 20 years. 2. The creation of a Harraby South Ward.
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As an area of extensive house building in the OH Polling District, the style and road linkage provide an organic creation of a new ward. In our warding arrangements we were tempted to expand a Harraby South and Parklands ward into the OD polling district, to take in planning application 13/0983 which is currently under construction for 189 dwellings. We decided against it in our proposal as it would further reduce the Dalston total, whilst Harraby South was already at electoral equality. However we would recognise that there is a case for this to happen, and that in redefining the rural OD polling district boundary with the urban Harraby ward might be something the LGBCE would wish to consider. 3. Four rural based wards centered on the biggest rural settlements. Dalston, Wetheral, Longtown and Brampton are the four biggest settlements in the rural part of Carlisle District. As such the principle of having the rural wards based around them is logical. 4. Wards should have three members. The City Council proposal has three member wards throughout, as has ours. The guidance from the LGBCE for election by thirds highlights that three member wards are preferable. This has clearly been explained by the LGBCE and was raised when we discussed whether to move to all-out elections last year. We can see little need to vary from this. Introducing single and two member wards to an excessive degree will complicate the electoral cycle. Residents often get confused when they hear of local elections and don’t receive polling information or leaflets because their area is not up for election. Our group view is that three member wards even in the rural area are preferable to other options as duties can be divided amongst the Councillors, rather than leaving one Councillor to handle a large geographical ward.
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Concluding Statement: In summary we consider our submission provides an electorally equal warding arrangement and one which will make the most effective use of election by thirds, by having all areas as three member wards. It also organically grows the wards on the edge of the city that have had residential developments either in situ or planned up to 2023, redefining what is urban and what is rural. Where we have radically changed wards in the west of the City, this has a basis in the large scale infrastructure and housing changes that have occurred there since 1999. We consider that it is viable and offers a practical way forward which we hope the LGBCE will consider positively.
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Appendix 1- 2016 Warding Averages.
Appendix 2 – Copy of ‘Election by Thirds’ Council Debate.
Appendix 3 – Local Plans Map (2 in total).
Hard copy provided.
Appendix 4 – Map of Carlisle Bus Routes.
Appendix 5 – Map of CNDR Route and News Article.
Appendix 6 – News Report on Eden Bridge Closure.
Appendix 7 – News Report on Flood Risk Impacting on Residential Developments
Appendix 8 – Windfall Housing Developments in the Rural Area.
Appendix 9 – Email from LGBCE.
Appendix 10 – Local Plan U7 Site Map.
Appendix 11 – Crindledyke Cycleway.
Appendix 12 – Article on Newman School Relocation.
Appendix 13 – Local Plan site U4 (access into Harraby South Ward at Huntsman Lane).
Appendix 14 – Excel Sheets of our Proposed Warding Arrangements.
Sent as a separate attachment.
Appendix 15 – Breakdown of Polling Districts we propose to split. Sent as a separate attachment.
Appendix 16 - Map of all Urban Wards (hard copy only) Sent separately
Appendix 17 - Map of all Rural Wards (hard copy only) Sent separately
SANDSFIELD
Polling District MA
No. of No. of Street Properties Constituents Beaver Road 55 110 Burgh Road 79 156 Grinsdale Avenue 48 89 Marconi Road 1 2 Moor Park Avenue 74 169 Moorhouse Road 112 225 Palmer Road 31 65 Vallum Gardens 30 59 2023 growth 45 430 920
Polling District OC3
Arnison Close 26 42 Bleaberry Way 7 11 Bowfell Lane 17 27 Brackenleigh Close 35 62 Caven Close 3 6 Fellbarrow Close 18 31 Garden Village 18 37 Glaramara Drive 79 154 Melbreak Avenue 26 43 Raven Crag Close 9 17 2023 growth 101 238 531
NEWTOWN AND MORTON CENTRAL
Polling District MA
Green Lane 53 99 High Meadow 35 67 Low Meadow 35 62 Heysham Drive 28 53 Heysham Gardens 32 35 Heysham Meadows 18 24 2023 growth 40 201 380
Polling District KE
Greta Avenue 40 75 Dunmail Drive 20 45 60 120
DENTON HOLME AND MORTON SOUTH
Polling District KE
Bedford Road 18 36 Dalston Road 47 92 Kirkstone Crescent 19 30 Langdale Avenue 20 43 Scawfell Road 21 38 Shap Grove 21 42 Skiddaw Road 71 143 Whinlatter Way 20 30 2023 growth 11 237 465
Polling District HC
Ashman Close 16 19 Blunt Street 30 51 Bridge Terrace 10 13 Caldew Street 16 31 Colmore Street 7 17 Colville Street 52 82 Cumberland Court 29 32 Cumberland Street 17 29 Dale Court 8 12 Dale Street 28 47 Dalston Street 20 33 Denton Street 74 136 East Dale Street 27 35 East Norfolk Street 15 23 East Vale Court, East Dale 7 10 Street Freer Court 18 25 Freer Street 35 59 Holstead Close 13 22 Hope Street 20 27 Leicester Street 8 11 Norfolk Court, Norfolk 11 13 Street Norfolk Street 14 22 Norfolk Terrace 3 5 North Street 30 53 Northumberland St 2 4 Northumberland Street 1 4 Shankly Road 32 50 Teasdale Place 19 33 Westmorland Street 45 70 607 968
Polling District OC2
Clover Fields Drive 4 7 Daisy Avenue 16 33 Dalston Road 12 24 Foxglove Close 12 24 Meadow Lane 36 74 Peter Lane, Dalston Road 3 9 2023 growth 298 469
UPPERBY AND CURROCK
Polling District HC
Bousteads Grassing 30 51 Maryport Cottages 10 17 Maryport Court 12 19 52 87
Polling District GB
Almery Drive 66 129 Arthur Street 24 43 Beaconsfield Street 43 78 Blackwell Road 43 86 Boundary Road 67 116 Claire Street 8 22 Clementina Terrace 31 50 Currock Road 31 58 Esther Street 31 52 Gardenia Street 16 34 Gloucester Road 50 81 Goodwin Close 19 28 Goodwin Place 3 6 Harold Street 25 44 Harrison Street 63 93 Hasell Street 25 44 Millbank Court 10 19 Nicholson Street 8 14 Regent Street 11 17 Robinson Avenue 29 60 Robinson Street 4 7 Salisbury Road 3 5 Scalegate Road 4 12 Tithebarn Street 15 20 629 1118
CASTLE
Polling District GB
King Street 27 45 London Road 9 10 Woodrouffe Terrace 6 9 St Nicholas Street 26 46 St. Nicholas Street 1 1 South View Terrace 11 18 Princess Street 2 2 Currock Street 11 14 Crown Street 1 1 Court Square 1 1 Botchergate 4 6 99 153 Polling District CA
Broad Street 49 98 Eldred Street 53 100 Grace Street 21 29 Greystone Road 25 41 Irthing Street 12 21 Jackson Street 13 20 Petteril Street 104 217 River Street 36 67 Short Street 16 35 Tullie Street 26 56
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BOTCHERBY AND DURRANHILL
Polling District CA
Brunton Crescent 29 52 Brunton Avenue 32 62 Riverside Way 44 76 Warwick Road 181 368 Threave Court, Riverside Way 28 35 Thirlwell Avenue 5 9 Thirlwell Gardens 30 37 Greystone Road 73 118 St Aidans Road 31 59 St Aidan's Road 4 7 Lismore Place 2 4 Lismore Street 11 27 Waller Street 14 26 Victoria Place 9 27 Wallace Gardens 5 5
912
LONGTOWN, LYNE AND IRTHINGTON
Polling District PAU1
The Knells 1 3 Townhead Farm 1 2 Blackford 2 6 Harker 1 2 High Knells, Houghton 8 16 The Knells, Houghton 23 47 The Knells 1 7 37 83
STANWIX URBAN AND HOUGHTON
Polling District PAU1
Houghton 23 45 Tarraby 23 41 Antonine Way 52 91 Beech Grove 27 44 Beech Grove Gardens 5 10 Brampton Old Road 28 44 Brunstock Lane 1 2 Centurions Walk 12 33 Cross Close 18 27 Drawdykes Lane 8 16 Gladwin Drive 5 9 Green Lane 22 40 Hadrian Way 28 48 Hadrians Gardens 19 35 Hadrian's Gardens 1 4 Harker 1 2 Houghton 6 14 Houghton Hall 1 1 Houghton House 1 2 Houghton Road 53 100 Houghton Road North 14 24 Jackson Road 57 107 Oakbank 8 17 Orchard Gardens 8 13 Orchard Lane 13 17 Smithy Croft 30 62 South Croft 28 43 Tarraby 1 2 Tarraby Mews 4 9 The Green 34 72 Tribune Drive 150 283 Hadrian's Park, Brampton Old Road 3 5 2023 growth 20 684 1282
DALSTON AND BURGH
Polling District OC3
Orton Road 6 17 Newby West 15 28 Newby West 1 2 Newby West Farm 1 2 The Cottages, New House Farm 1 2 Little Orton Road 1 2 25 53
Polling District OC2
Grace Lane, Dalston Road 3 6 Lingey Close Road 1 3 Lingyclose Road 1 1 Newby Cross 8 20
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PD Parish Ward 2017 2023 6890 Dalston & Burgh
NA BEAUMONT Burgh 383 383 NB BURGH-BY-SANDS Burgh 608 644 NC BURGH-BY-SANDS Burgh 372 388 ND ORTON Burgh 352 357 OA DALSTON Dalston 1878 1915 OB DALSTON Dalston 297 301 OD ST.CUTHBERTST. CUTHBERT WITHOUT WITHOUT Dalston 247 576 OE ST.CUTHBERTST. CUTHBERT WITHOUT WITHOUT Dalston 309 335 OF ST.CUTHBERTST. CUTHBERT WITHOUT WITHOUT Dalston 601 1064 OG ST.CUTHBERTST. CUTHBERT WITHOUT WITHOUT Dalston 307 315 OC1 CUMMERSDALE Dalston 232 250 OC2 CUMMERSDALE Dalston 30 part OC3 CUMMERSDALE Dalston 53 part 5586 6611 -4.05%
Brampton
PAA HAYTON HAYTON Hayton 558 564 PAX WALTON Irthing 231 236 PG1 ASKERTON Irthing 67 68 PG2 KINGWATER Irthing 104 104 PH2 ASKERTON Irthing 33 35 PK BRAMPTON Brampton 2259 2609 PKA BRAMPTON Brampton 1171 1210 PL BRAMPTON Brampton 96 101 PO1 BURTHOLME Irthing 172 167 PO2 WATERHEAD Irthing 14 16 PP1 CASTLE CARROCK Great Corby & 252Geltsdale 262 PR1 CUMREW CARLATTONGreat & CUMREW Corby & Geltsdale75 79 PR2 CARLATTON CARLATTONGreat & CUMREW Corby & Geltsdale32 33 PS CUMWHITTON Great Corby & 249Geltsdale 259 PW NETHER DENTON Irthing 244 250 PX1 UPPER DENTON Irthing 73 73 PX2 WATERHEAD Irthing 77 88 PX3 KINGWATER Irthing 14 15 PY1 FARLAM Irthing 508 530 PY2 MIDGEHOLME Irthing 46 47 PAC HAYTON TALKIN Great Corby & 132Geltsdale 137
6407 6883 -0.10%
Longtown, Lyne and Irtington
PAE HETHERSGILL Lyne 308 314 PAF IRTHINGTON Stanwix Rural 569 569 PAG2 ROCKCLIFFE Longtown & Rockcliffe202 355 PAG3 ROCKCLIFFE Stanwix Rural 29 30 PAJ KIRKLINTON MIDDLE Lyne 304 308 PAK NICHOLFOREST Lyne 299 312 PAM ROCKCLIFFE Longtown & Rockcliffe387 415 PAR SCALEBY Stanwix Rural 293 305 PAS SOLPORT SOLPORT Lyne& STAPLETON122 130 PAT1 STANWIX RURALCROSBY & LINSTOCK Stanwix Rural 320 322 PAT2 IRTHINGTON Stanwix Rural 82 85 PAU1 STANWIX RURALHOUGHTON Stanwix Rural 83 83 part PAY WESTLINTON Longtown & Rockcliffe294 308 PE1 ARTHURET Longtown & Rockcliffe1021 1211 PE2 ARTHURET Longtown & Rockcliffe736 932 PE3 KIRKANDREWS Longtown & Rockcliffe108 112 PE4 KIRKANDREWS Longtown & Rockcliffe157 164 PF1 ARTHURET Longtown & Rockcliffe61 63 PF2 KIRKANDREWS Longtown & Rockcliffe92 95 PH1 BEWCASTLE Lyne 332 339 PAW STAPLETON SOLPORT Lyne& STAPLETON211 208
6010 6660 -3.34%
Wetheral and Corby Hill
RA WETHERALCUMWHINTON Wetheral 481 510 RB WETHERALCUMWHINTON Wetheral 405 524 RC WETHERALSCOTBY Wetheral 1204 1441 RD WETHERALAGLIONBY Wetheral 185 214 RE WETHERALWETHERAL Wetheral 1007 1284 RF WETHERALAGLIONBY Wetheral 209 215 PAB1 HAYTON HEADS NOOK Hayton 312 332 PAB2 WETHERALGREAT CORBY Great Corby & 259Geltsdale 277 PAD HAYTON CORBY HILL Hayton 736 856 PBB WETHERALGREAT CORBY Great Corby & 341Geltsdale 352 PBC WETHERALGREAT CORBY Great Corby & 358Geltsdale 493
5497 6498 -5.69%
Sandsfield
LA Yewdale 1013 1038 LB Yewdale 1201 1225 LC Yewdale 1071 1113 LD Yewdale 859 889 LE Yewdale 416 468 MA Belle Vue 875 920 part MB Belle Vue 998 1019 OC3 Dalston 583 part
7255 5.30%
Newtown and Morton Central
KA Morton 839 863 KB Morton 1104 1234 KD Morton 647 669 KE Morton 120 part KF Morton 21 25 MA Belle Vue 380 part MC Belle Vue 1354 1674 MD Belle Vue 518 538 ME Belle Vue 564 600 MG Belle Vue 50 58 MH Belle Vue 65 68 JA Castle 804 861 MF Belle Vue 47 51
7141 3.64% Denton Holme and Morton South
HA Denton Holme315 405 HB Denton Holme863 882 HC Denton Holme987 968 part HD Denton Holme803 1004 HE Denton Holme1153 1175 KC Morton 1313 1838 KE Morton 465 part OC2 Cummersdale Dalston 469 part
7206 4.59%
Belah and Kingmoor
AA Belah 1058 1076 AB Belah 851 876 AC Belah 759 767 AD Belah 1073 1370 AE Belah 813 1092 AF Belah 43 43 AG Belah 95 97 AH Belah 9 11 PAG1 KINGMOOR Stanwix Rural 338 670 PAH KINGMOOR Stanwix Rural 431 443 PBK STANWIX RURALWOLSTY Stanwix Rural 136 138
5606 6583 -4.46%
Stanwix Urban and Houghton BA Stanwix Urban1165 1191 BB Stanwix Urban829 849 BC Stanwix Urban1140 1176 BD Stanwix Urban1020 1038 BE STANWIX RURALVALLUM Stanwix Urban200 200 BF STANWIX RURALPENNINGTON Stanwix Urban159 375 PAU1 STANWIX RURALHOUGHTON Stanwix Rural 1282 part PAU2 STANWIX RURALCROSBY & LINSTOCK Stanwix Rural 101 100 PAV STANWIX RURALCROSBY & LINSTOCK Stanwix Rural 320 338
6549 -4.95%
Upperby and Currock
FA Upperby 811 847 FB Upperby 747 781 FC Upperby 958 1111 GA Currock 840 863 GB Currock 1118 part GC Currock 878 922 GD Currock 1080 1114 GE Currock 61 63 GF Currock 10 10 GG Currock 194 200 HC Denton Holme 87 part
7116 3.28%
Harraby South and Parklands EB Harraby 1218 1262 EC Harraby 616 640 ED Harraby 1121 1152 EE ST.CUTHBERTWATERMANS WITHOUT Harraby 256 261 EF Harraby 435 440 EG Harraby 54 53 FD Upperby 506 535 FE Upperby 699 739 OH ST.CUTHBERTGARLANDS WITHOUT Dalston 962 1302 RH ST.CUTHBERTHUNTSMAN WITHOUT Wetheral 202 472
6856 -0.49%
Botcherby and Durranhill
CA St. Aidans 912 part DA Botcherby 1301 1379 DB Botcherby 691 890 DC Botcherby 733 753 DD Botcherby 789 892 DE Botcherby 714 786 EA Harraby 1110 1156 RG WETHERALDURRANHILL Wetheral 227 353
7121 3.35%
Castle
CA St. Aidans 684 part CB St. Aidans 704 725 CC St. Aidans 346 381 CD St. Aidans 1412 1549 CE St. Aidans 9 9 CF St. Aidans 19 20 CG St. Aidans 21 26 CH St. Aidans 12 13 GB Currock 153 part HF Denton Holme415 449 JB Castle 542 607 JC Castle 1141 1174 JD Castle 686 740 JE Castle 499 537 JF Castle 20 21 JG Castle 22 23 JH Castle 0 0 JK Castle 115 121
7232 4.96% OC1 Cummersdale Dalston 232 250 OC2 Cummersdale Dalston 199 499 OC3 Cummersdale Dalston 481 584
Electorate 89711