What happens next? We have now completed our review of Council. May 2019 Summary Report The recommendations must now be approved by Parliament. A draft order - the legal document which brings The full report and detailed maps: into force our recommendations - will be laid in Parliament. consultation.lgbce.org.uk www.lgbce.org.uk Subject to parliamentary scrutiny, the new electoral arrangements will come into force at the local elections in @LGBCE 2022.

Our recommendations:

The table lists all the wards we are proposing as part of our final recommendations along with the number of Harrow Council voters in each ward. The table also shows the electoral variances for each of the proposed wards, which tells you how we have delivered electoral equality. Finally, the table includes electorate projections for 2024 so you Final recommendations on the new electoral can see the impact of the recommendations for the future. arrangements

Ward Number of Electorate Number of Variance Electorate Number of Variance Name: Councillors: (2018): Electors per from (2024): Electors per from Councillor: average % Councillor: Average %

Belmont 2 6,818 3,409 2% 6,657 3,328 -5% Canons 2 7,139 3,570 6% 7,292 3,646 4% Centenary 3 10,298 3,433 2% 10,092 3,364 -4% Edgware 3 11,153 3,718 11% 10,886 3,629 3% Greenhill 3 6,257 2,086 -38% 10,382 3,461 -2% 2 7,121 3,561 6% 7,398 3,699 5% 3 10,580 3,527 5% 10,318 3,439 -2% 2 7,303 3,652 9% 7,133 3,567 1% Headstone 3 10,529 3,510 5% 10,583 3,528 0% Kenton East 3 10,652 3,551 6% 10,330 3,443 -2% Kenton West 2 7,518 3,759 12% 7,318 3,659 4% Who we are: Electoral review: ■ The Local Government Boundary Commission for An electoral review examines and proposes new Marlborough 3 7,328 2,443 -27% 10,964 3,655 4% is an independent body set up by Parliament. electoral arrangements for a local authority, including: 2 6,814 3,407 1% 6,974 3,487 -1% ■ We are not part of government or any political party. ■ The total number of councillors representing the ■ We are accountable to Parliament through a council’s voters (‘council size’). 3 10,269 3,423 2% 10,101 3,367 -4% committee of MPs chaired by the Speaker of the House ■ The names, number and boundaries of wards or Pinner South 3 11,402 3,801 13% 11,367 3,789 8% of Commons. electoral divisions. ■ Our main role is to carry out electoral reviews of local ■ The number of councillors for each ward or division. 2 7,085 3,543 6% 7,113 3,556 1% authorities throughout England. 2 6,764 3,382 1% 6,889 3,445 -2% Our proposals: Why Harrow? ■ Harrow Council currently has 63 3 10,699 3,566 6% 10,775 3,592 2% ■ The Commission has a legal duty to carry out an councillors. Based on the evidence we received, we electoral review of each council in England ‘from time to recommend that should serve the 3 10,125 3,375 1% 10,738 3,579 2% 55 councillors time.’Harrow Council has not been reviewed since 1999. borough in the future. North 2 6,741 3,371 0% 6,595 3,298 -6% ■ Therefore the Commission has decided that it should ■ We believe our final recommendations meet our review Harrow in advance of the elections in 2022 varies statutory criteria to: Wealdstone South 2 5,042 2,521 -25% 6,663 3,332 -5% depending on where you live in Harrow (1) Deliver electoral equality for voters. 2 7,003 3,502 4% 7,029 3,514 0% (2) Reflect community interests and identities. (3) Promote effective and convenient local government. Totals: 55 184,640 - - 193,598 - - Averages: - - 3,357 - - 3,520 - Summary of our recommendations

We have considered all the submissions we received Overview of final recommendations for during our consultation on our draft recommendations.

The final recommendations propose that Harrow Harrow Council Council should have 55 councillors . This is 8 fewer View this map online and explore it in more detail at: than the current number of councillors. consultation.lgbce.org.uk

Those councillors should represent 11 three-councillor Follow us on Twitter: @LGBCE wards, and 11 two-councillor wards. If you are viewing this page online, click on the map to go Harrow should have 22 wards, one more than there are straight to our interactive consultation area. now. The boundaries of all of the existing wards should change.

An outline of the proposals is shown in the map to the right. A detailed report on the recommendations and interactive mapping is available on our website at: www.lgbce.org.uk .

Find out more: consultation.lgbce.org.uk :

■ view the map of our recommendations down to street level. ■ zoom into the areas that interest you most. ■ find more guidance on the review process. ■ read the full report of our recommendations.

Stage of Description review

31 July 2018 - Public consultation on new 8 October 2018 ward boundaries

4 December 2018 - Public consultation on draft 11 February 2019 recommendations

2 April 2019 - Further limited consultation on 29 April 2019 draft recommendations

28 May 2019 Publication of final recommendations Subject to parliamentary contains Ordnance approval - implementation of Survey data © May 2022 new arrangements at local Crown copyright elections and database rights 2019