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Parish and Town Councils Submissions to the Doncaster Council Electoral Review Parish and Town Councils submissions to the Doncaster Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from Parish and Town Councils. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Click on the submission you would like to view. If you are not taken to that page, please scroll through the document. 31st January 2014 Mr. S. Keal, Review Officer (Doncaster), The Local Government Boundary Commission for England, 3rd Floor, Layden House, 76-86 Turnmill Street, London, EC1M 5LG. Dear Mr. Keal, Electoral Review of Doncaster I thank you for your letter of 26th November 2014, with enclosure in connection with the above, the contents of which were considered by the Parish Council at a meeting held on 28th January 2014. As a result, the Parish Council resolved that representations be made to you requesting that The Local Government Boundary Commission for England, recommends in its current review of warding arrangements for Doncaster, that the Parish of Armthorpe continue as a single Ward as at present. The Parish Council’s reasons for this are as follows:- 1 Number of Electors The electorate figures on the Commission’s website show that for 2013 there are 11,126 electors in Armthorpe and that the electoral forecast for 2019 is 11,232. Armthorpe currently has three ward councillors and on the basis that the Commission is looking for an optimum number of 4,237 electors per councillor, it is self evident that Armthorpe does not qualify to continue as a stand alone Ward, as it would need a total of 12,711 electors. If the Commission’s 10% variance either way is taken into account, Armthorpe would require a minimum of 11,440 electors by 2019. That would leave a deficiency of only 208 electors (i.e. 69.3 electors per Ward councillor), which in the whole scheme of things is de minimis. Despite this, it is apparent that this forecast does not to take account of the significant house building programme that will take place in Armthorpe during the period 2011 to 2028. In this respect, there is a requirement in Doncaster’s statutory Local Development Framework Core Strategy, for Armthorpe to provide between 646 and 923 new houses. It is self evident, therefore, that there will be a significant increase in the number of electors in Armthorpe during this period. It will exceed the electoral forecast for 2019 and go some way to achieving the optimum number of electors that the Commission seeks. 2 Community Identity Armthorpe village is self contained with its own identity. The village is surrounded on three sides, namely, the north, south and east, by swathes of agricultural land. To the west it is bounded by the former South Yorkshire Mineral Railway Line and a golf course. As a consequence, the village and the whole parish are separated from all nearby villages. It is an ancient civil parish and initially was a farming community, with its lands being enclosed by the Armthorpe Enclosure Award of 1774- 1775. It has an ancient Parish Church (of St. Leonard and St. Mary), which was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In 1916 Markham Main Colliery was sunk but work was stopped owing to the First World War. The work continued in the early 1920’s when a model village was built. During the 1980’s the colliery had 1,500 employees, the majority of whom lived in Armthorpe. The colliery finally closed in 1996. The site is now a housing estate comprising 800 plus dwellings. Despite the closure of the colliery, Armthorpe is recognised throughout the Doncaster area as a former mining community, which to this day features a large Welfare Park at the centre of the village. Its facilities include bowling greens, football pitch, basketball court, band room for the Markham Main Colliery Band, areas of open space and a Miners Memorial Garden. No neighbouring communities share this mining heritage. Armthorpe Parish Council is one of the largest parish/town councils in the Doncaster area, with 15 elected Members. It was established in 1894 under the provisions of the Local Government Act of that year. The composition of its Members is mixed; in as much as there are 7 independent Members and 8 who belong to a political party. Its expenditure for the current financial year is estimated at £304,718. It is very active in local affairs and organises many community functions. It has its own allotment site whose tenancies are restricted to local residents. It also owns and manages a modern community centre, a large burial ground and local parks. Village housing is mixed between former colliery houses, council properties and private housing. It has four primary schools and one secondary school (The Armthorpe Academy). The village is a closely knit one and its residents integrate well with each other. It has three shopping centres, two large supermarkets, two doctors’ practices, a local scout group, a brownie pack group, an air cadet training corps, a number of local football teams, a St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, a youth centre, a leisure centre with swimming pool, a library, two village brass bands, a Women’s Institute, three social clubs, a Miners Welfare Park and community centre (both previously referred to above). Armthorpe is identified in Doncaster’s Local Development Framework Core Strategy as a principal town in the Settlement Hierarchy for Doncaster Borough. 3 Localism As a result of the provisions of the Localism Act 2011 that made amendments to the Town and Country Planning Acts, the Parish Council has taken the opportunity to have a say in the future development of the whole parish. In this respect, in 2012 it applied to the local planning authority, Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council, for consent to prepare a neighbourhood development plan. This application was approved and the process is now well advanced. A Draft Armthorpe Neighbourhood Development Plan will be published on its website www.armthorpeparishcouncil.co.uk on 3rd February 2014 for a statutory period of 6 weeks. The Draft Plan contains proposals for new housing sites, employment sites, transport and highways, the village centre, leisure and community facilities, etc. Two housing sites have been allocated to provide between 700 and 800 new houses during the period 2011 to 2028. Another site is identified in the Draft Plan and encouraged to come forward for residential development with the potential for approximately 185 dwellings. The Draft Plan also contains provisions to ensure there is no coalescence with neighbouring communities by retaining areas of countryside as green wedges. These green wedges are protected from development by being included in Countryside Policy Protection Areas. Two major housing developers have accepted and recognised the need for these substantial green wedges, which are fundamentally designed to ensure Armthorpe will continue to be a distinct community separate from any others. In the circumstances, the Parish Council considers that the above meets the statutory criteria that the Commission has to have regard to in making its recommendations on the warding arrangements relating to Armthorpe. Furthermore, the Council’s representations fully meet the community identities and interests criterion, as the Parish of Armthorpe has fixed boundaries that will remain easily identifiable and provide a clear and long-lasting boundary for the Armthorpe Ward. Yours sincerely, Clerk to the Council. Minute no 012/01/14 of the 8th January 2014 LGBCE Electoral Review of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council: Ward Boundaries. Reponse from Barnburgh and Harlington Parish Council Introduction. Following its previous submission about the future size of Doncaster Council, the Barnburgh and Harlington Parish Council is now pleased to be able to contribute to the LGBCE’s consultation on future ward boundaries, for a pattern of wards to be served by the proposed number of 54 ward councillors envisaged to be in place from 2015. At its 11th December, 2013, meeting, the Parish Council had access to the letter from the LGBCE’s Director of Reviews to the Chief Executive of DMBC, as well as information and guidance relating to the current consultation on ward boundaries; the Parish Council agreed to respond to the consultation exercise and at its 8th January, 2014, meeting gave approval for this paper to be submitted the Commission. The Rationale of this Response. By way of background to explain why the Parish Council’s response has been formulated as set out below, the following points need to be taken into account: whilst this submission refers briefly to the size, population, and electorate of the Sprotbrough ward within which the villages of Barnburgh and Harlington are located, the Parish Council has decided not to suggest any specific changes to the current boundaries of the Sprotbrough ward - or indeed any other ward - but rather to concentrate on the interests and identities of the local communities in the southern area of the ward, with the objective of influencing the Commission in any changes it may propose to the existing ward boundaries. Absent any further more specific guidance at present about the future likely number of ward councillors to be proposed for the Sprotbrough ward, the Parish Council has come to the view that for it to propose particular ward boundary changes could only be speculative, hence its decision to concentrate upon the case for maintaining within the ward the existing strong community identities and character. in respect of the Commission’s intention to deliver electoral equality for local voters, the Parish Council is in full support of this approach, difficult though it may be to achieve across all Doncaster’s wards; as regards the Sprotbrough ward, the Parish Council is aware that this is one of the bigger wards in terms of area, but with the smallest population and the smallest electorate of all the current wards.
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