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BOUNDARY COMMISSION for NORTHERN IRELAND Fifth BOUNDARY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND Fifth Periodical Report on Parliamentary Constituencies Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to section 3 (5) of the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 and by Command of Her Majesty March 2008 Cm 7321 London: The Stationery Office £33.45 Crown Copyright 2007 The text in this document (excluding the Royal Arms and departmental logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium providing that it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context. The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyright and the title of the document specified. Any enquiries relating to the copyright in this document should be addressed to The Information Policy Team, OPSI, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich, NR3 1BQ. Fax: 01603 723000 or e-mail: [email protected] CONSTITUTION The Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland are constituted in accordance with section 2 of and Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986: Chairman: *The Speaker of the House of Commons The Rt Hon Michael Martin, MP Deputy Chairman: The Hon Mr Justice Coghlin Members: Mr Richard Mackenzie CB Mrs Joan Ruddock CBE Assessors: The Registrar General in Northern Ireland Dr Norman Caven The Commissioner of Valuation for Northern Ireland Mr David Raineyx The Chief Electoral Officer for Northern Ireland Mr Douglas Bain CBE TD† ___________________ The Chief Survey Officer, Ordnance Survey for Northern IrelandØ provides professional advice on matters affecting Ordnance Survey responsibilities ! Assistant Commissioners : Mr Thomas Stewart Beattie Mr Patrick Good Mr Colin Haddick Mr James Toolan Secretary: Mr John Fisher *The Deputy Chairman, by custom, presided at all meetings of the Commission but the Speaker was kept fully informed of the progress of the work of the Commission. xMr David Rainey was appointed Commissioner of Valuation in September 2006 in succession to Mr Nigel Woods. †Mr Douglas Bain was appointed Chief Electoral Officer in June 2006 in succession to Mr Denis Stanley who retired in March 2006. ØMr Iain Greenway was appointed Chief Survey Officer of Ordnance Survey in July 2006 in succession to Mr Mick Cory who relinquished his appointment in April 2005. ! The appointments of assistant Commissioners expired in March 2006. Fifth Periodical Report on Parliamentary Constituencies CONTENTS CHAPTER Page 1 Introduction....................................................................................................... 1 2 Procedure.......................................................................................................... 3 3 Statutory Provisions.......................................................................................... 5 4 Provisional Recommendations.......................................................................... 7 5 Local Inquiries.................................................................................................. 9 6 Revised Recommendations............................................................................. 13 7 Restructuring of Local Government ............................................................... 20 8 Final Recommendations.................................................................................. 22 9 Recommendations for Change........................................................................ 29 10 Acknowledgements......................................................................................... 33 APPENDIX A Rules for Redistribution of Seats .................................................................... 35 B Statement of Reasons for Provisional Recommendations .............................. 39 C Reports of Local Inquiries .............................................................................. 45 Annex I - Inquiry in Belfast ................................................................. 47 Annex II - Inquiry in Ballymena .......................................................... 99 Annex III - Inquiry in Newcastle ....................................................... 121 D Composition of Recommended Constituencies ........................................... 143 E Electorates of Recommended Constituencies .............................................. 155 F Maps of Recommended Constituencies ....................................................... 157 1. Introduction 1. The Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland are constituted under the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986, as amended by the Boundary Commissions Act 1992, to keep under continuous review the number, names, designation and boundaries of parliamentary constituencies in Northern Ireland and to submit to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland periodical reports with their recommendations. The Commission are no longer required by section 28(2) of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 to submit a supplementary report showing the number of members which the Commission recommend should be returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly by each proposed constituency. The Northern Ireland Act 1998 now provides that each constituency shall return six members. 2. The Commission last reported on 20 June 1995. The Commission’s Report1 was laid before Parliament and effect given to their recommendations, without modification by Order in Council2, by both Houses of Parliament and made on 23 November 1995. The Order came into operation on 7 December 1995. 3. The Parliamentary Constituencies Act provides that, in formulating recommendations, so far as is practicable, no local authority ward should be included partly in one constituency and partly in another. In 1990, and prior to the Commission’s Fourth Periodical Review, the Commission urged the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to take steps to conduct an early and speedy review of local government boundaries. The Commission were anxious to avoid the confusion which had been caused by the Commission’s 1982 report being followed in 1984 by the report of the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner. This had resulted in many local authority wards being divided between constituencies. The Commission were therefore grateful that the Local Government Boundaries Commissioner (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 enabled the last local government review to be completed earlier than would have otherwise been possible, and prior to the Commission’s Fourth Periodical Report. 4. In recommendations affecting the conduct of future boundary reviews, the Commission proposed in their last report3 that this sequence of reviews should be preserved and that consideration be given to amendment of the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 to enable, once again, the next review of local government boundaries to be brought forward. The Commission, however, were informed by the Secretary of State in March 2003 that, whereas it was desirable that local government and district electoral area boundaries should be reviewed wherever possible ahead of the Commission’s own periodical reviews, the devolution of responsibility for local government to the Northern Ireland Assembly and the announced Review of Public Administration4 by the Northern Ireland Executive affecting the structure of local government, had delayed the appointment of a Local Government Boundaries Commissioner, thereby disturbing the desired sequence and synchronization of boundary reviews. Given the time constraints, the need for the Commission to report no later than 2007 and the significant changes in constituency electorates since their last review, the Commission concluded that they needed to proceed to 1 Boundary Commission for Northern Ireland. Fourth Periodical Report on Parliamentary Constituencies and Second Supplementary Report on the number of members to be returned to the Northern Ireland Assembly by each of those constituencies (Cmnd 2949, October 1995) 2 Representation of the People. Redistribution of Seats and Review of Election Arrangements. The Parliamentary Constituencies (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. 3 Supra, Fourth Periodical Report, Chapter 8, paragraphs 4 to 6, pp.31 and 32. 4 The terms of reference of the Review were: ‘In line with the political agreement of 18 December 1998, which sets out policy responsibilities, and reflecting the Executive’s vision as described in the Programme for Government, to review the existing arrangements for the accountability, development, administration and delivery of public services in Northern Ireland, and to bring forward options for reform which are consistent with the arrangements and principles of the Belfast Agreement, within an appropriate framework of political and financial accountability’. 1 their Fifth Periodical Review on the basis of the then existing local government structure and boundaries in Northern Ireland. 5. When the Commission considered the size of constituency electorates in early 2003, they were acutely aware of the extent to which the overall number of parliamentary electors in Northern Ireland had reduced, and especially so in relation to the four Belfast borough constituencies. The Commission gave careful consideration both to the reasons for this and also to the legislative changes affecting the franchise5 since concluding their last Review. There had also been changes in registration procedure6 affecting inter alia the homeless, service voters, patients in mental hospitals and persons remanded in custody. Significantly the Chief Electoral Officer no longer had discretion to allow
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