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Local Residents Submissions to the North Somerset District Council Electoral Review Local Residents submissions to the North Somerset District Council electoral review This PDF document contains 20 submissions from Local Residents. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Click on the submission you would like to view. If you are not taken to that page, please scroll through the document. Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 03 April 2014 17:01 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes From: Robin Cordina Sent: 03 April 2014 16:27 To: Reviews@ Subject: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes Dear Sirs I live in 23 Sixty Ares Close, Failand. I would like to object to the proposed changes to the ward boundaries for North Somerset as depicted by Map B. I feel the changes would have a detrimental effect on local democracy and the community identity in the parish of Wraxall & Failand. The Wraxall & Failand Parish is currently well served by two District Councillors, the proposals shown at Map B divides our parish between two wards and four Councillors, who are unlikely to have the experience or affinity with this parish. The ward boundaries proposed do not reflect the geography of the area or the local communities. The original proposal that associated Wraxall & Failand with Long Ashton referred to as ‘Map A’ is a much better solution. I urge you to revert to this proposal. Thanks for your consideration Robin Robin Cordina Senior Surveyor Williams Gunter Hardwick is a member of PAI The Independent Commercial Property Consultants Network. More information can be found at www.pai.uk.com. IMPORTANT: This communication and the information contained herein is intended only for the person(s) and/or organisation(s) named above. It may be confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Please be aware that unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any or all of its contents may be unlawful. Any opinions or advice contained herein are subject to Williams Gunter Hardwick Ltd's standard terms and conditions of business. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, destroying any copies and deleting it from your system. 76 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 20 March 2014 09:09 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Proposed boundary changes- North Somerset From: Charles Crawfurd Sent: 19 March 2014 09:42 To: Reviews@ Subject: Proposed boundary changes- North Somerset Dear Sir I have just learnt with disbelief, the latest crackpot idea to come out of North Somerset Council! To suggest creating a "superward" of "Churchill and Wrington" comprising 9 parishes with 3 councillors shows not only a complete lack of knowledge or understanding of practicalities it also shows the disdain that we are treated by those sitting in their ivory tower in Weston or Clevedon. I live in Blagdon, one of the 9 parishes and we are already under the impression of being treated as 2nd class citizens when it comes to Council services and expenditure and to know to try to marginalise us even further is completely unacceptable I therefore want to record my complete rejection of this ridiculous idea. Frankly the person who came up with it ought to be sacked! I support Blagdon Parish Council's view that the original proposal put forward by NSC of a Churchill and Blagdon ward is the correct and sensible way forward. Yours faithfully (and very angry!) Charles Crawfurd Blagdon 186 Cooper, Mark From: Egan, Helen Sent: 07 April 2014 09:53 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes Hi Mark, Please see below submission for North Somerset. Helen From: Iris Croome Sent: 05 April 2014 10:56 To: Reviews@ Subject: North Somerset Proposed Ward Boundary Changes Dear Sirs,i wish to object to the proposed changes for North Somerset as shown in Map B,these would have a very detrimental effect on the local community in the Parish of Wraxall with Failand. .I urge you to revert to this proposal Yours Sincerely Iris Croome 52 Cooper, Mark From: Egan, Helen Sent: 17 March 2014 10:00 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Review Hi Mark, Please see below a submission for North Somerset. Regards, Helen From: Nicholas Cush Sent: 16 March 2014 20:06 To: Cooper, Mark; Reviews@ Subject: Re: North Somerset Review Dear Sirs, Proposed changes to ward boundaries in North Somerset Cleeve has no links with Wrington, children go to different ‘feeder’ schools, Wrington to Churchill and Cleeve to Backwell. Our links to Yatton are old and strong, whether that be Church, Schools, Doctors, Libraries or sport facilities. The local families are integrated in the community. The demographics of Cleeve & Wrington are also a major difference, walking to Yatton is simple, Wrington is over a large hill with no direct bus route. We might as well be linked to any other small Parish in the country as it seems the sole purpose is to even out the numbers and not look at the individual communities involved. We note you are now proposing a 3 councillor ward encompassing Wrington, Congresbury and Churchhill all of whom link into the same Secondary School unlike Cleeve. Having looked at the response from Wrington Parish Council in June 2013 they do not include Cleeve in any one of their 6 proposed options. From the figures they supply together with those on your own website a two councillor ward could serve a maximum electorate of 7321, Yatton has 6537 and Cleeve 758 if they stay together it would still be within your 10% tolerance (7295). Yours Faithfully Nicholas Cush From: "Cooper, Mark" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 12 March 2014, 15:41 Subject: North Somerset Review Dear Mr Cush, My colleague has passed me your email via our website and I am writing in response. The further consultation in North Somerset has not ended. The consultation is open until the 7th April and further details can be found here - http://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/south-west/somerset/north-somerset-fer 199 Cooper, Mark From: Fuller, Heather Sent: 27 March 2014 11:06 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: North Somerset Council Boundary Review - Winford Ward From: martin.cutlan Sent: 26 March 2014 12:11 To: Reviews@ Subject: : North Somerset Council Boundary Review - Winford Ward Dear Sir, Re: North Somerset Council Boundary Review - Winford Ward We wish to make objections to the current proposal affecting windford ward, making a two member Long Ashton ward thus including Regil, Felton and Winford, barrow Gurney aand Dundry Reasons: 1) Long Ashton is very different. It is a small town compared with the other Green Belt villages. It is urban in nature, It's needs are very different to the rest of the proposed ward's. Winford's direct links to Long Ashton is blocked by two busy 'A' roads and a railway line. As Long Ashton is by far the largest part of the proposed two member ward, councillors would tend to come from there and Long Ashton would be their primary focus. Councillors from Long Ashton would have different priorities and concepts to village based councillors. Rural communities have substantially different needs to urban areas. We feel it would be very difficult to have a fair representation of the existing Winford ward's villages needs. 2) Felton has a common of some 100acres that need managing. Long Ashton does not have this issue. 3) Long Ashton doesn't have an international airport whereas the other three parishes either have an airport or are closely affected by it. Issues such as aircraft noise levels and airport traffic could get neglected. 4) Councillors attendance at Parish Council meetings would become more difficult and attention to local issues in a rural area with single track roads, pothole and drainage problems might well not receive much attention. 5) Dundry and Winford civil parishes are at the extreme edge of North Somerset and great efforts have to be made to gain the attention and support of North Somerset Officers to ensure we get our fair share of spending. 6) Winford has a composting site to manage. We understand that the remit of LGBCE is to reduce the number of councillors from 61 to 50. The initial proposal to group the existing Winford and Dundry ward with the additional civil parishes of Barrow Gurney and Flax Bourton was much better and we feel this would be the best option. An alternative would be have Long Ashton as a separate ward with one councillor and Winford, Dundry and Barrow Gurney as a separate ward with one councillor, possibly with the addition of Butcombe. Yours sincerely, Martin & Denise Cutlan 143 Cooper, Mark From: Bowden, Tim Sent: 12 March 2014 14:18 To: Cooper, Mark Subject: FW: Revised boundary proposal for Leigh Woods Tim Bowden Review Manager Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House 76-86 Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Tel: 020 7664 8514 www.lgbce.org.uk It would help us if you would take a few minutes to answer a few questions about your experience of how we dealt with you. How are we doing? - Click on this link to give us your views From: Roger Davies Sent: 12 March 2014 12:13 To: Reviews@ Subject: Revised boundary proposal for Leigh Woods Dear Sir/ Madam We wish to support the revised proposals for our area of North Somerset. We wish to be part of the 2 member Pill and Easton in Gordano ward as we feel this would best serve our local connections which lie along the A369, as our previous representations have stated.
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