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‐‐ Jonathan Ashby Review Assistant LGBCE 0330 500 1252
From: Sent: 23 September 2016 16:08 To: reviews
Dear Richard,
Please find attached Manchester City Council's submission on Warding Patterns as part of the Electoral Review of Manchester. This submission was approved at a meeting of Full Council which took place on 21 September 2016.
The submission comprises the following three documents:
1. Manchester City Council's Response to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s consultation on Warding Patterns including Appendices 1 and 2 2. Appendix 3 Proposed Warding Patterns 3. Appendix 4 Current Warding Patterns
Please note that Appendices 3 and 4 will be sent in separate emails because of file size. We have had to reduce the size of Appendix 3 to get it through our system. If there is any issue with the quality of these maps please let me know.
I have also sent you a hard copy of the complete submission in the post which should arrive on Monday.
Mark Cooper has requested the shape files for the proposed Warding Patterns, which I have sent directly to him.
I would be grateful if you could acknowledge receipt of this email and its attachments.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further information.
Kind regards
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Emma Burnett Head of Electoral Services Electoral Services Unit Manchester City Council Room 134 Manchester M60 2LA
www.manchester.gov.uk
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Electoral Review of Manchester City Council
Response to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s consultation on Warding Patterns
21 September 2016
Executive Summary
Manchester in 2016 is a very different place to the Manchester subject to the city’s last electoral review in 2002. After fifteen years of unprecedented population growth and transformation within the economy, the current electoral review takes place at a time when the city is in a period of significant demographic change. The devolution journey underway in Greater Manchester is reshaping the local political landscape and the configuration of public services in the city, yet major challenges remain not least allied to a changing national policy landscape, the UK’s impending exit from the European Union and continued austerity measures.
The recently published Our Manchester Strategy looks to respond to these changes with a vision for the city that seeks to cement Manchester’s position in the top flight of world-class cities by 2025. The Strategy sets out a shared vision that reflects the ambition of the city, whilst understanding the challenges Manchester will face over the next 10 years will be just as significant as those in the past.
Our Manchester is the new approach being adopted to underpin delivery of the strategy, focusing on unlocking the potential which already exists within the city and continuing to seek creative and innovative approaches through collaborative working with partner organisations. The city’s democratically elected representatives will play a central role in delivering Our Manchester, working with broader groups of residents, public sector partners, voluntary and community sector organisations and businesses to develop an asset based approach to encourage greater local engagement.
The warding patterns proposed in this submission will form critical building blocks for the future delivery of this approach. Our Manchester relies on ward boundaries which truly reflect the communities they serve, bringing partners and communities with shared interests and identities within clearly recognised geographical boundaries. The City Council considers that the current review of Manchester’s electoral arrangements provides a timely opportunity to revisit arrangements for the effective administration of local government and public services across Manchester.
Full details of the proposals for each of the four ward clusters is set out in this submission. All proposed warding patterns respond to the statutory criteria governing electoral reviews. Such is the scale of the city’s growth over the last fifteen years, the scheme proposed in this submission includes some element of change to 31 of the Council’s 32 ward boundaries.
The proposed boundaries continue to respect the recognised geographical ‘building blocks’ provided by the natural and man-made physical alignments. At the same time, warding patterns seek to capture the characteristics of the city’s established and emerging communities whilst reflecting the important role these boundaries will play in supporting the delivery of reforms to public service delivery from 2017 onwards.
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