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Richmondshire District Personal Details: Name: Susan Alderson E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: My submission is objecting to Melbecks Parish being combined with Hawes and High Abbotside. I am a resident of Melbecks Parish Council and have lived in for the past 28 years. During that time I have seen a shift in the shopping patterns of residents. Apart from people at the top end of Swaledale who perhaps still visit Hawes regularly, others tend to travel down dale to Reeth, Leyburn, Catterick and Richmond or even have shopping delivered by one of the supermarkets. The road through Swaledale B6270 is classed as a priority route and so is treated daily in cold winter weather as is the road through Wensleydale, but the Buttertubs, can be difficult as there are no properties between Thwaite in Swaledale and Simonstone on the outskirts of Hawes in Wensleydale if help is needed. All services to residents in Swaledale are based on journeys up and down the dale. Refuse collection, Royal Mail deliveries and collections, schools and their transport, Churches and their work together and pubs with their social competitions. Children in this area go to Gunnerside, Reeth and then Richmond, even from the top end of the dale, so they become used to this direction of travel. The only service which takes some residents into Wensleydale is for the doctor but these numbers are not as high as they used to be as the surgery in Reeth is now considered to be in the top 5% in the country. Low Row village itself is split by the river with some houses on the south side, in Grinton parish, and the bulk on the north side in Melbecks. Why can’t these two now be joined together in the proposed Reeth and Arkengarthdale parish with whom we have more in common than Hawes and Huigh Abbotside? Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded Richmondshire District Personal Details: Name: Andrew Bedford E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: The name Hawes and High Abbotside doesn't reflect the vast area of land which is in Swaledale. Hawes and Upper Swaledale or Upper Swaledale and Upper Wensleydale might be a more accurate description. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded Owen, David From: Sue Bianco Sent: 02 January 2018 20:33 To: reviews Subject: Objection: Patrick Brompton This is an objection to the Boundary Commission Proposal to remove Patrick Brompton Parish in North Yorkshire from the Lower Wensleydale Ward and place the Parish in a new Ward of Scotton. Quite simply, this proposal is wrong on many counts, but the most obvious and deeply disturbing of these is the idea that Patrick Brompton should be separated from Newton le Willows. These two villages do not just share common interests, they live and act as one community. They are within a stone’s throw of each other, certainly less than half a mile by the well‐used public footpath, and no more than three quarters of a mile by road. The church (which is, and always has been, the church for both villages) has a wonderfully close congregation made up of people from both villages who don’t regard themselves as separate in any proper sense of the word. The two villages also have a joint Village hall committee, and the Parish Council also works as one. If you add to this the fact that Patrick Brompton is a very typical lower Wensleydale village, whereas Scotton is effectively an extension of the fast expanding Catterick Garrison then the proposal becomes even more incongruous. The interests and identities of Scotton and Patrick Brompton are vastly different, with the focus in Scotton centring around the Armed Forces and the garrison community. The issues and concerns of Patrick Brompton could not be more different, and the proposal would effectively leave the village in an isolated position. Scotton, which is not even in Wensleydale, is almost five miles from Patrick Brompton. The Commission’s proposal, therefore, contravenes its own terms of statutory criteria, as it would split the existing community of Patrick Brompton and Newton le Willows and force Patrick Brompton into a ward where it has not the slightest common interest or identity. I fully support, therefore, the Parish Council’s counter‐proposal – that Patrick Brompton be left in the Lower Wensleydale Ward where it belongs, and that Spennithorne Parish be moved to the Leyburn Ward. There is no conflict in the interests and identities of Spennithorne and Leyburn, and the numbers would balance out as, over the next 5‐10 years, the population of Scotton is bound to increase in line with the ongoing plans for the Garrison development. Best regards Susan Bianco 1 2 Richmondshire District Personal Details: Name: Jane Branch E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: None Comment text: I live in Tunstall Village and have read the proposal for the change to "Scotton Ward". I do not agree that this proposal links communities with shared interests. It appears that this proposal is based on proximity rather than shared interest. Scotton is part of the Catterick Garrison community whereas Tunstall and the other rural villages that have been moved into the new Scotton ward have their roots in farming. Tunstall has strong links with Catterick Village, sharing the same ecclesiastical parish with twinned churches. About 30% of the population of the new proposed ward has rural roots and makes up more than half of the land area. I believe this change risks the rural communities interests being marginalised, particularly if the 2 Councillors for the ward are drawn from the Garrison community. I have not been able to redraw an alternative proposal but at the very least I would think that to restore some balance to this proposal, the ward should be named "Scotton and Hornby Castle" to underline the prior name and draw attention to the rural population. I note it is proposed to name another new ward "Catterick and Brompton on Swale" so there is precedence for this proposal. I feel with all of the planned local development being centered on Colburn and surrounding area that our rural parishes are at serious risk of losing their voice with this proposal. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded The Review Officer (Richmondshire) Local Government Boundary Commission for England 141h Floor Millbank Tower Millbank London SW1P4QP Draft recommendations in respect of the review of Local Government Ward Boundaries across Richmondshire District. Dear Sir, I wish to formally register my objection to the draft recommendations of the Boundary Commission which would have the effect of removing the Parish of Patrick Brampton from its current Ward of Lower Wensleydale and place it in a new Scotton Ward. Such a move, from Lower Wensleydale into a Swaledale Ward, would shatter the deep seated and historical associations, which date back to 1086, when the Parish of Patrick Brampton was cited in the Domesday Book with reference to Wensleydale. I understand that the initial proposition was to keep Patrick Brampton Parish in the Lower Wensleydale Ward. Whilst I appreciate that the objective of the review is to establish Wards of equal size of around 1608 electors with a tolerance of plus or minus 10%, I think that placing Patrick Brampton Parish, a rural community closely linked with other villages and communities in Lower Wensleydale which have very similar if not the same issues, into the Scotton ward which is an overwhelmingly urban ward whose community interests would likely, in the main, be centred on the community within the Garrison and the Military is antithetical with the aims and values of the Commission. This does not chime well with the Local Government Boundary Commission's statutory canon: Community Identities - ... that the pattern of wards should, as far as possible, reflect the interests and identities of local communities. It can be seen that the current proposal separates the village of Patrick Brampton from other villages in which we share a common interest: There is a great deal of synergy between other villages in Lower Wensleydale and Patrick Brompton. Patrick Brompton shares a village hall with Newton Le Willows, with Trustees from both villages sitting on the committee, where events involving members of both communities are organised and attended. Newton Le Willows and Patrick Brompton Parish Councils have worked together on local issues and shared Clerks. Planning issues in respect of large projects on the boundaries of local parishes have seen Parish Councils and action groups within the communities working in partnership to oppose or promote them successfully. The Parish Church of St Patrick's is in the united benefice of Lower Wensleydale Parishes and is known as the Gateway to Lower Wensleydale, with five of the six churches being in Richmondshire. The churches worshipping community is gathered, in the main, from Patrick Brompton and Newton Le Willows. The local WI is the Newton Le Willows and Patrick Brompton WI. The Atkinson Clarke Educational Foundation covers both the Parish areas of Patrick Brompton and Newton Le Willows, again with Trustees from both villages on the board. I am aware that the Patrick Brompton Parish Council is actively involved in the Lower Wensleydale Partnership meetings where representatives of Parish Councils in the group get together to discuss issues raised in the locality, find solutions to local problems and search for funding for selected projects. I have been present when at Parish Council meetings this matter has been discussed and I am aware that, the view of the residents of the Parish are, that the Parish should remain in the Lower Wensleydale Ward. The Parish Council replied in the first instance pointing out the links between this community and those of Lower Wensleydale.