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Draft Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Herefordshire Draft recommendations on the future electoral arrangements for Herefordshire January 2001 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND The Local Government Commission for England is an independent body set up by Parliament. Our task is to review and make recommendations to the Government on whether there should be changes to local authorities’ electoral arrangements. Members of the Commission are: Professor Malcolm Grant (Chairman) Professor Michael Clarke CBE (Deputy Chairman) Peter Brokenshire Kru Desai Pamela Gordon Robin Gray Robert Hughes CBE Barbara Stephens (Chief Executive) We are statutorily required to review periodically the electoral arrangements – such as the number of councillors representing electors in each area and the number and boundaries of wards and electoral divisions – of every principal local authority in England. In broad terms our objective is to ensure that the number of electors represented by each councillor in an area is as nearly as possible the same, taking into account local circumstances. We can recommend changes to ward boundaries, and the number of councillors and ward names. We can also make recommendations for change to the electoral arrangements of parish and town councils in the district. © Crown Copyright 2001 Applications for reproduction should be made to: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Copyright Unit. The mapping in this report is reproduced from OS mapping by the Local Government Commission for England with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, © Crown Copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence Number: GD 03114G. This report is printed on recycled paper. ii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND CONTENTS page SUMMARY v 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 CURRENT ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS 5 3 REPRESENTATIONS RECEIVED 9 4 ANALYSIS AND DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS 11 5 NEXT STEPS 35 APPENDICES A Draft Recommendations for Herefordshire: Detailed Mapping 37 B Proposed Electoral Arrangements from: 43 - Herefordshire Council - Leominster Constituency Liberal Democrats C The Statutory Provisions 47 Four A3 maps showing existing and proposed warding arrangements for Herefordshire can be found at the back of this report. A large map illustrating the existing and proposed ward boundaries for Hereford City is inserted inside the back cover. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND iii iv LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND SUMMARY The Commission began a review of the electoral arrangements for Herefordshire on 27 June 2000. • This report summarises the representations we received during the first stage of the review, and makes draft recommendations for change. We found that the existing electoral arrangements provide unequal representation of electors in Herefordshire: • in 19 of the 44 wards the number of electors represented by each councillor varies by more than 10 per cent from the average for the district and six wards vary by more than 20 per cent from the average; • by 2005 this unequal representation is not expected to improve, with the number of electors per councillor forecast to vary by more than 10 per cent from the average in 19 wards and by more than 20 per cent in 10 wards. Our main draft recommendations for future electoral arrangements (Figures 1 and 2 and paragraphs 112-113) are that: • Herefordshire Council should have 58 councillors, two fewer than at present; • there should be 34 wards, instead of 44 as at present; • the boundaries of 40 of the existing wards should be modified, resulting in a net reduction of 10, with four wards retaining their existing boundaries; • elections should continue to take place every four years. These draft recommendations seek to ensure that the number of electors represented by each district councillor is as nearly as possible the same, having regard to local circumstances. • In 31 of the proposed 34 wards the number of electors per councillor would vary by no more than 10 per cent from the district average. • This improved level of electoral equality is expected to improve further with the number of electors per councillor in only one ward expected to vary by more than 10 per cent from the average for the district in 2005. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND v Recommendations are also made for changes to parish and town council electoral arrangements which provide for: • revised warding arrangements and the re-distribution of councillors for the parishes of Hereford, Ledbury, Leominster, Lower Bullingham, Ross-on- Wye, Ross Rural and Withington Group Parish Council. This report sets out our draft recommendations on which comments are invited. • We will consult on our draft recommendations for eight weeks from 9 January 2001. Because we take this consultation very seriously, we may move away from our draft recommendations in the light of Stage Three responses. It is therefore important that all interested parties let us have their views and evidence, whether or not they agree with our draft recommendations. • After considering local views, we will decide whether to modify our draft recommendations and then make our final recommendations to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • It will then be for the Secretary of State to accept, modify or reject our final recommendations. He will also determine when any changes come into effect. You should express your views by writing directly to the Commission at the address below by 5 March 2001: Review Manager Herefordshire Review Local Government Commission for England Dolphyn Court 10/11 Great Turnstile London WC1V 7JU Fax: 020 7404 6142 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.lgce.gov.uk vi LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Figure 1: The Commission’s Draft Recommendations: Summary Ward name Number of Constituent areas Map councillors reference 1 Aylestone 2 Aylestone and Tupsley wards (the proposed Aylestone parish Map 2 and ward of Hereford parish) Large map 2 Belmont 3 Belmont ward (the proposed Belmont parish ward of Hereford Map 2 and parish); Clehonger ward (the parish of Belmont Rural) Large map 3 Bircher 1 Unchanged; Bircher ward (the parishes of Croft & Yarpole, Map 2 Kingsland, Lucton, Orleton and Richards Castle) 4Bringsty 1 Unchanged: Bringsty ward (the parishes of Bredenbury, Map 2 Brockhampton, Collington, Edvin Loach & Salt Marshe, Edwyn Ralph, Grendon Bishop, Hampton Charles, Linton, Norton, Tedstone Delamere, Tedstone Wafer, Thornbury, Upper Sapey, Wacton, Whitbourne and Wolferlow) 5 Bromyard 2 Bromyard ward (part – the parishes of Bromyard & Wimslow, Map 2 Moreton Jeffries and Stoke Lacy); Frome ward (part – the parishes of Acton Beauchamp, Avenbury, Bishop’s Frome, Evesbatch, Much Cowarne and Stanford Bishop) 6 Castle 1 Castle ward (part – the parishes of Almeley, Brobury with Map 2 Monnington on Wye, Eardisley, Kinnersley, Letton, Norton Canon, Sarnesfield, Staunton on Wye, Whitney on Wye and Willersley & Winforton); Kington ward (part – the parishes of Brilley and Huntington) 7 Central 1 Central and Holmer wards (the proposed Central parish ward of Map 2 and Hereford parish) Large map 8 Credenhill 3 Burmarsh ward (part – the parishes of Holmer and Pipe & Lyde); Map 2 Credenhill ward (the parishes of Breinton, Credenhill, Kenchester and Stretton Sugwas); Dinmore Hill ward (the parishes of Burghill, Dinmore, Moreton on Lugg and Wellington); Weobley ward (part – the parishes of Bishopstone, Bridge Sollers, Brinsop & Wormsley, Byford, Canon Pyon, Mansell Gamage, Mansell Lacy and Yazor) 9 Doward 2 Doward ward (the parishes of Ganerew, Goodrich, Llangarron, Map 2 Marstow, Welsh Bicknor and Whitchurch); Pontrilas ward (part – the parishes of Llanrothal and Welsh Newton); Wilton ward (part – the parishes of Bridstow, Hentland, Peterstow and Sellack) 10 Golden 1 Golden Cross ward (part – the parishes of Dilwyn and Map 2 Cross Eardisland); Weobley ward (part – the parishes of Birley with Upper Hill, King’s Pyon and Weobley) 11 Golden 1 Castle ward (part – the parishes of Blakemere, Moccas and Map 2 Valley North Preston on Wye); Golden Valley ward (part – the parish of Peterchurch) Merbach ward (part – the parishes of Bredwardine, Clifford, Cussop and Dorstone); Stoney Street ward (part – the parish of Tyberton) LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND vii Ward name Number of Constituent areas Map councillors reference 12 Golden 1 Golden Valley ward (part – the parishes of Abbey Dore, Bacton, Map 2 Valley South St Margarets, Turnastone and Vowchurch); Merbach ward (part – the parishes of Craswall, Llanveynoe, Longtown, Michaelchurch Escley, Newton and Walterstone); Pontrilas ward (part – the parishes of Dulas, Ewyas Harold, Llancillo and Rowlstone) 13 Hagley & 2 Backbury ward (part – the parishes of Dormington, Fownhope, Map 2 Backbury Hampton Bishop, Mordiford, Stoke Edith and Weston Beggard); Frome ward (part – the parish of Tarrington); Hagley ward (the parishes of Bartestree, Lugwardine, Preston Wynne, Westhide and Withington) 14 Hampton 2 Bromyard ward (part – the parishes of Felton, Little Cowarne, Map 2 Court Ocle Pychard, Pencombe with Grendon Warren and Ullingswick); Burmarsh ward (part – the parishes of Marden and Sutton); Hampton Court ward (the parishes of Bodenham, Docklow & Hampton Wafer, Ford & Stoke Prior, Hatfield & Newhampton, Hope under Dinmore, Humber, Newton and Pudlestone) 15 Hollington 1 Hollington ward (part – the parishes of Ballingham, Bolstone, Map 2 Dinedor, Holme Lacy and Little Dewchurch and
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