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Local Residents' Submissions to the Three Rivers District Council Local residents’ submissions to the Three Rivers District Council electoral review This PDF document contains 36 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. Dunkeyson, Nicholas From: Reviews@ Sent: 10 January 2013 16:48 To: Reviews@ Subject: Custom Form Submission Received R m m Custom Form Submission Received Review Editor, A new custom form submission has been received. The details of the form submission are as follows: Submission Information Custom Form: Online submissions form (#183) Form URL: http://www.lgbce.org.uk/current-consultations/online-submissions-form Submission ID: 1682 Time of Submission: Jan 10th 2013 at 4:47pm IP Address: ::ffff:86.16.73.222 Form Answers Name: G.Agrisanti Area your submission Three Rivers refers to: Organisation you member of the public belong to: Your feedback: To whom it may concerns: As a secretary of By The Wood Flats Ltd.and speaking on behalf of all our members, am strongly objecting at the proposed joining of Carpenders Park and South Oxey. We, ar Carpenders Park, are completely indipendent from anything in South Oxey, the community existed much before South Oxey was created and would like to remain so.One question I would like to ask, are the members of the deciding Committee local people?? I do not believe so because if they were they would live the boundary as there are!! Thank you for your attention, Yours sincerely, G.Agrisanti File upload: This communication is from LGBCE (http://www.lgbce.org.uk) - Sent to Review Editor 1 Dunkeyson, Nicholas From: Reviews@ Sent: 10 January 2013 15:24 To: Reviews@ Subject: Custom Form Submission Received R m m Custom Form Submission Received Contact us Email, A new custom form submission has been received. The details of the form submission are as follows: Submission Information Custom Form: Contact us (#212) Form URL: http://www.lgbce.org.uk/about-us/contact-us Submission ID: 1680 Time of Submission: Jan 10th 2013 at 3:23pm Form Answers I am: a member of the public Comment/enquiry relating to a current review type: Comments: dear sir. i sent a reply yesterday regarding three rivers proposals.speaking to many of my neighbours.they are not happy.firstly carpenders park removed from the postcode some years ago and watford substituted now it seems some people want it removed and substituted with possibly south oxhey.carpenders park was there in the 1930,s south oxhey 1947 to accomadate the london overspill.prices have always a lot cheaper in south oxheyfor properties and the property in carpender park will drop to council house prices. yours faithfully This communication is from LGBCE (http://www.lgbce.org.uk) - Sent to Contact us Email 1 Carpenders Park resident Member of the public 12/01/2013 10:36 "I would like to inform you that I am completely against the proposal to destroy Carpenders Park by merging it with South Oxhey and Oxhey Hall. If I had wanted to live in South Oxhey I would have bought a property there. South Oxhey is well known as a council estate. I chose to move to Carpenders Park because I saw it as a nice area with a nice name and as a hard working family man saw the move (which I have made through a lot of hard work and personal sacrifice) as an upgrade to my families lifestyle and future. How shocked and dismayed was I to be informed that now after being a resident for 7 years to all intense and purpose I will now be living on a council estate. How you could even consider this ridiculous proposal is beyond me. As a Journalist working on a National Newspaper I feel that this has the entire making for a strong media campaign and I will do anything in my power to quash this absurd proposal! I have not spoken to one resident that would give this their support. Property prices would be severely affected by this." Dunkeyson, Nicholas From: Reviews@ Sent: 10 January 2013 21:04 To: Reviews@ Subject: Custom Form Submission Received R m m Custom Form Submission Received Review Editor, A new custom form submission has been received. The details of the form submission are as follows: Submission Information Custom Form: Online submissions form (#183) Form URL: http://www.lgbce.org.uk/current-consultations/online-submissions-form Submission ID: 1684 Time of Submission: Jan 10th 2013 at 9:04pm Form Answers Name: ann archer Area your submission Three Rivers refers to: Organisation you member of the public belong to: Your feedback: carpenders park is an distinct area with a strong community across ALL age ranges. It has boundaries which are clear : natural, old and established roads and a major railway of many mainline and local tracks; these boundaries "reflect the interests and identities of the local" residents. hence to change them would be contrary to the stated aims of the review !!!! File upload: This communication is from LGBCE (http://www.lgbce.org.uk) - Sent to Review Editor 1 14/01/2013 RESPONSE TO WARD BOUNDARY CHANGE PROPOSALS IN THREE RIVERS DISTRICT COUNCIL. KEY FACTORS: ● The Three Rivers District Council electorate for Carpenders Park is substantially incorrect, according to the LGBCE the 2012 figure is 4142. ● No consultation has taken place with Carpenders Park residents, or the Carpenders Park Residents’ Association. ● A reduction in the number of Councillors to 30 and/or single elections rather than in thirds makes more sense than a figure of 39 with elections in thirds. ● Carpenders Park is a vibrant, cohesive, entity with its own identity. It has local shops, medical, dental, social and primary school facilities. It has good vehicle and pedestrian links with South Oxhey, so that additional shopping and social amenities are within easy reach. ● Carpenders Park should not be split, as it has no such links with Oxhey Hall. ● A more practical approach may be to “partner” it with Ashridge DCG to provide a suitable electorate size. CONCLUSION: We are totally opposed to Three Rivers District Council’s proposal, and protest most strongly at their ill prepared submission which contains significant numerical errors and has provided no consultation opportunity. TRDC’s scheme is in direct conflict with the intention that “the new ward boundaries should reflect the interests and identities of local communities“. Mr & Mrs H R Blatch Dunkeyson, Nicholas From: Reviews@ Sent: 12 January 2013 14:10 To: Reviews@ Subject: Custom Form Submission Received R m m Custom Form Submission Received Review Editor, A new custom form submission has been received. The details of the form submission are as follows: Submission Information Custom Form: Online submissions form (#183) Form URL: http://www.lgbce.org.uk/current-consultations/online-submissions-form Submission ID: 1688 Time of Submission: Jan 12th 2013 at 2:10pm Form Answers Name: M A & H Bunce Area your submission Three Rivers refers to: Organisation you member of the public belong to: Your feedback: The proposed boundary changes suggested by the Lib Dem dominated council do not make any sense,to divide Carpenders Park in two and put one half into South Oxhey is pointless we do not share any link with Oxhey we are two completely separate communities. There are not even any common streets that join the two area's in fact you have to drive across the railway bridge over the midland rail line which separates us. The only reason for this move can be to ensure that any political opposition is trodden down, if we as a community are moved to Ashridge ward we would cease to have any local representation, other than that of the much larger ward into which we will be swallowed up, which not unsurprisingly is Lib Dem dominated. It has also been formulated with a sense of urgency which this council is not usually known for,any one with objections has been given six days to reply two 1 of the days being a weekend. I ask the commission to kick this particular plan out and let Carpenders Park remain what it has always been a thriving joined community in its own right. File upload: This communication is from LGBCE (http://www.lgbce.org.uk) - Sent to Review Editor 2 Dunkeyson, Nicholas From: Reviews@ Sent: 13 January 2013 17:15 To: Reviews@ Subject: Custom Form Submission Received R m m Custom Form Submission Received Review Editor, A new custom form submission has been received. The details of the form submission are as follows: Submission Information Custom Form: Online submissions form (#183) Form URL: http://www.lgbce.org.uk/current-consultations/online-submissions-form Submission ID: 1692 Time of Submission: Jan 13th 2013 at 5:15pm Form Answers Name: Michael Castro Area your submission Three Rivers refers to: Organisation you member of the public belong to: Your feedback: Sunday Jan 13th I wish to protest about Three Rivers District Councils Lib Dem proposals regarding boundary changes to the Oxhey Hall and Carpenters Park districts. 1 There has been no notification of these changes to any residents in the Oxhey Hall area 2 The time limit of one week to make submissions is quite simply appalling being just after the New Year. This has only just come to my notice. The deadline for comment is ridiculously short - i.e. tomorrow, Monday 14th. 3 1 There were no prior committee discussions on the papers that went to the District Council's Extraordinary meeting last Tuesday. Papers only put in the public domain the week before, i.e.
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