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Taylor, Laura

From: Jennifer Bates > Sent: 22 March 2018 17:19 To: reviews Subject: Boundary Consultations

I have just read your article in ’s Wot’s On (the delivery of the magazine was delayed for a number of reasons including new editors) and have to say I am uneasy about the proposed Ward Boundary changes.

I am a churchwarden of St. Nicholas Church Henstridge, and we are in a Benefice with two other churches ‐ St. Mary’s in and St. John’s in Horsington. (Currently we are organising a joint Benefice Profile for a new Rector ‐ our previous one having retired in the late autumn. We expect a new Rector to be appointed in the late summer.) These three (or four) villages work well together ‐ Henstridge, Abbas and Templecombe, and Horsington with . They are very close to each other (Templecombe is one and a half miles north of Henstridge and Horsington is a further two miles north of Templecombe), and work well. For Henstridge to be linked with (almost 4 miles away) and (almost 7 miles away) is too far distant for these villages to be linked together: when they were joined in a Benefice with Henstridge in the past, it did not work nearly so well because of the distances between them. When distances are this great, co‐operation would be limited and to my mind would be a retrograde step.

We would much prefer the Ward Boundaries to stay as they are, since size is only one aspect that needs to be considered.

Jennifer Bates Churchwarden St. Nicholas Church Henstridge

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I have lived in for over forty years during which time my family has enjoyed close links with the village of regarding the local school, and more particularly the Medical Centre on which the village heavily relies. Relationships such as this take many years to develop, and any detrimental impact brought about by the proposed boundary changes would have serious consequences for the residents of Rimpton.

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From: Chris Bunker Sent: 03 March 2018 11:29 To: reviews Cc: Subject: DC Ward Boundary Consultation

Dear Sir/Madam, I live in and OBJECT to the proposed transfer of our parish into Ivelchester Ward from . Our village is well matched by other villages nearby which would remain in Blackmore Vale or the adjacent Milborne Port Ward. Our representation by our current Ward Councillors is excellent and consistent with our connection to those local villages. I believe it would be very detrimental to the interests of Corton Denham to be transferred to Ivelchester ward. Yours Sincerely, C J Bunker

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From: Julia Bunker Sent: 09 March 2018 10:13 To: reviews Subject: South Somerset DC Ward Boundary Consultation

Dear Sirs,

I am very concerned that it is proposed to move our parish of Corton Denham into the Ivelchester Ward from Blackmore Vale. I object to this proposition. A number of years ago our Parliamentary Constituency boundary was changed which, I believe, was to our ultimate disadvantage in representation, mostly because of remoteness. The same would be true of this proposed boundary change. Our current representation by our Ward Councillors is, and always has been, excellent , conscientious and appropriate, by people who know us well, and we know them. Relatively isolated rural communities, such as ours, need to be represented by knowledgeable locals. Please do not remove this service and facility from us and, instead, consider other solutions.

Yours faithfully, Julia Bunker .

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From: Gina Burdass Sent: 05 March 2018 11:31 To: reviews Subject: "South Somerset DC Ward Boundary Consultation"

I live in Corton Denham and strongly OBJECT to the proposed transfer of our parish into Ivelchester Ward from Blackmore Vale.

I think that this village has much more in common with other villages nearby that would remain in either the Blackmore Vale Ward, or in the adjacent Milborne Port Ward.

Our representation by our current Ward Councillors is first class. It fits well with our connection to our local villages so I think it would be a big mistake to change it.

Therefore I OBJECT to the proposal to transfer Corton Denham to the Ivelchester Ward.

Gina Burdass

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I agree with the proposal to change the name of the West Ward to Yeovil Summerlands, which is what a large part of the area is named on most maps.

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Why waste time and rate payers money messing about with Ward changes."It it isn't broke why try and mend it !"Surely there over more important and pressing issues to be getting on with

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From: William Church Sent: 17 March 2018 14:17 To: reviews Subject: bounderies commision

Dear Sirs. I sincerely hope you have not used Royal Mail Data Base, or the census in your endeavours. Royal Mail Data Base is completely inaccurate, they are not addresses but instructions to postal staff, the post codes are correct. For instance every home built in since the 1970's have been given to . Langport itself was built on Huish Episcopi land and is completely surrounded by Huish Episcopi, , and Aller, even so called Langport sorting office is in Huish Episcopi. There have been hundreds of new homes built since 1970, very few in Langport. The South Somerset District Council have a correct data base, so it will be easy to get the correct information you need. Obviously, not only Huish Episcopi is affected, so the whole of SSDC data base should be used. Regards Mrs. C Church

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From: Peter Coe Sent: 12 February 2018 16:21 To: reviews Subject: & CARY WARD dear Sirs

Please register our objection to proposals to remove Yarlington from the Cary Ward. I don't know of a single person in the village who wishes for the proposed change.

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Peter & Suzanne Coe.

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I am in total support of the position put forward by the Corton Denham Parish council in rejecting the proposed changes to the Corton Denham ward, it is unrealistic to expect a councillor, most likely from to be able to fully represent a far and remote community like Corton Denham, we would be swallowed up by the larger entity with little or no realistic representation. There are also proposls (albeit in the early stages) to increase the ward of Ilchester in the area of the A303 near , if this were to come to any sort of fruition then the above argument would become not just important, but imperative.

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From: Robert Crowley Sent: 30 January 2018 16:44 To: reviews Subject: Review of boundaries - South Somerset District Council.

I wish to make comments regarding the above please.

Whilst it may be felt that Curry Rivel should join Langport and Huish Espiscopi from a numerical point of view, I am certain that Curry Rivel and Drayton are better suited together. I should like them to remain ‐ TOGETHER. It follows that if voter numbers need adjusting, other smaller districts could join EG , and Isle Abbotts. So far as Langport and Huish are concerned, then, if they are not already part of the group, Aller and could join.

Please will you give my request serious consideration? Thank you, Robert Crowley.

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Name: Simon Cullum

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I believe the Blackmoor vale boundaries should remain unchanged. The equality of representation is assured, The existing ward more accurately reflects community interests and identities; the Blackmoor Vale has community, geographical, literary identities, which would be overshadowed and possibly lost by coming under the wing of Milborne Port. Even the Church beneficent, which constitutes Horsington, Templecombe and Henstridge points to the maintenance of the ward, and a breakup of this would be viewed by some as tragic. Lastly, we have developed effective and convenient local government, with high levels of community involvement. As an adjunct to milborne Port this would be lost.

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I am a resident of and strongly wish to remain in the Coker Ward and not be moved say to the Ward. We are a ham stone village, situated in a rural area (although Yeovil is ever spreading westwards with it's sprawling, unattractive housing estates). We do not consider ourselves a fit with the urban areas, please do not move us.

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Tower and wards are very different wards in many ways - rural for Tower, urban for Wincanton. They are currently represented by 3 councillors. The proposal is that they are to still be represented by 3 councillors. What are the gains? I can't see any. Thus there is no valid reason for change. Within the overall plan, the objective should surely be to increase democratic representation. This proposal demonstrably fails this objective. The last elections gave voting results (only for Yeovil, many of which are multi-member wards) of: LibDems 43% Cons 36% Other parties 21% These votes resulted in seats on the District Council held by LibDems 13 (72%) Cons 5 (28%) Other parties 0 (0%) For Area East the results gave, based on current membership of Area East committee x1 Independent x2 Lib Dem x9 Conservative The total votes cast for each party in Area East in 2015 were Conservative 11,759 = 53.3% Lib Dem 7,141 = 32.3% Green 1,244 = 5.6% Lab 998 = 4.5% Independent 922 = 4.1% Total votes = 22,064 Thus 10.1% voted for a party for whom there is no representation Conservatives have 9 councillors = 75% from 53.3% of the votes Lib Dems have 2 councillors = 16.6% from 32.3% of the votes Independents have 1 councillor = 8.3% or 4% voted independent in 1 ward and gained 8% of the councillors. The Greens and Labour gained 10.1% of the votes and received nil councillors So, surely any changes ought to be geared to ensuring a better balance of representation? I don't see how perpetuating this imbalance can be seen as "reform".

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From: Amanda Ellingworth Sent: 12 February 2018 16:42 To: reviews Cc:

Dear Sir/Madam

There is disquiet in my parish of Yarlington. The proposal that we be severed from our long established and successful link to is at variance with the agreed policy of ensuring that all parishes in a grouped parish council should remain in the same SSDC ward.

Please pass on these concerns to the SSDC so they can take it into consideration when responding to the LGBCE.

King regards

Amanda Ellingworth

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From: Julia Freestone Sent: 07 March 2018 15:52 To: reviews Subject: South Somerset DC Ward Boundary Consultation

I live in Corton Denham and OBJECT to the proposed transfer of our parish into Ivelchester from Blackmore Vale. Our village is well matched by other villages nearby which would remain Blackmore Vale or the adjacent Milborne Port Ward. Our representation by our current Ward Councillors is excellent and consistent with our connection to those villages. I believe that it would be very detrimental to the interests of Corton Denham to be transferred to Ivelchester Ward.

Vernon and Julia Freestone

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I live in Corton Denham and OBJECT to the proposed transfer of our Parish into Ivelchester from Blackmore Vale. Our village is well matched by other local villages nearby which would remain in Blackmore Vale. Our representation by our current Ward councillors is excellent and consistent with our connection to those local villages. I believe it would be very detrimental to the interests of Corton Denham to be removed from Blackmore Vale and transferred to Ivelchester.

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From: William Harri Sent: 12 February 2018 17:09 To: reviews Subject: Local Govt. Boundary Commission recomendations- Yarlington, Somerset

Dear Sir/Madam, As a former Yarlington parish councillor myself, I can only endorse Hamish Russell’s well‐argued objections to the proposal to move Yarlington from the Cary ward. Furthermore, as treasurer of the Yarlington PCC (part of the Group) I can see no advantage in splitting off the parish from North Cadbury. Yours faithfully, William Harris

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