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Parish, Town Councils Submissions to the Purbeck District Council Electoral Review Parish, Town Councils submissions to the Purbeck District Council electoral review This PDF document contains 14 submissions from parish and town councils. 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. Response to Local Government Boundary Commissions proposals for new Purbeck District Council ward boundaries. To the Review Officer, Purbeck review I am writing as the Chair of Morden Parish Council. The proposal to place Morden and Bloxworth in the Wareham St Martins ward goes against the principles of grouping communities together which have similar interests and historic and current social links. Morden and Bloxworth are both very small rural communities with no shop, school, street lights etc., all community action is by volunteers and self‐ help. Morden is in the catchment area of Lytchett Matravers primary school and the school busses take the children to the primary and then the secondary school in the Lytchett Minster. Bloxworth children usually go to Bere Regis first school but eventually all the children end up at Lytchett Minster Secondary school using the same bus. Morden and Bloxworth are part of the Red Post Benefice/Parish and share the same vicar and Parish Magazine. The Churches link with Bere Regis Parish and their Parish news is in the Red Post Magazine. All the parish links are West‐East in the area north of the A35, the bus service goes from Poole – Dorchester via Bere Regis. There is no public transport to Wareham or Sandford, therefore many residents use the Bere Regis or Lytchett Matravers doctors surgeries. There is often resentment in the villages of Morden and Bloxworth that Wareham and Sandford residents are very reluctant to attend events in the Morden Village Hall, such as the Purbeck Film Festival or Artsreach. Children in Bloxworth and Morden attend Cubs Scouts and Guides in Bere Regis or Lytchett Matravers, and girls from Lytchett Matravers and Bere come to Morden for Brownies. Morden and Bloxworth, are ‘Estate’ villages still largely owned by one landlord as is Bere Regis. Traditionally after working for the Estate on farms or forestry, the retiring workers would be offered a house to rent in Bere Regis on the basis that it was the village with shops and Doctors surgery and social clubs. As a result many local families have elderly relatives in Bere Regis, and cousin families in Bloxworth. The same names are found in the gravestones of all the churches House, Gale, Legg, Foot, Green and Crocker and their descendants still feature in local activities. Residents of Housing Association houses in Morden and Bloxworth often swop and bid for houses in the neighbouring village to find the appropriate size house and the idea of local link includes both villages. For many years now Morden has been part of the Lytchett Matravers ward, previously I believe it was part of Bere ward. Being a very small rural village arbitrarily lumped with a very large suburban village has had some problems of Morden being overlooked and occasionally barely represented at District as our concerns are very different to that of our much larger neighbours. To be thrown in with Sandford in the Wareham St Martins ward is to repeat the problem with the added problem of no natural links and knowledge of each others interests. Sandford is a town fringe community with all the facilities but not much community self support. Even more distinct as a problem is that because of geography the interests of the two small villages are actually in opposition to those of Sandford in terms of planning, the desire for affordable housing and traffic. Sandford is a large ribbon village cut in half by the A351 road which for various reasons is never likely to have a bypass. It is in the interest of Sandford residents to encourage increasing amounts of heavy traffic to use the B3075 which directly causes problems for the villages of Bloxworth and Morden in road safety at Morden Park Corner. The B3075 may physically link Morden and Sandford but the four miles of forest it crosses is a natural and distinct barrier. A Representative of the Morden Parish Council spoke eloquently at the Purbeck District Council meeting discussing the proposed Boundary changes against Morden being included with Wareham St Martins. It is a pity that those comments were not included with PDC response. On behalf of Morden Parish council I ask that it is seriously considered whether Morden stays in the present ward of Lytchett Matravers and Morden. Alternatively use part of the Dorset County Division and join Bere Regis, Bloxworth, Briantspuddle, Moreton and East Stoke in a two member ward for ‘Bere Regis Area’ or ‘North Purbeck’ or ‘Purbeck Forest’ ward. This would mean that a good proportion of the electors of the ward would live in small rural villages and therefore their views could not be ignored by the elected councillors and District Council. Please consider this suggestion seriously it is the combined views of the Parish Councillors. Yours sincerely Alex Brenton. Chair of Morden Parish Council Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle Parish Council 19th June 2012 Re: LGBCE Draft Proposals for Purbeck. The Review Officer (Purbeck) Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to convey an initial response to the draft proposals for ward boundary changes within Purbeck from Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle Parish Council. This parish council will be responding in greater detail following consultation with our residents. Following a unanimous vote taken at our meeting of 13th June, our initial response is to object to the proposal to join this parish principally with the parish of Wool in a three member ward. Our basis for this objection is: No geographical connection. No direct road links. No social or political links with Wool. No public transport to Wool whatsoever. Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle is a fully rural community while Wool is an urban area and as such faces differing and conflicting issues. Our equality of representation will be of little value against a larger urban vote. We will lose the effective and convenient local government which we enjoy at present by inclusion in a three councillor ward. Our continued inclusion in a ward made up of similar sized fully rural parishes would better preserve our community identity. In this age of ever expanding urban areas it is essential to preserve a rural voice to ensure fair representation. We should not be lumping small rural communities to urban wards merely to better ‘balance’ elector numbers. Unacceptable percentage variance in ward elector numbers can (as here) be due to a very small number of individual electors. Changing so drastically a system that works extremely well purely for the sake of slightly greater numerical compliance would prove very counterproductive. Yours sincerely, Nicholas Gore Chairman, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle Parish Council Parish of Arne CLERK FOR THE PARISH COUNCIL 3rd July 2012 The Review Officer (Purbeck) [email protected] Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Dear Sir Local Government Boundary Commission for England Further Electoral Review of Purbeck District Council Consultation Response to Draft Recommendations The Parish Council has viewed the documents relating to the above and ha s the follo wing comments : East Stoke and East Holme have almost identical characteristics and it would be a mistake for them to be separate d. Neither Parishes ha ve any con nection to Wool and th e fear is that they will not be represented sufficiently if aligned to such a large Parish. West Purbeck is a rural area and therefore it is far better for these communities to stay together. Using road connections as an example of connectivity has no bearing on the reality of inter- community liaisons, they are basically physical connections only and little weight should be given to them. On this basis, we would add the following two comments. Wareham St Martin is a ribbon development that has rural and urban areas but Morden is completely rural and has more in common with Lytchett Matravers. Bloxworth Parish has always been supported and represented through Bere Regis and this should continue for the sake of bot h communities. Residents have always gone t o Bere Regis for school, medical facilities and community events. Although the above matters are not in line with the main argument of equal representation by district councillors, the variances are small and the sup port the stat ed needs set out in the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009. Secure effective and convenient local government Reflect the identities and interests of local communities in particular o The desirability of arriving at boundaries that are easily identifiable o The desirability of fixing boundaries so as not to break any local ties We hope the above comments are of use to you in your deliberations. Yours faithfully MD Weller Clerk Parish Council of Wareham St Martin 2nd July 2012 The Review Officer (Purbeck) [email protected] Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG Dear Sir Local Government Boundary Commission for England Further Electoral Review of Purbeck District Council Consultation Response to Draft Recommendations The Parish Council has viewed the documents relating to the above and has the following comments : Wareham St Martin Parish has no community connections with Organford and it is felt the historic connection with Lytchett Minster should be retained. The small number of electorat e is not going to make a huge difference in representation and it is felt that the current ties should not be severed.
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