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North West Leicestershire District Council's Policy on the Use of Electronic Communications Please note: Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with North West Leicestershire District Council's policy on the use of electronic communications. 2 North West Leicestershire District Division Name Number Variance Description Detail – LGBCE comments Comments on operational issues of Cllrs 2020 by North West Leicestershire District Council Ashby de la 1 3% This division comprises the parish of This division was proposed and supported No operational issues Zouch Ashby de la Zouch with the exception of locally. We recommend it as part of our draft the parish ward of Ashby Castle recommendations. The division would give a good level of electoral equality. We received objections to the exclusion of the Ashby Castle parish ward from the division. The consequences of including the Castle parish ward are described in detail below in our comments on the Valley division. We are not persuaded that resulting levels of electoral inequality are justified. Castle Donington 1 -5% This division comprises the parishes of This division was proposed locally. We No operational issues & Kegworth Castle Donington, Kegworth and received expressions of support for this Lockington-Hemington proposal. The division has clear boundaries and gives a good level of electoral equality. Coalville North 1 -2% This division comprises the North West We received two different proposals for We suggest moving The Limes Leicestershire District Council wards of boundaries in the Coalville area. However, ward of Ravenstone with Coalville East, Coalville West, when we visited the area, it appeared that Snibston Parish from the Ibstock Hugglescote St Mary’s and Snibston neither proposal would maintain local ties in and Appleby division to this South, together with the unparished part the centre of Coalville. We accept that division in order to prevent the of the Snibston North Ward Snibston North and Snibston South district splitting of a new housing wards should be combined in a single division. development. Whilst this splits a We have, however, modified the locally made parish this precedent has already proposals by including the whole of the been set with the splitting of the Coalville East and Coalville West wards in the Hugglescote & Donington le same division. Our recommended division Heath parish. provides a good level of electoral equality. Coalville South 1 3% This division comprises the North West We received two different proposals for We suggest moving the part of Leicestershire District Council wards of boundaries in the Coalville area. However, the Broom Leys Ward lying to the Bardon, Greenhill, Ellistown & Battleflat when we visited the area, it appeared that north of Meadow Lane from the and Hugglescote St John’s together with neither proposal would maintain local ties in Whitwick electoral division to this the unparished part of the Castle rock the centre of Coalville. We accept that Bardon division in order to prevent ward and the part of the Broom Leys and Greenhill district wards be combined in a having to create a new polling ward lying to the south of Meadow Lane single division. Having visited the area we district. recommend boundaries which, we consider will maintain local ties. Our recommended division provides a good level of electoral equality. Forest & 1 -1% This division comprises the parishes of This division was supported locally. We No operational issues Measham Ashby Woulds, Measham and Oakthorpe received expressions of support for this & Donisthorpe proposal. The division has clear boundaries and gives a good level of electoral equality. Ibstock & 1 4% This division comprises the parishes of This division was proposed and supported We suggest moving The Limes Appleby Appleby Magna, Chilcote, Heather, locally. The division has clear boundaries and ward of Ravenstone with Ibstock, Ravenstone with Snibston, gives a good level of electoral equality. We Snibston Parish from this division Snarestone, Stretton en le Field and received an objection to the exclusion of to the Coalville North division in Swepstone Ellistown & Battleflat from this division. order to prevent the splitting of a However, including that parish in this division new housing development. would result in the division having 25% more Whilst this splits a parish this electors per councillor than the average for precedent has already been set the county. We are not persuaded that such a with the splitting of the degree of electoral inequality is justified in this Hugglescote & Donington le case. Heath parish. Valley 1 -6% This division comprises the parishes of This division was proposed and supported No operational issues Belton, Breedon on the Hill, Coleorton, locally. The division has clear boundaries and Isley cum Langley, Long Whatton & gives a good level of electoral equality. We Diseworth, Normanton le Heath, received objections to the inclusion of the Osgathorpe, Packington, Staunton Ashby Castle parish ward in this division. Harold, Swannington and Worthington, Excluding that parish ward from the Valley together with the Ashby Castle parish division would mean that there would be 27% ward fewer electors per councillor than the average for the division, a degree of electoral inequality we are not persuaded to recommend. We received a proposal that the Ashby de la Zouch Blackfordby parish ward be added to the Valley division in order to mitigate electoral inequality. However, in such an approach, Blackfordby would be detached from the remainder of the Valley division and Valley would have 13% fewer electors per councillor than the average for the county. We do not recommend detached wards (other than in exceptional circumstances such as islands) and are not persuaded by the evidence we have received that departing from our normal approach is justified in this case. Whitwick 1 -6% This division comprises the parishes of We received two different proposals for We suggest moving the part of Charley and Whitwick together with the boundaries of divisions in the Whitwick area. the Broom Leys Ward lying to the District Council ward of Thringstone and Our draft recommendations for this area north of Meadow Lane from this that part of the Broom Leys ward lying to reflect our proposals for neighbouring division to this Coalville South the north of Meadow Lane Coalville. Having visited the area we division in order to prevent recommend boundaries which, we consider having to create a new polling reflect the evidence of community identity district. which we received and which maintain local ties. Out recommended division provides a good level of electoral equality. Please note:- Some of the figures used in Appendix A for the Electorate (2021) for North West Leicestershire bear no correlation to those accepted by the LGBCE when undertaking the boundary review for North West Leicestershire .
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