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Final Recommendations on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Derwentside in County Durham LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FUTURE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR DERWENTSIDE IN COUNTY DURHAM Report to the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions October 1998 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND This report sets out the Commission’s final recommendations on the electoral arrangements for Derwentside in County Durham. Members of the Commission are: Professor Malcolm Grant (Chairman) Helena Shovelton (Deputy Chairman) Peter Brokenshire Professor Michael Clarke Pamela Gordon Robin Gray Robert Hughes Barbara Stephens (Chief Executive) ©Crown Copyright 1998 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 LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE v SUMMARY vii 1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 CURRENT ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS 3 3 DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS 7 4 RESPONSES TO CONSULTATION 9 5 ANALYSIS AND FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS 11 6 NEXT STEPS 23 APPENDIX A Final Recommendations for Derwentside: Detailed Mapping 25 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND iii iv LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Local Government Commission for England 20 October 1998 Dear Secretary of State On 14 October 1997 the Commission began a periodic electoral review of Derwentside under the Local Government Act 1992. We published our draft recommendations in April 1998 and undertook an eight- week period of consultation. We have now prepared our final recommendations in the light of the consultation. We have confirmed our draft recommendations, subject to one change to the name of a ward in the light of further comments (see paragraph 76). This report sets out our final recommendations for changes to electoral arrangements in Derwentside. We recommend that Derwentside District Council should be served by 55 councillors representing 22 wards, and that changes should be made to ward boundaries in order to improve electoral equality, having regard to the statutory criteria. We recommend that the Council should continue to be elected together every four years. We note that you have now set out in the White Paper Modern Local Government – In Touch with the People (Cm 4014, HMSO), legislative proposals for a number of changes to local authority electoral arrangements. However, until such time as that new legislation is in place we are obliged to conduct our work in accordance with current legislation, and to continue our current approach to periodic electoral reviews. I would like to thank members and officers of the District Council and other local people who have contributed to the review. Their co-operation and assistance have been very much appreciated by Commissioners and staff. Yours sincerely PROFESSOR MALCOLM GRANT Chairman LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND v vi LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND SUMMARY The Commission began a review of Derwentside These recommendations seek to ensure that the on 14 October 1997. We published our draft number of electors represented by each district recommendations for electoral arrangements on 28 councillor is as nearly as possible the same, having April 1998, after which we undertook an eight- regard to local circumstances. week period of consultation. ● In all except one of the wards, the number of ● This report summarises the representations electors per councillor would vary by no we received during consultation on our draft more than 10 per cent from the district recommendations, and offers our final average. Burnhope ward would vary by 12 recommendations to the Secretary of State. per cent. ● This improved electoral equality is forecast We found that the existing electoral arrangements to continue, with the number of electors per provide unequal representation of electors in councillor in all wards, except Burnhope, Derwentside: expected to vary by no more than 10 per cent from the average for the district by ● in 12 of the 23 wards the number of electors 2002. Burnhope ward would continue to represented by each councillor varies by vary by 12 per cent from the average. more than 10 per cent from the average for the district, and in five wards by more than 20 per cent from the average; All further correspondence on these ● by 2002 electoral equality is expected to recommendations and the matters discussed worsen, with the number of electors per in this report should be addressed to the councillor forecast to vary by more than 10 Secretary of State for the Environment, per cent from the average in 13 wards, and Transport and the Regions, who will not by more than 20 per cent in five wards. make an order implementing the Commission’s recommendations before 30 Our main final recommendations for future November 1998: electoral arrangements (Figure 1 and paragraph 76) are that: The Secretary of State Department of the Environment, ● Derwentside District Council should be Transport and the Regions served by 55 councillors, the same as at Local Government Review present; Eland House Bressenden Place ● there should be 22 wards, one less than at London SW1E 5DU present; ● changes should be made to the boundaries of 18 of the existing wards, including abolishing one ward, while five wards should retain their existing boundaries; ● elections for the whole Council should continue to take place every four years. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND vii Figure 1: The Commission’s Final Recommendations: Summary Ward name Number of Constituent areas Map reference councillors 1 Annfield Plain 3 Annfield Plain ward (part); Large map South Moor ward (part) 2 Benfieldside 3 Benfieldside ward (part) Large map 3 Blackhill 3 Benfieldside ward (part); Blackhill Large map ward (part) 4 Burnhope 1 Unchanged (Burnhope parish) Map 2 5 Burnopfield 3 Burnopfield ward (part) Large map 6 Castleside 1 Unchanged (Healeyfield and Map 2 Muggleswick parishes) 7 Catchgate 2 Annfield Plain ward (part); Large map Catchgate ward 8 Consett East 1 Crookhall ward (part) Large map 9 Consett North 3 Blackhill ward (part); Consett North Large map ward; Consett South ward (part); Ebchester & Medomsley ward (part); Leadgate ward (part) 10 Consett South 2 Consett South ward (part); Crookhall Large map ward (part); Delves Lane ward (part) 11 Cornsay 1 Unchanged (Cornsay, Hedleyhope and Map 2 Satley parishes) 12 Craghead & 3 Craghead ward; South Stanley ward Large map South Stanley (part); Stanley Hall ward (part) 13 Delves Lane 3 Crookhall ward (part); Delves Lane Large map ward (part) 14 Dipton 2 Burnopfield ward (part); Dipton ward Large map 15 Ebchester & 3 Benfieldside ward (part); Ebchester Large map Medomsley & Medomsley ward (part) 16 Esh 3 Unchanged (Esh parish) Map 2 17 Havannah 3 Havannah ward (part); Tanfield Large map ward (part) viii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND Figure 1 (continued): The Commission’s Final Recommendations: Summary Ward name Number of Constituent areas Map reference councillors 18 Lanchester 3 Unchanged (Greencroft and Map 2 Lanchester parishes) 19 Leadgate 3 Crookhall ward (part); Ebchester & Large map Medomsley ward (part); Leadgate ward (part) 20 South Moor 3 Havannah ward (part); South Moor Large map ward (part); South Stanley ward (part) 21 Stanley Hall 3 South Stanley ward (part); Stanley Large map Hall ward (part) 22 Tanfield 3 Burnopfield ward (part); Havannah Large map ward (part); Tanfield ward (part) Notes: 1 The district of Derwentside is unparished except for the wards of Burnhope, Castleside, Cornsay, Esh and Lanchester. 2 Map 2 and the large map inserted at the back of the report illustrate the proposed wards outlined above. LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND ix x LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND 1. INTRODUCTION 1 This report contains our final recommendations widely. The closing date for receipt of on the electoral arrangements for the district of representations was 19 January 1998. At Stage Two Derwentside in County Durham. We have now we considered all the representations received reviewed all the districts in County Durham during Stage One and prepared our draft (except Darlington) as part of our programme of recommendations. periodic electoral reviews of all principal local authority areas in England. 5 Stage Three began on 28 April 1998 with the publication of our report, Draft Recommendations 2 In undertaking these reviews, we have had on the Future Electoral Arrangements for Derwentside regard to: in County Durham, and ended on 22 June 1998. Comments were sought on our preliminary ● the statutory criteria contained in section 13(5) conclusions. Finally, during Stage Four we of the Local Government Act 1992; reconsidered our draft recommendations in the light of the Stage Three consultation and now ● the Rules to be Observed in Considering Electoral publish our final recommendations. Arrangements contained in Schedule 11 to the Local Government Act 1972. 3 We have also had regard to our Guidance and Procedural Advice for Local Authorities and Other Interested Parties (published in March 1996, supplemented in September 1996 and updated in March 1998), which sets out our approach to the reviews. 4 This review was in four stages.
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