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Electoral review July 2012

Final recommendations on the new electoral arrangements Summary for County Council

Who we are: Council size Electoral arrangements The Local Government As part of its final Our final recommendations Boundary Commission for recommendations, the propose that Cumbria’s Commission recommends that councillors should represent 84 is an independent Cumbria County Council should single-member divisions across body which conducts be represented by 84 county the county. electoral reviews of local councillors in future, the same as under the current arrangements. The Commission believes its final authority areas. recommendations meet its Whilst the Commission received obligations to: Electoral reviews: evidence which proposed a reduction in council size, we were The purpose of an ■ Deliver electoral equality for not persuaded that an alternative voters. electoral review is to would necessarily deliver effective decide on the appropriate and convenient local government ■ Reflect local community for Cumbria. electoral arrangements – interests and identities. We consider that a council size of the number of councillors, ■ Promote effective and 84 members will ensure the the names, number and convenient local government. council can discharge its roles boundaries of electoral and responsibilities effectively divisions – for and will provide for a pattern of a local authority. electoral divisions that reflects community identities across Cumbria. Why Cumbria? We are conducting an You can read the full report and view the maps on our website at www.lgbce.org.uk We will also make them available in council electoral review of buildings and libraries. Cumbria County Council to deliver improved levels Stage starts Description of electoral equality for local voters. 12 October 2010 Submission of proposals for council size to the Commission Cumbria currently has 29 March 2011 Submission of proposals on electoral division high levels of electoral arrangements to the Commission inequality so that the value 21 June 2011 Commission’s analysis of proposals for of your vote - in county electoral divisions and formulation of draft council elections - varies recommendations depending on where you 25 October 2011 Publication of draft recommendations and consultation on them live in the county. 31 January 2012 Commission’s analysis of proposals and formulation of final recommendations Submissions received Elsewhere in , the therefore propose to avoid During our consultation on council Commission gave serious splitting the town of and, size, we received 37 submissions. consideration to adopting instead, create a Millom division We then received 30 submissions proposals put to it during and a Millom Without division. consultation. In particular, we from local people and groups In , the Commission considered alternative proposals across Cumbria to assist us in put forward a pattern of divisions for an east/west split of preparing our draft that matches the current electoral Cockemouth as opposed to the recommendations. A further 31 arrangements of the district. We north/south division of the town submissions were put to the confirm that pattern of electoral which we had previously Commission in response to our divisions as our final proposed. Despite the Commission’s draft recommendations. recommendations. serious consideration, it was General analysis unable to adopt the alternative In District, the scheme as it would have a wider The draft recommendations Commission proposes to accept a impact on electoral divisions propose that each of number of amendments to across the borough and, in Cumbria’s districts should be division boundaries in the particular, could lead to significant represented by the following area as a result of the submission electoral variances elsewhere. number of county councillors. made by Kendal Town Council. The Commission believes that In Barrow-in-Furness, the District Number of most of the amendments put to it Commission is proposing to county by the Town Council would deliver rename a number of the electoral councillors stronger boundaries and deliver divisions it proposed at the draft electoral equality for voters. Allerdale recommendations stage. As such, 16 However, the proposed Borough the final recommendations rename amendment to move the Barrow-in- Abbotsmead division as Risedale Stainbank Avenue and Furness Borough 11 division; Barrow Island & Hawesmead Avenue into Kendal Salthouse division as Old Barrow City 18 South division would not deliver a division; and Newbarns & Beacon good level of electoral equality Copeland Hill division as Newbarns & 12 and we do not propose to include Borough Parkside division. it in the final recommendations. Eden district 9 In Carlisle City, we also propose a What happens next? South Lakeland number of changes to the names 18 District of divisions put forward in our We have now completed our draft recommendations. As such review of electoral arrangements NB: These recommendations have no we propose to rename Garlands for Cumbria County Council. direct impact on the electoral arrangements of division as Harraby South Cumbria’s district councils. The changes we have proposed division; Harraby division as must now be approved by In response to representations Harraby North division; Hougton Parliament. A draft order – the made to it during public & District division as Houghton & legal document which brings into consultation, the Commission has Irthington division; Wetheral East made a number of changes to its division as Corby & Hayton force our recommendations – will draft recommendations. In division; Wetheral West division be laid in Parliament. Subject to particular, we are proposing as Wetheral division; and Dalston Parliamentary scrutiny, the new several changes to the names of & Cummerdale division as electoral arrangements will come electoral divisions. Dalston & Burgh division. into force at the county council elections in 2013. In Allerdale Borough, we propose In Copeland Borough, the to rename Abbeytown division as Commission proposes to alter the The full report and maps are division in boundaries of divisions in the available to download at response to comments received Millom area in light of evidence www.lgbce.org.uk. during consultation. received during consultation. We

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is an independent body set up by Parliament in April 2010. It is independent of government and political parties, and is directly accountable to Parliament through a committee chaired by the Speaker of the House of Commons. It is responsible for conducting boundary, electoral and structural reviews of local government areas