Electoral Review Stage Two – Warding Arrangements
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Electoral Review Stage Two – Warding Arrangements Submission to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England (March 2019) Civic Centre Lampton Road Hounslow TW3 4DN Contents SECTION ONE: Overview of Submission.................................................................................................. 3 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 3 Scope of Review .................................................................................................................................. 3 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Historic Considerations ....................................................................................................................... 5 Naming Conventions ........................................................................................................................... 5 Number of Councillors Per Ward ........................................................................................................ 6 Summary of Proposals ........................................................................................................................ 6 SECTION TWO: Borough Profile .............................................................................................................. 7 Overview ............................................................................................................................................. 7 Hounslow - The people ....................................................................................................................... 7 Transport ............................................................................................................................................. 8 Economic Information ........................................................................................................................ 9 Deprivation ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Challenges Facing the Council and Council Priorities ....................................................................... 10 SECTION THREE: Identifying the new ward boundaries for Hounslow for 2022 .................................. 12 Background ....................................................................................................................................... 12 Proposals ........................................................................................................................................... 12 Electorate in 2024 forecast by new proposed wards ........................................................................... 13 Maps of the London Borough of Hounslow .......................................................................................... 14 Map 1: Map showing current Hounslow ward boundaries .............................................................. 14 Map 2: Map Showing Proposed New Boundaries ............................................................................ 15 SECTION 4: WARD BY WARD PROPOSALS............................................................................................. 16 The Reasoning for the Proposed Wards for the London Borough of Hounslow from 2024 in Alphabetical Order ................................................................................................................................ 16 BEDFONT ........................................................................................................................................... 16 BRENTFORD EAST .............................................................................................................................. 17 BRENTFORD WEST ............................................................................................................................ 18 CHISWICK HOMEFIELDS .................................................................................................................... 19 CHISWICK RIVERSIDE ......................................................................................................................... 20 CRANFORD ........................................................................................................................................ 21 FELTHAM NORTH .............................................................................................................................. 22 FELTHAM TOWN ............................................................................................................................... 23 HANWORTH PARK ............................................................................................................................. 24 HANWORTH VILLAGE ........................................................................................................................ 26 HESTON CENTRAL ............................................................................................................................. 27 HESTON EAST .................................................................................................................................... 28 1 HESTON WEST ................................................................................................................................... 29 HOUNSLOW HEATH .......................................................................................................................... 30 HOUNSLOW CENTRAL ....................................................................................................................... 31 HOUNSLOW SOUTH .......................................................................................................................... 32 HOUNSLOW WEST ............................................................................................................................ 33 ISLEWORTH ....................................................................................................................................... 34 OSTERLEY AND SPRING GROVE ......................................................................................................... 35 SYON ................................................................................................................................................. 36 TURNHAM GREEN ............................................................................................................................. 37 SECTION SIX: Appendices ...................................................................................................................... 38 Appendix 1 - Timetable ..................................................................................................................... 38 Appendix 2: An extract of the copy of the draft minutes of the council meeting making this decision on 12th March 2019. .......................................................................................................... 39 2 SECTION ONE: Overview of Submission Introduction The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is undertaking a review of the London Borough of Hounslow’s local government electoral arrangements. The outcome of the review will be implemented for the May 2022 Council elections. The review is in two stages. The preliminary stage was concerned with determining “Council Size” in terms of the number of Councillors. Having identified the size, the next stage is concerned with determining the warding arrangements in terms of the number, their size and the number of representatives in each. The Council welcomes the review and the opportunity to submit its preferred option to the Commission. This report, which has been directed by a working party of the Council’s member-level Audit and Governance Committee and approved by the full Borough Council at its meeting on 12th March 2019, contains the Councils response to the second stage – warding arrangements. An extract of the copy of the draft minutes of the council meeting making this decision is included as an appendix to this submission. The Council welcomes the outcome of the first phase of the electoral review that the LGBCE is minded to accept the proposal for the Council to comprise sixty councillors for the London Borough of Hounslow and has worked on this as the basis of our warding proposals. Scope of Review The review being undertaken by the Boundary Commission covers the entire area of the London Borough of Hounslow. In making its proposals, the Boundary Commission will apply the following statutory criteria making its proposals: • The need to secure electoral equality (a consistent number of electors per Councillor) • Community identity (strong ward boundaries that reflect communities); and • Securing effective and convenient local government (coherent wards) The review was initiated in June 2018 and dealt first with the preliminary stage which was to determine the future size of the Council (specifically the number of elected Councillors who will form the Council from 2022). This phase was completed in November 2018. The second phase which looks at warding arrangements commenced in earnest in January 2019 and concluded in March 2019 when a final position was determined by the Council for submission to the Boundary Commission. In this part of the process, the Council was required to identify proposals