Local resident submissions to the Gloucester City Council electoral review This PDF document contains submissions from local residents with surnames A-H. Some versions of Adobe allow the viewer to move quickly between bookmarks. Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Theresa Allen E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: As a resident of , Quedgeley I wish to protest about being moved to Kingsway Ward. We are an established part of Quedgeley, Gloucester. completely inappropriate. Putting the parts of the exsiting Quedgeley into Kingsway would mean that we wouldn't be represented correctly, the needs of Old Quedgeley are completely different to the new and up and coming Kingsway. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4957 03/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Mr Argent E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 2: Use Lobleys Drive as boundary 1: Use Abbeymead Avenue as boundary Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 1: Use Abbeymead Avenue as boundary Annotation 2: Use Lobleys Drive as boundary Comment text: . We are well served by local services, the majority of which are located in Hucclecote, for example Hucclecote library, the playing fields (King George V Playing Fields), the community centre, dentist, doctors, shops, banks etc. Most of the primary school aged children in our street go to Dinglewell School, which is also in Hucclecote. With this in mind, it makes sense for the voters within our street to have the democratic right to have their say on these vital services that they actually use daily. Whilst we appreciate the need to adjust the boundaries, the current proposals would mean that local residents would loose the right to vote on the community services and issues that actually effect them. Surely the point of local ward boundaries is to ensure that people have the chance to vote on the public services that effect them? Perhaps a more suitable proposal, which we have tried to annotate on the online map would be to utilise Abbeymead Avenue and Lobleys Drive (the two main distrubutor roads in the area) as the boundary between Hucclecote and Abbeymead wards. This would allow some adjustment to the boundary, be clear concise boundaries formed by established main roads, but importantly ensure that the various constituents within the wards could still vote on the issues that actually effect them. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4916 25/02/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Lawrence and Alison Arnall E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 1: Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 1: Comment text: Changes to Gloucester Abbey Ward We have looked at the proposed changes to the Abbey Ward, Gloucester, which include splitting Abbey Ward into the Abbeydale and Abbeymead Wards, and have discovered to our surprise that our house has been placed in the Abbeymead rather than the Abbeydale Ward. We consider the proposal to be very unsatisfactory for the following reasons –• The only way out of The Chase is onto Bittern Avenue, Abbeydale. Bittern Avenue is in the new Abbeydale Ward.• We have lived in Abbeydale for 25 years. We strongly feel part of Abbeydale community. We have always used the Abbeydale shops and facilities. Our children have grown up in Abbeydale, attended Heron School, Abbeydale and went to activities at Abbeydale Community Centre. Our Royal Mail postal address is Abbeydale. Please would you consider amending the new Abbeydale Ward boundary so it includes The Chase, The Malverns and the north side of Bittern Avenue. This would then allow current Abbeydale residents, who have no direct road access to Abbeymead, to be placed in the Abbeydale Ward. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/5013 16/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Heather Arnold E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: N/A Comment text: Why is Church Drive added to Kingsway? Church Drive is in the middle of Quedgeley. Kingsway is a new estate, over the A38. Field Court Schools are in the heart of Quedgeley, not on the outskirts. Please rethink. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4928 03/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Davina Ball E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Feature Annotations 1: Quedgeley/Kingsway border Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2013. Map Features: Annotation 1: Quedgeley/Kingsway border Comment text: I believe the boarder for the Kingsway/Quedgeley ward should be the A38. You currently have Quedgeley parish council offices and Quedgeley community centre in the new Kingsway ward. The A38 is a natural boundary. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4950 03/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Natalie Boots E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: We have just moved into our first home in Quedgeley (church drive) and we strongly oppose to being a part of Kingsway. Both me and my partner have lived in Quedgeley all of our lives, my partner plays for quedgeley wanderers football club. The A38 is a obvious divide for quedgeley and Kingsway. We have quedgeley church, quedgeley doctors & dentists, quedgeley fryer all in a short distance from our home and feel we are a main part of quedgeley and do not wish to be a part of Kingsway. We also would like our future children to go to a quedgeley school as we have 2 within a very short walking distance and therefore if my children would need to go to a Kingsway school it would be a car journey which wouldn't help with traffic build up around schools. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4955 03/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Susan Buckland E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: My Family Comment text: We (my husband and me ) have lived in for nearly 30 years and our daughter all her life , she's 22. We do not want to be moved to Kingsway ward. We are happy being in Quedgeley. Quedgeley as a village has been in existence for a lot longer than Kingway. In deed it did not exist when we first moved to Church Drive Quedgeley. As far as we can remember when it was first developed the powers that be wanted it to have a separate identity. We are completely opposed to the new boundary proposals. There is no good reason for it, apart from the fact that somebody must be making some money from it , if the change took place. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4949 03/03/2015 Local Boundary Commission for England Consultation Portal Page 1 of 1 Gloucester District Personal Details: Name: Laura Bullivant E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text: Utterly ridiculous - use the existing boundary of the A38 - why class the Old Thatch which has been a part of Quedgeley since the 1300's as Kingsway, Church Drive was also one of the first estates in quedgeley why move it now. Uploaded Documents: None Uploaded https://consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/print/informed-representation/4929 03/03/2015 Porter, Johanna From: Elaine Cocks Sent: 08 March 2015 15:21 To: Reviews@ Cc: Subject: Proposed changes to ward boundaries in Abbeydale Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged For the attention of the Review Officer: It has been brought to my attention that two new wards will be created in Abbeydale and Abbeymead in 2016. I live at The Malverns, Abbeydale, Gloucester; and I understand that my property will be in the Abbeymead ward under the new proposals. I am writing to ask that you reconsider this and place my home in the Abbeydale ward. We live in Abbeydale and consequently any decisions made by Abbeydale councillors will directly affect us. Your proposals will mean that I am unable to use my democratic right to vote for Councillors serving the area where I live. As nice as Abbeymead is, we don’t actually live there and I am struggling to find a reason as to why I would vote for a candidate to represent that area. On occasion I will go to Abbeymead to the Dentist or to the Turmot Hoer, but otherwise I very rarely even drive through Abbeymead. It therefore does not make any sense as to why it is appropriate that I would have a say on who is elected to serve there. This arrangement would also be unfair on the voters in Abbeymead in that people in neighbouring Abbeydale can vote for their council representation. What level of commitment will the Abbeymead councillors have for the Abbeydale residents in their ward? I suspect that my interests and that of our neighbours may be overlooked. I fail to see that councillors that I have to vote for would have the desire or time to look after my interests when I live in a different estate to their ward. If my interests are served by the Abbeydale Councillors then surely I have the right to vote in their election.