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Post by andrewteale on Feb 10, 2017 20:25:31 GMT
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Post by Foggy on Feb 10, 2017 21:21:45 GMT
Test Valley Borough Council is recommended to go down from 48 councillors to 43, with Andover wards going from 15 to 16 most likely. It is a pity that it's beyond the scope of the LGBCE to recommend that Test Valley Borough Council go down from 48 councillors to not existing at all.
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Post by greenhert on Feb 10, 2017 21:51:58 GMT
Test Valley Borough Council is recommended to go down from 48 councillors to 43, with Andover wards going from 15 to 16 most likely. It is a pity that it's beyond the scope of the LGBCE to recommend that Test Valley Borough Council go down from 48 councillors to not existing at all. I concur. Andover should become part of Basingstoke borough (in fact the constituency of North West Hampshire, where Andover is the dominant town, was created mainly from the overgrown pre-1983 constituency of Basingstoke, with some outer villages of the Winchester constituency added in), and the Romsey area part of New Forest district.
It makes as much sense in district terms as Hertsmere in my home county.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 10, 2017 21:56:50 GMT
It is a pity that it's beyond the scope of the LGBCE to recommend that Test Valley Borough Council go down from 48 councillors to not existing at all. I concur. Andover should become part of Basingstoke borough (in fact the constituency of North West Hampshire, where Andover is the dominant town, was created mainly from the overgrown pre-1983 constituency of Basingstoke, with some outer villages of the Winchester constituency added in), and the Romsey area part of New Forest district.
It makes as much sense in district terms as Hertsmere in my home county.
I agree with the former idea but not the latter. The Romsey area is effectively outer suburbs of Southampton now (not as clearly as Eastleigh, but still... ) and should either be a local authority in its own right – perhaps alongside Totton – or else go in with Winchester. I think it'd be a poor fit with the New Forest. Even Hertsmere seems more coherent to me than the Test Valley, though admittedly I'm looking at it from afar.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Feb 10, 2017 22:19:09 GMT
It is a pity that it's beyond the scope of the LGBCE to recommend that Test Valley Borough Council go down from 48 councillors to not existing at all. I concur. Andover should become part of Basingstoke borough (in fact the constituency of North West Hampshire, where Andover is the dominant town, was created mainly from the overgrown pre-1983 constituency of Basingstoke, with some outer villages of the Winchester constituency added in), and the Romsey area part of New Forest district.
It makes as much sense in district terms as Hertsmere in my home county.
Andover was in the Winchester constituency prior to 1983
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Post by greenhert on Feb 10, 2017 22:30:44 GMT
Only true from 1974-83. Andover was in Basingstoke from 1918 to 1974.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Feb 10, 2017 22:39:33 GMT
Only true from 1974-83. Andover was in Basingstoke from 1918 to 1974. Yes that is what is meant by 'pre-1983' or 'prior to 1983'. Hampshire North West wasn't created from 1918-1974 constituencies - it was created from those that immediately preceded it. As such most of it came from the Winchester seat. By your logic you might as well say that Witham was created in 2010 mainly from the Maldon seat because it was in the Maldon seat from 1885 to 1974
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Post by Antiochian on Feb 11, 2017 12:31:05 GMT
A few of the options for breaking up Hampshire County Council involve creating a Northern Hampshire authority stretching along the Southwest line (then having a central Hampshire structure based on Winchester) and a super Southcoast conurbation based on Soton/Porstmouth and points in between).
A breakup of HCC may preempt 2019 elections for TVBC on new boundaries (with any luck)...
BTW, Andover's urban area has a greater population than Winchester's these days.
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Post by andrewteale on Feb 13, 2017 20:02:39 GMT
Two new electoral changes orders have been published: The Vale of White Horse (Electoral Changes) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/128). Updates the boundaries of the Hendreds and Harwell, Kingston and Cumnor, and Sutton Courtenay and Marcham divisions of Oxfordshire county council with effect from the 2017 election, and seven wards of Vale of White Horse council with effect from the 2019 election, to take account of recent changes to parish boundaries. The South Oxfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/129). Updates the boundaries of ten divisions of Oxfordshire county council with effect from the 2017 election, and twelve wards of South Oxfordshire council with effect from the 2019 election, to take account of recent changes to parish boundaries.
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Post by andrewteale on Feb 21, 2017 23:56:15 GMT
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 13, 2017 19:49:31 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published: The Isles of Scilly (Electoral Changes) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/326). Introduces new electoral arrangements for the Council of the Isles of Scilly to come into effect at the 2017 election. There are five new parishes, of which four are single-member and one (St Mary's) elects twelve councillors.
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Post by andrewp on Mar 13, 2017 20:09:00 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published: The Isles of Scilly (Electoral Changes) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/326). Introduces new electoral arrangements for the Council of the Isles of Scilly to come into effect at the 2017 election. There are five new parishes, of which four are single-member and one (St Mary's) elects twelve councillors. Reduces the number of councillors from 21 to 16. The islands are appalled by this. Each of the 4 smaller islands, electorates between 70-150 are being reduced from 2 councillors to 1. Lots of mutterings that the workload is too high for one councillor. The council has had 2-3 vacant seats for about 5 years I think.
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 13, 2017 20:40:22 GMT
The solution is obvious - what they need is an elected mayor.
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Post by thirdchill on Mar 13, 2017 21:37:56 GMT
The solution is obvious - what they need is an elected mayor. The scilly mayor?
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Post by peterl on Mar 13, 2017 22:20:16 GMT
Maybe they could form a combined authority with Cornwall and share a mayor.
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Post by hullenedge on Mar 14, 2017 8:32:53 GMT
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Post by martinwhelton on Mar 14, 2017 14:01:21 GMT
Publication of the draft ward boundaries in Croydon. Tory submission pretty much adopted and will see them gain seats at the expense of Labour if implemented. Proposals see Addiscombe and Ashburton split in half with new boundaries favouring the Tories; Waddon pretty much unchanged; and a new Central ward which will be unpredictable due to new developments. If they had existed in 2014, the council would probably have been 35-35. www.lgbce.org.uk/current-reviews/greater-london/croydon
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2017 7:39:47 GMT
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Post by evergreenadam on Mar 16, 2017 21:57:01 GMT
Publication of the draft ward boundaries in Croydon. Tory submission pretty much adopted and will see them gain seats at the expense of Labour if implemented. Proposals see Addiscombe and Ashburton split in half with new boundaries favouring the Tories; Waddon pretty much unchanged; and a new Central ward which will be unpredictable due to new developments. If they had existed in 2014, the council would probably have been 35-35. www.lgbce.org.uk/current-reviews/greater-london/croydonWaddon gains the modern Wandle Park development off Purley Way, currently anomalously in Broad Green ward. New boundaries seem to be more closely related to local communities given the greater freedom for the LGBCE to allocate a mix of 2 and 3 member wards than when the boundaries were originally drawn up.
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Mar 16, 2017 22:08:22 GMT
Is this a good time to ask johnloony for his thoughts on the new Croydon?
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