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Post by lancastrian on May 29, 2013 22:46:54 GMT
Is doktorb planning to make a submission on South Ribble? How much power does this review have regarding Buckshaw Village- doesn't it need one of the other sort of review to fix it(whatever they're called)? I like the 'there is no justification for one ward to have more councillors than another' submission.
On York: Why can't the University just have it's own ward, like Lancaster?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2013 7:55:02 GMT
The Commission can look at Buckshaw but that is not within the remit of the South Ribble review.
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Post by iainbhx on Jun 15, 2013 6:26:15 GMT
Does anyone on here know anything about York? I don't(other than a few touristy visits) , but simply combining Fulford(1 member) and Heslington (2 members, isn't that a student area?) to make one three member ward doesn't look too good. Looking at the map it looks very odd - there is no real connection between the two areas, you have to go into and out of Fishergate ward to get between them. As Fishergate ward is a 2-member ward I'd have joined the 1-member Fulford with Fishergate to get a 3-member ward clearly and distictively centred along the A19 spine road. (The LGBCE maps are a bit fiddly to use as they don't indicate on the maps which are 3-, 2- or 1-member wards) I lived in York (or was based in York) between 1989 and 1995. Fulford and Fishergate makes marginally more sense than Fulford and Heslington. Heslington does include a lot of York University students.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2013 22:07:20 GMT
Looking at the map it looks very odd - there is no real connection between the two areas, you have to go into and out of Fishergate ward to get between them. As Fishergate ward is a 2-member ward I'd have joined the 1-member Fulford with Fishergate to get a 3-member ward clearly and distictively centred along the A19 spine road. (The LGBCE maps are a bit fiddly to use as they don't indicate on the maps which are 3-, 2- or 1-member wards) I lived in York (or was based in York) between 1989 and 1995. Fulford and Fishergate makes marginally more sense than Fulford and Heslington. Heslington does include a lot of York University students. It's 86% student according to the 2011 census. Fishergate is around 30%.
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Post by andrewteale on Jul 22, 2013 18:25:28 GMT
A new electoral changes order has been published: The Tower Hamlets (Electoral Changes) Order 2013 (SI 2013/1786). Introduces new ward boundaries for Tower Hamlets with effect from the 2014 election. The council size is cut from 51 to 45 and the number of wards goes up from 17 to 20. There are seven three-member wards (Bethnal Green, Blackwall and Cubitt Town, Bow East, Lansbury, Mile End, St Peter's and Whitechapel), eleven two-member wards (Bow West, Bromley North, Bromley South, Canary Wharf, Island Gardens, Shadwell, Spitalfields and Banglatown, St Dunstan's, St Katharine's and Wapping, Stepney Green and Weavers) and two single-member wards (Limehouse and Poplar).
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Post by Merseymike on Jul 23, 2013 13:34:28 GMT
Interesting that Lancaster was mentioned - the University ward is relatively recent and was rather controversial given that there could quite easily end up being a by election when hardly anyone would be there. The University used to be within the marginal Scotforth East ward. The Tories were never too happy about that as Lancaster Uni tends to be leftish and so ruined their chances in what would have been a Tory ward. Indeed, Scotforth East is still very marginal between Tory and Labour. The University ward is Labour with the Greens in second
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Post by lancastrian on Jul 24, 2013 23:56:10 GMT
Interesting that Lancaster was mentioned - the University ward is relatively recent and was rather controversial given that there could quite easily end up being a by election when hardly anyone would be there. The University used to be within the marginal Scotforth East ward. The Tories were never too happy about that as Lancaster Uni tends to be leftish and so ruined their chances in what would have been a Tory ward. Indeed, Scotforth East is still very marginal between Tory and Labour. The University ward is Labour with the Greens in second The problem now is that half the students are across the road in Ellel ward and have made that too big. IIRC the successor to Scotforth East looks better for the Tories?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2013 17:42:54 GMT
Interesting that Lancaster was mentioned - the University ward is relatively recent and was rather controversial given that there could quite easily end up being a by election when hardly anyone would be there. The University used to be within the marginal Scotforth East ward. The Tories were never too happy about that as Lancaster Uni tends to be leftish and so ruined their chances in what would have been a Tory ward. Indeed, Scotforth East is still very marginal between Tory and Labour. The University ward is Labour with the Greens in second The draft proposals for Lancaster (before a proposed amendment for a limited number) can be seen here - (very big file, best to save rather than clicking on it straight) www.lgbce.org.uk/__documents/lgbce/reviews/lancaster/stage-3/lancaster_d_sh1_v2_so.pdf
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Post by jamesgroves on Aug 8, 2013 15:28:39 GMT
Interesting that Lancaster was mentioned - the University ward is relatively recent and was rather controversial given that there could quite easily end up being a by election when hardly anyone would be there. The University used to be within the marginal Scotforth East ward. The Tories were never too happy about that as Lancaster Uni tends to be leftish and so ruined their chances in what would have been a Tory ward. Indeed, Scotforth East is still very marginal between Tory and Labour. The University ward is Labour with the Greens in second The problem now is that half the students are across the road in Ellel ward and have made that too big. IIRC the successor to Scotforth East looks better for the Tories? Scotforth East will be unchanged. When it included campus, it was actually strongly Lib Dem throughout most of the 80s and 90s (except for a period of Labour control in 95-99). The Lib Dems lost it in 2011 and may never get it back. The University ward is enlarged to include the parts of campus currently in Ellel ward (sensible decision) but also to include the Scotforth Rural parish, i.e. Bailrigg village, Burrow Heights and Langthwaite (a slightly more questionable decision). The rural parts only have 271 electors (high turnout, heavily Tory), versus 4588 for the campus (low turnout, but Labour has won every poll there since 2010). I don't think the Tories will stand a chance in 2015 (GE turnout on campus will be around 40-45%) but in 2019, who knows, it could be an interesting fight, especially as the draft local plan allocates a lot of the greenfield land between Bailrigg and Hala for housing. J
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 10:26:18 GMT
A few days left to respond to the initial proposals for Wyre (http://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/north-west/lancashire/wyre-fer)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2013 18:20:13 GMT
South Ribble feedback: www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/north-west/lancashire/south-ribble-fer(Including something from a Mr L Pennington) Both the South Ribble Council and Labour Party submissions want to rename "Little Hoole and Much Hoole" which I find indefensible =/ (SRBC want to introduce "and Hospital Inn" to a ward name, which will get most people looking at their A-Zs, I tell you)
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Post by democratically socialising on Aug 21, 2013 12:14:20 GMT
Regarding York, the LGBCE have published the submissions and there does seem to be a consensus emerging about splitting Heslington parish, including from the University Labour Club (the Fulford-Heslington merger was proposed by the local Labour Party at the earlier stage). This would create a separate University ward and merges Heslington village with Fulford. Be interesting to see if they go for it given that they've said they are resistant to splitting parishes.
Which councils have University wards? So far I've found Lancaster, Preston and Middlesbrough
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Aug 21, 2013 12:48:37 GMT
There are University wards in:
Norwich Middlesbrough Bradford Kingston upon Hull Preston Lancaster Coleraine Leeds
(Seems to be very much a northern thing - only Norwich and Coleraine are not in the north of England)
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Post by democratically socialising on Aug 21, 2013 13:07:49 GMT
I can't find any references to a University ward in Bradford or Leeds?
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Post by kevinlarkin on Aug 21, 2013 13:54:09 GMT
The Leeds and Bradford wards were both abolished in 2004. The Norwich ward is also a Norfolk County electoral division. Oxfordshire has a University Parks electoral division.
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