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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 11, 2022 22:16:04 GMT
It would make more sense to come up with sensible parish wards in the first place then use them as building blocks for district wards and county divisions
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Post by westmercian on Jan 11, 2022 22:57:26 GMT
Far too sensible. This is England after all. Where would we be with sensible electoral geography?
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Post by Adam in Stroud on Jan 11, 2022 23:07:32 GMT
Far too sensible. This is England after all. Where would we be with sensible electoral geography? In Mercia? Bring back the Tribal Hidage!
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 12, 2022 1:23:16 GMT
They are proposing the most epically small parish ward for Malvern Town Council: Lygon. Seriously, check it out. Presumably necessitated by that area being moved into a different ward (Link) but remianing in the same County division (Langland) We have a similar mismatch in Whitby: map
White Leys is the area where the new borough boundary isn't co-terminal with the existing county boundary. Rather than extend the neighbouring parish ward to include it, they hived it off into its own 300-elector single member ward. (It's the bit on the map under the label Sandfield House.) We were due a parish review to tidy up all the fall-out from the borough review, which won't be going ahead now with the borough being abolished, but the abolition of the borough boundaries will make tidying up simpler anyway.
It's also the area in Whitby where the boundaries slice through a development area resulting in frequent emails to the elections office to tell them they've put a house in the wrong ward.
Having the whole of Whitby as a single county division in the new council means that we can wipe everything off the map and start from scratch to draw new parish wards.
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Post by andrewteale on Jan 19, 2022 17:18:05 GMT
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Post by listener on Jan 20, 2022 18:11:31 GMT
Lambeth is the last of the 25 Electoral Changes Orders for the London Boroughs with boundary changes at this year's May elections. The remaining 7 London Boroughs had boundary changes in 2014 (Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea and Tower Hamlets) and 2018 (Bexley, Croydon, Redbridge and Southwark).
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Post by evergreenadam on Jan 21, 2022 15:02:07 GMT
Lambeth is the last of the 25 Electoral Changes Orders for the London Boroughs with boundary changes at this year's May elections. The remaining 7 London Boroughs had boundary changes in 2014 (Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea and Tower Hamlets) and 2018 (Bexley, Croydon, Redbridge and Southwark). Thank goodness all done. Looking forward to the results and the shocks!
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jan 21, 2022 19:21:09 GMT
Lambeth is the last of the 25 Electoral Changes Orders for the London Boroughs with boundary changes at this year's May elections. The remaining 7 London Boroughs had boundary changes in 2014 (Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea and Tower Hamlets) and 2018 (Bexley, Croydon, Redbridge and Southwark). Thank goodness all done. Looking forward to the results and the shocks! I still find it annoying that they have not been done in synch with one another as they were ahead of the 2002 elections and (for the most part) 1978. I wonder if the census figures will all be on the new ward boundaries (hope so)
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Post by bjornhattan on Jan 21, 2022 19:27:06 GMT
Thank goodness all done. Looking forward to the results and the shocks! I still find it annoying that they have not been done in synch with one another as they were ahead of the 2002 elections and (for the most part) 1978. I wonder if the census figures will all be on the new ward boundaries (hope so) I believe there have been responses to the census' consulation requesting that results be released on the new ward boundaries. In particular, Medway Council stated they wanted data based on the boundaries which are coming into force there in 2022. The census responded by saying initial results will be released by current (i.e. 2021) ward but they may produce further data based on revised boundaries. Either way, it should still be possible to piece together figures for the new wards using output areas - especially in London where wards tend to be large. But it'll be a pain.
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Post by sjorford on Jan 25, 2022 12:11:27 GMT
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Post by greenhert on Jan 25, 2022 12:24:13 GMT
When will the relevant Order in Council be signed to implement those orders as law?
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Post by jm on Jan 25, 2022 13:32:59 GMT
So Cumberland will have 46 councillors representing single member wards based on the old county electoral divisions. Westmorland and Furness will have 65 councillors with a mixture of one, two and three member wards based on the old district wards/parishes. Seems very odd. Cumberland has a higher population yet will have 19 less councillors, why couldn't they just use the existing county divisions for both councils?
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Post by Daft H'a'porth A'peth A'pith on Jan 25, 2022 14:48:25 GMT
So Cumberland will have 46 councillors representing single member wards based on the old county electoral divisions. Westmorland and Furness will have 65 councillors with a mixture of one, two and three member wards based on the old district wards/parishes. Seems very odd. Cumberland has a higher population yet will have 19 less councillors, why couldn't they just use the existing county divisions for both councils?
Does this lopsidedness benefit any particular party?
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jan 25, 2022 17:23:42 GMT
Whitby to be two 1-member divisions instead of one 2-member division. That changes things.
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Post by carolus on Feb 6, 2022 9:45:32 GMT
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but in a classic example of a lack of joined-up thinking, I follow my previous post with the news that Stratford district is consulting on merging with neighbouring Warwick to form a new South Warwickshire district. Personally I think it's probably just as sensible (or not) as the current situation. They are also already forming a joint Local Plan. www.southwarwickshire.org.uk/swc/As an update on this, the proposal was submitted to the Secretary of State in December, after both councils voted to approve it. Stratford-on-Avon voted 26-3 in favour with two abstentions, Warwick 23-12 with 5.
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Post by andrewteale on Feb 11, 2022 16:30:11 GMT
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Post by maxque on Feb 11, 2022 23:58:06 GMT
Parliamentary Counsel’s Office and The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel? What's the difference?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 12, 2022 0:18:25 GMT
Parliamentary Counsel’s Office and The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel? What's the difference? The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel is the United Kingdom body, part of the Cabinet Office. The Parliamentary Counsel Office is a Scottish government body.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Feb 25, 2022 13:46:55 GMT
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 16, 2022 20:29:12 GMT
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