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Post by evergreenadam on Nov 2, 2022 11:30:13 GMT
nothing showing on the LGBCE website yet, but I am informed that we are getting a review in the Jewel and that the commisioners are visiting for initial discussions soon The Jewel?
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Post by The Bishop on Nov 2, 2022 11:31:17 GMT
His name for the city where he lives
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Post by Khunanup on Nov 2, 2022 14:26:28 GMT
Yes. Certainly sensible, Leigh Park having two member wards was always a bit weird and the pattern makes sense. Would have changed the Hayling wards names though... The Hayling names are fine - I don;t care much for the Leigh Park ones though The Leigh Park ones are bizarre, for identification Leigh Park East and West make complete sense, it just seems bizarre snobbery that has changed them and included West Leigh as part of the name of East. With Hayling, having Northney & North Hayling in a ward called Hayling West is also bizarre (and the new Hayling East is clearly geographically south east Hayling). So I'd have got for the rather neat (due to the names involved having geographic elements) rename of Hayling West to North Hayling & West Town & rename East to Hayling South East.
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Post by Crimson King on Nov 2, 2022 15:55:15 GMT
nothing showing on the LGBCE website yet, but I am informed that we are getting a review in the Jewel and that the commisioners are visiting for initial discussions soon The Jewel? Bradford, Jewel of the North (and 2025 City of Culture)
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Post by johnloony on Nov 2, 2022 17:38:31 GMT
Bradford, Jewel of the North (and 2025 City of Culture) They could call it the Emerald City
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Post by WJ on Dec 6, 2022 19:43:09 GMT
Consultations for Shropshire UA have been open since the 22nd of November and will be open until the 30th of January. Timetable here: www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/west-midlands/shropshire/shropshire-unitary-authority-uaThe number of councillors will stay at 74. A quick look at the numbers suggests that there will need to be considerable changes in the Shifnal area, which needs at least one extra councillor* and Shrewsbury requires at least one extra too. These could potentially come at the expense of Bridgnorth and the SW. Something odd is happening in Prees too (odder than normal that is). However the rest of the county by and large will just need a little bit of shuffling here and there to get each ward into shape. Ward division boundaries are pretty sensible at the moment, with the notable exception of the Loton and Tern divisions which are abominable. In particular the Loton division which contains two very different sets of communities, completely cut off from one another by a bridgeless Severn. To get from north to south you need to either head east to Montford Bridge or west into Wales. *Why the hell Shifnal, Cosford and Albrighton remain in Shropshire and did not find themselves in Telford and Wrekin is a complete mystery to me. They really don't fit, but I guess that's a story for another thread...
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 6, 2022 20:41:11 GMT
Consultations for Shropshire UA have been open since the 22nd of November and will be open until the 30th of January. Timetable here: www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/west-midlands/shropshire/shropshire-unitary-authority-ua... *Why the hell Shifnal, Cosford and Albrighton remain in Shropshire and did not find themselves in Telford and Wrekin is a complete mystery to me. They really don't fit, but I guess that's a story for another thread... Having worked one summer in that triangle of roads just over the border east of Albrighton, the real WTH is why that tongue of *Staffordshire* south of Codsall still exists, and why wasn't it transfered to Shropshire yonks ago.
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Post by WJ on Dec 6, 2022 20:52:24 GMT
Consultations for Shropshire UA have been open since the 22nd of November and will be open until the 30th of January. Timetable here: www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/west-midlands/shropshire/shropshire-unitary-authority-ua... *Why the hell Shifnal, Cosford and Albrighton remain in Shropshire and did not find themselves in Telford and Wrekin is a complete mystery to me. They really don't fit, but I guess that's a story for another thread... Having worked one summer in that triangle of roads just over the border east of Albrighton, the real WTH is why that tongue of *Staffordshire* south of Codsall still exists, and why wasn't it transfered to Shropshire yonks ago.
It's a crucial buffer zone to keep us from having to touch the Black Country
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Post by Crimson King on Dec 7, 2022 8:20:16 GMT
Bradford has been kicked of, deadline for submissions on councillor numbers is in May, though there appears to be another deadline sometime in Feb. Possibly to request a change to all ups (which is unlikley)
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Dec 7, 2022 11:19:14 GMT
A review of North Northamptonshire has also kicked off, with a reduction down to 70 councillors. Went to take a look and found that the polling district map they have helpfully uploaded is completely unusable, because the resolution is tiny. The only polling districts you can identify all pertain to small villages which only have a single polling district, whereas in towns it's just a mass of black lines without labels - s3-eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/lgbce/Reviews/East%20Midlands/Northamptonshire/North%20Northamptonshire/Warding/polling%20districts.pdfThis isn't the first time the LGBCE have done something like this and you'd think that if they were going to ask local authorities to provide polling district maps, they should at least ensure they're in a format that makes them any use at all.
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Post by J.G.Harston on Dec 7, 2022 11:56:08 GMT
Bradford has been kicked of, deadline for submissions on councillor numbers is in May, though there appears to be another deadline sometime in Feb. Possibly to request a change to all ups (which is unlikley) A council can change itself to all-ups via council resolution in two successive Full Councils after public consultation.
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Post by Crimson King on Dec 7, 2022 11:59:07 GMT
Bradford has been kicked of, deadline for submissions on councillor numbers is in May, though there appears to be another deadline sometime in Feb. Possibly to request a change to all ups (which is unlikley) A council can change itself to all-ups via council resolution in two successive Full Councils after public consultation. thanks, I didn’t make the briefing, a member who did is convinced that the deadline for submissions on something is feb, despite may being on the presentation. Nothing on the LGBCE website of course (that I can find, still shows 2002)
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Post by casualobserver on Dec 9, 2022 14:52:43 GMT
Can anyone give an example please of a full LGBCE boundary review for an Authority which has been followed by another which came into force eight (or fewer) years after the first one did, please?
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Post by John Chanin on Dec 9, 2022 15:03:12 GMT
Can anyone give an example please of a full LGBCE boundary review for an Authority which has been followed by another which came into force eight (or fewer) years after the first one did, please? Try Warwick District.
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Post by bjornhattan on Dec 9, 2022 15:31:43 GMT
Can anyone give an example please of a full LGBCE boundary review for an Authority which has been followed by another which came into force eight (or fewer) years after the first one did, please? Hartlepool.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 1, 2023 10:26:53 GMT
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Post by The Bishop on Jan 1, 2023 11:45:32 GMT
In this instance, the elected members are correct. This mania for smaller councillor numbers is generally misguided.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jan 1, 2023 12:04:43 GMT
In this instance, the elected members are correct. This mania for smaller councillor numbers is generally misguided. It hasn't exactly led to better local government either in administrative or democratic function terms...
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Post by maxque on Jan 1, 2023 17:04:49 GMT
In this instance, the elected members are correct. This mania for smaller councillor numbers is generally misguided. And yet, your party is the one who started that harmful trend and refuses to back any action to reverse it.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jan 1, 2023 18:32:19 GMT
In this instance, the elected members are correct. This mania for smaller councillor numbers is generally misguided. And yet, your party is the one who started that harmful trend and refuses to back any action to reverse it. You're going to have to explain that one. Reducing the overall number of councillors has been a trend going on for a very long time. Each successive change since the establishment of district councils at the end of the 19th century has resulted in fewer members of local authorities, and most of them have been carried out by Conservative governments.
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