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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 21, 2021 11:02:15 GMT
I think splitting the city centre isn't usually a big concern (because all MPs in a city are likely to have an interest in a healthy city centre anyway) but it's even less of an issue in a university city, where the city centre population has a high churn rate and it's fairly unlikely that MPs will get many communications on ward issues.
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Post by gerrardwinstanley on May 24, 2021 13:10:59 GMT
 As some other members have been re-doing Oxfordshire, I thought I'd have another go. In this version, there is also the possibility of changing a few wards between Wantage and Abingdon depending on preference. You could, for instance, swap Wootton for Sutton Courtenay, which may prove more aesthetically pleasing. |
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Post by YL on May 24, 2021 13:53:43 GMT
As some other members have been re-doing Oxfordshire, I thought I'd have another go. In this version, there is also the possibility of changing a few wards between Wantage and Abingdon depending on preference. You could, for instance, swap Wootton for Sutton Courtenay, which may prove more aesthetically pleasing. Sorry, but I think you have a rogue ward from somewhere else in the South East in your Henley seat, because the electorate for that seat is wrong and you seem to have too much electorate for Oxfordshire as a whole. (The excess is 5,204, I think, which corresponds to the electorate of Cranleigh East ward in Surrey.) |
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Post by gerrardwinstanley on May 24, 2021 14:09:16 GMT
As some other members have been re-doing Oxfordshire, I thought I'd have another go. In this version, there is also the possibility of changing a few wards between Wantage and Abingdon depending on preference. You could, for instance, swap Wootton for Sutton Courtenay, which may prove more aesthetically pleasing. Sorry, but I think you have a rogue ward from somewhere else in the South East in your Henley seat, because the electorate for that seat is wrong and you seem to have too much electorate for Oxfordshire as a whole. (The excess is 5,204, I think, which corresponds to the electorate of Cranleigh East ward in Surrey.) Thank you, YL. I must have clicked it by accident! I was rather happy with my plan; back to the drawing board I guess. |
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Post by YL on Jun 7, 2021 23:28:56 GMT
No Silchester. Instead Windsor grabs Egham and there's a Farnham & Bordon constituency crossing the Surrey/Hampshire border.
Oxfordshire has the Witney Thames crossing and is I think identical to the map I posted which does this.
They've gone for the Beaconsfield split in Buckinghamshire, but Chesham & Amersham loses both Chiltern Ridges and Great Missenden and gains Hazlemere as well as Beaconsfield. In the north, Buckingham & Bletchley, and Milton Keynes down to one seat in name, with the other seat being called Newport Pagnell.
Why have they renamed Hove to Hove & Brighton West?
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 7, 2021 23:35:56 GMT
The Reading arrangement leaves much to be desired.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Jun 7, 2021 23:40:49 GMT
Just noticed also that Windsor constituency has nabbed Egham Town and Egham Hythe from over the county boundary with Surrey.
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Post by bjornhattan on Jun 7, 2021 23:43:48 GMT
It looks like the 1997-2010 configuration returns in Oxford, with Carfax (& Jericho) and Holywell returning to Oxford West and Abingdon.
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Post by ricmk on Jun 7, 2021 23:59:06 GMT
No Silchester. Instead Windsor grabs Egham and there's a Farnham & Bordon constituency crossing the Surrey/Hampshire border. Oxfordshire has the Witney Thames crossing and is I think identical to the map I posted which does this. They've gone for the Beaconsfield split in Buckinghamshire, but Chesham & Amersham loses both Chiltern Ridges and Great Missenden and gains Hazlemere as well as Beaconsfield. In the north, Buckingham & Bletchley, and Milton Keynes down to one seat in name, with the other seat being called Newport Pagnell. Why have they renamed Hove to Hove & Brighton West? I can't tell you how much I was hoping to see a constituency named Silchester! Milton Keynes looks OK at first glance subject to naming as you've picked up. Will be what the Tories wanted as it slices the Labour areas across all 3 seats. Chiltern Ridges is substantially suburban Chesham so that will be problematic. I don't know the Surrey-Hampshire border area but sounds like that will be a key focus for debate. Oxfordshire looks sensible enough to me at first glance. |
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Post by BucksDucks on Jun 8, 2021 0:06:45 GMT
They've gone for the Beaconsfield split in Buckinghamshire, but Chesham & Amersham loses both Chiltern Ridges and Great Missenden and gains Hazlemere as well as Beaconsfield. In the north, Buckingham & Bletchley, and Milton Keynes down to one seat in name, with the other seat being called Newport Pagnell. Chiltern Ridges is substantially suburban Chesham so that will be problematic.
It looks like they've sliced the pocket Chesham out of Chiltern Ridges and kept that bit within the Chesham & Amersham constituency.
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Post by YL on Jun 8, 2021 0:11:55 GMT
Chiltern Ridges is substantially suburban Chesham so that will be problematic. It looks like they've sliced the pocket Chesham out of Chiltern Ridges and kept that bit within the Chesham & Amersham constituency.
So they have. Seems an odd ward split given that they could have either kept Hazelmere in Wycombe or moved it to the new seat and left the whole of Chiltern Ridges in C & A. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 0:22:02 GMT
No Silchester. Instead Windsor grabs Egham and there's a Farnham & Bordon constituency crossing the Surrey/Hampshire border. Oxfordshire has the Witney Thames crossing and is I think identical to the map I posted which does this. They've gone for the Beaconsfield split in Buckinghamshire, but Chesham & Amersham loses both Chiltern Ridges and Great Missenden and gains Hazlemere as well as Beaconsfield. In the north, Buckingham & Bletchley, and Milton Keynes down to one seat in name, with the other seat being called Newport Pagnell. Why have they renamed Hove to Hove & Brighton West?
Milton Keynes looks OK at first glance subject to naming as you've picked up. Will be what the Tories wanted as it slices the Labour areas across all 3 seats. Chiltern Ridges is substantially suburban Chesham so that will be problematic. I don't know the Surrey-Hampshire border area but sounds like that will be a key focus for debate. Oxfordshire looks sensible enough to me at first glance. Clearly it should be Calleva Atrebatum! (I've just done two out of three weeks digging in the Roman bathhouse there) |
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Post by ricmk on Jun 8, 2021 0:52:00 GMT
Chiltern Ridges is substantially suburban Chesham so that will be problematic.
It looks like they've sliced the pocket Chesham out of Chiltern Ridges and kept that bit within the Chesham & Amersham constituency.
I've just read the report on this. They don't need to do the ward split for numbers - it's purely for community ties. Serious praise for the Boundary Commission there. This is a mile away from the previous approach where it was only a ward split if all else fails, and I don't think I've ever seen a split where the numbers would have worked without it before. It's a poor ward boundary, combining central Chesham with outlying villages, and they are calling it out. Good for them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 6:15:46 GMT
A unified Worthing seat could be a decent Labour prospect
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Post by evergreenadam on Jun 8, 2021 7:52:07 GMT
Basingstoke seems to be more split up. Was expecting a compact urban core.
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Post by evergreenadam on Jun 8, 2021 7:55:18 GMT
Once again the opportunity to unite the built up area of Maidstone in one seat has not been taken.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2021 8:00:15 GMT
Hove and Brighton West is a bit bland, especially when the Brighton seats have had proper names for years.
Brighton, Seven Dials would be a nice name if the roundabout is included in a seat as it is a logical focal point for Brightonians - just like the Pavilion.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 8, 2021 8:02:30 GMT
Once again the opportunity to unite the built up area of Maidstone in one seat has not been taken. The apparent aversion to doing this is weird and inexplicable |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jun 8, 2021 8:53:08 GMT
I wonder if islington is happy with the arrangements in Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey? Apart from the slightly strange addition of Egham to the Windsor seat it's mostly a plan I can get behind. One minor change I would suggest here is to move Ash into the Farnham seat and put Haslemere, Hindhead and Elstead into the Godalming seat. Ash would be connected to Farnham by quite a narrow strip but it's much better connected in reality. Elsewhere in this region, Maidstone has already been mentioned and needs sorting (and can be easily done) while I'm also a bit unhappy with the boundaries around Worthing and the name of Hove |
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Post by islington on Jun 8, 2021 9:02:59 GMT
I wonder if islington is happy with the arrangements in Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey? Apart from the slightly strange addition of Egham to the Windsor seat it's mostly a plan I can get behind. One minor change I would suggest here is to move Ash into the Farnham seat and put Haslemere, Hindhead and Elstead into the Godalming seat. Ash would be connected to Farnham by quite a narrow strip but it's much better connected in reality. Elsewhere in this region, Maidstone has already been mentioned and needs sorting (and can be easily done) while I'm also a bit unhappy with the boundaries around Worthing and the name of Hove I'm not unhappy. I may not make a submission, but if I do it will be to try to get only one seat crossing the Surrey boundary (with Hants) - I don't like the Surrey-Berks crossing.
I'm pleased they've adopted the idea of treating the three west Berks UAs together for five seats.
Hants generally is not bad (Basingstoke a bit weird though).
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