Draft Proposals
Bracknell ForestBracknell – Move Garth North from Warfield into Bracknell, without change in councillor numbers. Redraw ward boundaries. Add one councillor to Town Centre and Parks ward, increasing total councillors to 28.
Crowthorne – Create two wards (West and East) of five councillors each. Move Cricket Ground from Sandhurst to Crowthorne. Move south east boundary to add a property to the council area.
Sandhurst – four wards of six councillors each.
Warfield – swap a few houses from Warfield to Winkfield and vice versa. Merge East and Park wards. Increase councillors to 15, with wards of 6, 5, 2 and 2.
Winkfield – merge North Ascot with Ascot Priory wards, six councillors. Four wards of 6, 5, 5, and 2.
Next stage: Final, December.
Carlisle – No change since last post.
Cherwell
Ambrosden/Blackthorn – move boundary so that all of Blackthorn Meadows development lie in Ambrosden.
Banbury/Bodicote – Realign boundary – move a few sets of properties from Bodicote to Banbury.
Begbroke – Increase from six to seven councillors.
Bicester – move the Wretchwick Way development into Bicester from Ambrosden.
Chesterton – increase from seven to nine councillors.
Chesterton/Bucknell/Bicester – Small land swap between Chesterton and Bucknell to realign boundary to road. Move boundary between Bicester and Bucknell to move whole of a site with planning application to Bicester.
Horley/Hanwell/Wroxton - Horley gains some land from both of the others.
Somerton – increase from five to six councillors.
Cornwall – No change since last post.
Dorset – No change since peterl’s update – but the final recommendations are due in the next few days.
East Suffolk
Benhall/Saxmundham – move boundary to ensure that all of the Saxmundham Garden Neighbourhood development is in Saxmundham parish.
Charsfield – Move the whole of Charsfield parish from Carlford & Fynn Valley district ward to Framlingham. Surely LGBCE aren’t going to agree to a whole parish just moving ward because it wants to?
Felixestowe – create new wards of Central (3), East (3), Port (5), South (2), Walton (3). These wards would be created in 2027 by the LGBCE anyway, so this is to move forward the proposals.
Framlingham – increase to 11 councillors from 13. There is a slightly optimistic justification that they hope by increasing the number of seats they might get more candidates and hence contested elections?!
Great Bealings – reduce from 8 to 7 councillors. Framlingham’s argument doesn’t apply here, apparently.
Great Glemham – reduction from 12 to 9 councillors. Would go from 14.6 electors/councillor to 19.4.
Kesgrave – reduction from 16 to 14 seats – on the other hand would have ratios of > 700.
Lowestoft – Split the LGBCE proposed 2027 ward of Harbour into two parish wards.
Martlesham/Waldringfield – Move one house from Martlesham to Waldringfield because they would like to.
Martlesham/Woodbridge – Move Martlesham North ward to Woodbridge (it forms part of woodbridge town).
Melton/Woodbridge – Move boundary so that all of Melton Hill development is in Woodbridge.
Purdis Farm – reduction from 7 to 6.
Redisham/Shadingfield – Moves a few properties from Shadingfield to Redisham.
Shadingfield, Sotterley, Willingham & Ellough GPC – reduce seats for Sotterley from 4 to 2.
Wickham Market/Pettistree – Move area that will contain Wickham Gate development into Wickham Market.
Hertsmere
Aldenham – Add EE and EF to Aldenham West. EA to form a new parish of Meriden, without a council.
Ridge/South Mimms – Merge the parishes to form a single parish with two wards – South Mimms (4) and Ridge (1).
Shenley – Create two wards – North (6) and South (3).
Next stage: Final, Sept.
Mid Sussex
Burgess Hill – Extend boundary north to include the wards of Northern Arc East and West from Ansty & Staplefield. Rearrange various existing wards, to leave 19 councillors across 10 wards (3x3, 3x2, 4x1).
East Grinstead – Merge Ashplats South with Herontye, merge Sackville with Baldwins. Reduce to 16 councillors across seven warsd (3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1).
Hurstpierpoint & Sayers Common – proposal to split the parish has been dropped.
Worth – Proposal to split the parish has been dropped, but will be renamed to Crawley Down & Copthorne.
Middlesbrough – No change since last post. Draft in August.
Northumberland
Acomb – Increase number of councillors from seven to nine.
Next stage: Final, November.
Somerset West & Taunton – no change since above. Next stage: final, August/September.
South Gloucestershire – Website is pretty unclear, but I think the current proposals are:
Bradley Stoke – Split the existing six and seven member wards in half, leaving one ward of 4, three of 3 and one of 2.
Charlton Hayes – create a new parish of Charlton Hayes by splitting off from Patchway. New Parish would have nine councillors.
Kingswood – Create a new parish from the currently unparished area, consisting of six wards – New Cheltenham (1), Kings Chase North (3), Kings Chase South (3), Lower Soundwell (3), Warmley Hill (2), Woodstock (3).
Staple Hill & Mangotsfield – create a new parish from the currently unparished area, with four wards – Mangotsfield (5), Page (2), Pendennis (2) and Soundwell (3).
Stoke Park & Cheswick – create a new parish of Stoke Park & Cheswick by breaking off from Stoke Gifford. It would have three wards, Cheswick (4), Stoke Park (4) and University (1).
Thornbury – adjust ward boundaries, and abolish Central ward, leaving four wards of 4.
South Kesteven – agreement in principle that Grantham PC should be established, but more work to be done on the actual boundaries. This delay means the new council won’t be ready for the 2023 elections, but will instead have its first election in 2024.
South Oxfordshire – Several of the initial proposals have been dropped. Now:
Cuddesdon & Denton – remove the wards
Didcot – rebalance councillors per ward
Henley-on-Thames/Bix & Assendon – Move one area from B&A to HoT.
Thame – amend the ward boundary
St Albans
Colney Heath – adjust parish boundaries to be coterminous with the Colney Heath district ward. This would leave the remaining areas (more than half the current parish’s electors!) unparished.
Sandbridge – Minor adjustment to include three properties currently unparished are included in the parish (the rest of their road is already within the parish). Divide the Marshalwick East & Jersey Farm ward into two wards (with the obvious names, and five and three councillors respectively).
London Colney – Adjust boundaries to align with ward boundaries, so include a few currently unparished properties to the north. Divide parish into two wards (North and South), with three and four councillors each.
Harpenden/Wheathampstead – Move 173 electors currently in Wheathampstead to Harpenden.
St Michael/St Stephen – Align boundary to district ward boundary, which moves 89 electors from St Michael to St Stephen.
Next Stage: Final, Nov/Dec.
Teignbridge
Coffinswell – Increase from five to six councillors
Ideford – increase from seven to eight councillors.
Ogwell – transfer several roads that really form part of Ogwell town from Newton Abbot to Ogwell.
Next stage: Final, July
Test Valley – No change since last post. Final recommendations in September.
Vale of White Horse – All the initial proposals that involved actual boundary changes have been dropped, so all that remains is to unward Grove, change the name of North Hinksey to North Hinksey & Botley Community Council, change Wootton to Wootton & Boars Hill, and to increase the number of councillors in Uffington from six to seven.
Wakefield – No change since last post
Waverley
Alfold – increase from 7 to 9 councillors
Bramley – move southwest part of Bramley to Hascombe. Move an area from Wonersh to Bramley. Move Smithbrook area from Bramley to Cranleigh.
Chiddingfold – Change boundary to move an orphan house into Chiddingfold from Hambledon. Move small area from Dunsfold to Chiddingfold. Transfer new residential development from Chiddingfold to Witley. Move a couple of bungalows from Chiddingfold to Haslemere. Move Lythe Hill from Chiddingfold to Haslemere.
Cranleigh – Reduce number of wards from five (5, 4, 1, 1, 1) to two (7, 5), which would align with the two Cranleigh borough wards.
Farnham – Reduce number of councillors from 18 to 16, and reduce the current arrangement of 11 wards to 8 wards of 2 each, coterminous with the borough wards.
Godalming – Reduce number of councillors from 20 to 18 and reduce(-ish) the number of wards from seven to five (coterminous with the new borough wards). There are currently five wards, but will be eight once the lgbce review is concluded. A proposal for Godalming to absorb Busbridge parish is currently not recommended, but they request further feedback.
Witley – Move three electors from Witley to Peper Harow Parish Meeting. Swap some territory with Hasmlere. Change name to Witley & Milford.
Next Stage: Final Recommendations, July/August.
West Suffolk - no change since last post. Final proposals, September.
Wiltshire – “Additional Draft Recommendations”. The recommendations relating to Charlton, Calne Town and Compton Basset and Hilmarton have been approved as was. Below are the differences from the previous draft proposals:
Bremhill – change to slightly reduce area transferred from Calne.
Cherhill – Unify hamlet of Blackland in Cherhill instead of splitting it, and together with other small rural communities form a separate ward of two councillors instead of being part of Lower Compton, which becomes a three member ward, and the council as a whole with four wards with twelve councillors.
Heddington - leave all of Bowood Estate in Calne Without instead of a partial transfer to Heddington and rename some of the wards.
Calne Without (Derry Hill & Studley) – split the rump parish into wards (two single member and one nine member).
Malmesbury – postpone consideration of additional draft proposals.
