Issue - meetings

Taking into account representations received from the Stage 2 consultation, the Sub-Committee is requested to make a recommendation to the Constitution Committee for the final outcome of the Review. The Constitution Committee will then report its recommendation to a future meeting of the Council.

The report considered by the Sub-Committee at its last meeting is attached to aid the Sub-Committee in its deliberations.

The Council will be required to approve a Re-organisation Order to give effect to the final outcome of the review, in the event that new parish councils are created. Progress on the drafting of the Order will be reported at the meeting.

The Sub-Committee would be requested at its next meeting to make a recommendation to the Constitution Committee for the final outcome of the Community Governance Review, taking into account the representations received from the Stage 2 consultation. The Constitution Committee would then be asked to make a recommendation to Council.

The report considered by the Sub-Committee at its last meeting had been circulated with the agenda to aid the Sub-Committee in its deliberations.

The Council would be required to approve a Re-organisation Order to give effect to the final outcome of the review, in the event that new parish councils were created. The first draft of the Re-organisation Order was circulated at the meeting. Mike Flynn advised that both sets of warding arrangements for Wilmslow had been included to take account of the outcome of the Boundary Commission’s review of wards in Cheshire East.

Members agreed that an amendment be made to the draft Order to the effect that if new ward boundaries were introduced, the ward currently referred to as Hough would be renamed as Wilmslow East. Members also agreed that the Order should contain both polling district references and a map.

The draft Order included, at paragraph 11, a transitional provision whereby the six Borough ward Members for the area would represent the three parishes until the parish councils were elected in April 2011. An alternative would be for the Sub-Committee to assume this role. Members agreed to consider the options further at the next meeting.

Mike Flynn also advised the Sub-Committee on progress with the Boundary Commission’s review of ward boundaries in Cheshire East, and the implications for the community governance review. The 40 day period for the Order to be objected to would expire on Saturday 20^th November. If there were no objections to the draft Order, the Statutory Instrument would be made early in the new year. The Sub-Committee and Constitution Committee would be asked to formulate final recommendations on warding in Wilmslow and Handforth and propose the Community Governance Review Order for adoption by Council at its meeting on 16^th December. If there were objections to the Order, then a debate might have to be held in Parliament which could delay the completion of the Community Governance Review, the time allowed for which would expire in February. The Officers were considering the implications in detail and would advise further at the next meeting.

RESOLVED

That

(1)   the draft Order be approved subject to the changes agreed and an updated version, including the agreed precepting arrangements, be submitted to the next meeting; and

(2)   the implications of the Boundary Commission review be noted and a further report be submitted to the next meeting.