Crewe Community Governance Review
Meeting: 11/10/2012 - Council (Item 51)
To consider the recommendation of the Constitution Committee.
Additional documents:
- 05-Crewe CGR - report (final), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix A(1) (Stage 3 responses), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix A(2) (Stage 3 response), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix A(3) (Leighton Ballot result), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix B(1) (draft order) (revised), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix B(2) (map) (revised), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix C (budget) (revised), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix D (CGR Sub minutes of 18th July 2012), item 51
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- 05-Crewe CGR - Appendix E (CGR Sub minutes of 4th September 2012), item 51
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Minutes:
(Cllr Hogben had declared a disclosable pecuniary interest and left the meeting during consideration of this item).
Consideration was given to the recommendation from Constitution Committee regarding the final outcome of the Crewe Community Governance Review.
The Constitution Committee had recommended :-
That
(1) Council be recommended to approve that
(a) the interests of effective and convenient local government and community identities in the area would be served by the creation of a new parish with a Parish Council for the unparished area of Crewe and that Parish Council be advised to consider its designation as a Town Council;
(b) having taken into account the representations received, the Parish should be divided into 6 wards for the purposes of election to the Parish Council, such wards to be coterminous with the existing Borough wards, with each ward having the number of parish councillors as follows:
|
St Barnabas |
2 |
|
Crewe Central |
2 |
|
Crewe North |
2 |
|
Crewe South |
3 |
|
Crewe East |
4 |
|
Crewe West |
3 |
|
TOTAL |
16 |
(c) having considered the results of the ballot of electors, the unparished part of the Borough ward of Leighton be included within the Leighton Urban ward of Leighton Parish;
(d) elections to the Crewe Parish Council be held on 4th April 2013;
(e) the public conveniences in Lyceum Square, Crewe be transferred to the new parish council with effect from 1st April 2013 but Cheshire East Council continue to manage the facilities for the first three months; a sum of £30,000 to be included in the budget for the first year of the parish council to cover the cost of managing these assets;
(f) the Council allotments within the unparished part of Crewe be transferred to the new parish council with effect from 1st April 2013 on the basis of a 150 year lease; a sum of £30,000 to be included in the budget for the first year of the parish council to cover the cost of managing these assets;
(g) the draft budget be approved, as attached to the report, subject to the addition of a contingency fund of £100,000, the budget totalling £442,000;
(h) the draft re-organisation order be updated as required and submitted to Council on 13th December for approval, following a mini-review of the electoral arrangements for the Parish of Leighton arising from the proposed boundary change to the Leighton Urban Ward;
(2) the terms of reference of the Community Governance Review Sub-Committee be extended to enable the Sub-Committee to take all necessary actions in preparation for the new Crewe parish council.
The Chairman of the Constitution Committee, Councillor A Martin, moved the above recommendations, subject to a correction to recommendation 1(b), so that the reference to the St Barnabas ward reads ‘Crewe St Barnabas’ and the description of the Crewe South ward includes: ‘except for Gresty Brook (Polling District1GM2), which is already parished and falls within the Parish of Shavington-cum-Gresty’
AMENDMENT
The following amendment was moved and seconded and carried : ... view the full minutes text for item 51