Issue - meetings

To consider a request from Styal Parish Council that the Borough Ward name of Wilmslow Lacey Green be amended to include Styal in the title.     

The Council had received a request from Styal Parish Council dated 26^th February 2013, requesting that the Borough Ward name of Wilmslow Lacey Green be amended to include Styal in the title.     

A decision to change the ward name could set a precedent which would make other requests received difficult to decline. This would require additional workload and further use of Council Resources, given that Wilmslow Lacey Green was only one of fifty-two wards in Cheshire East. There would be an administrative cost to carry out consultation with the electors in the ward and to arrange a specially convened Council meeting. This cost, for which there was no budget, could be multiplied if other Parish Councils sought similar changes. There was no legal mechanism by which the Council’s costs could be recovered from the parish council, or from others who might have similar requests.

RESOLVED

That the request from Styal Parish Council be noted but no further action be taken.