Agenda and minutes

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No interests were declared.

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To approve the minutes of the meeting held on 21^st October 2010.

RESOLVED

That the minutes of the meeting held on 21^st October 2010 be approved as a correct record.

To consider a report which summarises the conclusions reached by the Sub-Committee following the second stage of public consultation, makes recommendations for consideration by the Constitution Committee on 15^th December and by Council on 16^th December, and includes the proposed Order which would be required to bring these recommendations into effect.

The Sub-Committee considered a report summarising the conclusions reached by the Sub-Committee following the second stage of public consultation.

The Sub-Committee had before it the report considered on 27^th September, detailing the outcomes of the second stage of public consultations, based on the Council’s draft recommendations for the Wilmslow Community Governance Review. The issues had been further considered by the Sub-Committee on 21^st October, together with the detail of the draft Order which would be required, should the Council finally determine to implement its previous recommendations.

The Sub-Committee had given detailed consideration to the outcomes of the second stage of public consultations, which had raised a number of issues which needed to be addressed and provided for in the recommendations to Council.

The Sub-Committee also considered the proposed final draft of the “Cheshire East Borough Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order”. It was based on the Council’s previous draft recommendations, but also dealt with the implications of the Boundary Commission’s Review of the Cheshire East Electoral Arrangements; the need to make provision for the 2011/12 budget requirement; Options for Transitional Arrangements before the elections to new Parish Councils; and other more detailed references in the draft.

The Boundary Commission’s final recommendations for electoral arrangements for the whole of Cheshire East had been laid in Parliament on 11^th October in the form of a draft Order. The Order not having been ‘prayed against’ within the 40 day period allocated, the Boundary Commission had now confirmed that it would issue the final Order early in the new year. Accordingly it was now clear that the borough ward boundaries in the Wilmslow area would be those as determined by the Commission.

The Sub-Committee has previously considered a pattern of warding for new parishes in Wilmslow and Handforth which would broadly conform to the new borough wards, in that, with one exception, none of the proposed parish wards was split by a borough ward boundary. The exception occurred in the case of the Wilmslow parish ward of Dean Row, part of which would be in the borough ward of Handforth. The Sub-Committee had previously been of the view that the proposed parish ward boundaries for Dean Row better reflected in particular the community identities of the area. Members were asked to give further consideration to this issue and make appropriate recommendations to the Council.

The proposed parish ward boundaries and ward names were shown in detail on a map circulated with the report which would form part of the Order. As agreed at the previous meeting, the name for the Hough parish ward had been changed to Wilmslow East, and the number of Styal Parish Councillors had been set at 7. The warding arrangements were prescribed in Article 8 of the Order, but no longer made reference to polling district numbers as these could be subject to review across the whole Borough.

The Sub-Committee had previously considered the need to set an appropriate budget for each of the new parish councils  ...  view the full minutes text for item 28.

To be agreed in consultation with members of the Sub-Committee.