Urgent Item of Business (Community Governance Review)
For Council to deal with any urgent Part 1 items, which in the opinion of the Mayor, should be dealt with at this meeting.
Minutes:
The Mayor, having agreed to take this item as urgent business, invited Councillor Kolker, who had chaired the Governance and Constitution Committee meeting earlier in the day, to speak to the item.
The Committee had considered the receipt of a petition calling for a Community Governance Review in respect of the unparished area of Handforth.
The petition, received on 21st September 2009, had been signed by at least 10% of local government electors for the area and was, therefore, judged to be valid. The petition had identified recommendations arising from a review.
The Committee considered that as the area of Handforth formed part of the wider unparished area of Wilmslow (comprising the former electoral wards of Dean Row, Fulshaw, Handforth, Hough, Lacey Green and Morley and Styal), it would be expedient to extend the remit of the Community Governance Review to encompass the whole of the unparished area as specified and agreed to recommend this to Council.
The Committee had RESOLVED –
(a) That for the purposes of Secrtion 80 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007, the petition from residents of Handforth be confirmed as valid and this be confirmed to the petition organisers;
(b) A Community Governance Review be carried out in respect of the whole of the electoral Ward of Handforth, as known in 2007, to be completed by 20th September 2010;
(c) The receipt of a petition from residents of Wilmslow be noted and Council be recommended to resolve that the Community Governance Review be extended to cover the whole of the unparished area of Wilmslow (ie the former electoral Wards of Dean Row, Fulshaw, Handforth, Hough, Lacey Green and Morley and Styal); and
(d) A Sub-Committee of six Members be established (4 Conservative: 1 Lib-Dem: 1 Labour) to oversee the Review and to make appropriate recommendations to the Governance and Constitution Committee.
The only issue before Council was Item (c) of the resolution.
RESOLVED
That the Community Governance Review be extended to cover the whole of the unparished area of Wilmslow (ie the former electoral wards of Dean Row, Fulshaw, Handforth, Hough, Lacey Green and Morley and Styal).