Agenda item

           To report to the Council the work of the Electoral Review Task Group, concerning the preparation of a submission to the Boundary Committee for England on the Warding Arrangements to be made for Cheshire East Council.

Consideration was given to a report relating the work of the Electoral Review Task Group, concerning the preparation of a submission to the Boundary Committee for England on the Warding Arrangements to be made for Cheshire East Council.

The Council was requested to consider and approve the submission prepared by the Task Group, which set out the Authority’s proposals for Warding Arrangements under the Electoral Review of the Cheshire East area and to authorise the Borough Solicitor and Monitoring Officer to make any necessary technical and detailed amendments to finalise the document, to ensure that it complied fully with the wishes of the Council and was delivered by the Boundary Committee’s deadline of 4 August.

A revised appendix 3 – Warding table, an additional appendix 5 – Summary of representations received on the warding arrangements being recommended to Council and a revised list of recommendations were circulated at the meeting.

The motion as set out in the resolution below was moved and seconded.

A requisition for a named vote was submitted and duly supported, in accordance with the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 15.2 of the Constitution.

The motion was put to the meeting with the following results:-

The motion was declared carried, with 49 votes for,18 against and 5 not voting.

RESOLVED

1. That the proposed submission to the Boundary Committee on Warding 

arrangements for Cheshire East Council, as prepared by the Member Task Group, be approved subject to –

a) the inclusion of the revised Appendix 3 as circulated to the Council, and subject to paragraph b) below, the proposed Ward names as shown therein;

b) the following changes being made to the proposed Ward names:

     Poynton Rural Ward being renamed Poynton East and Adlington Ward

    Gawsworth Ward being renamed Henbury and Gawsworth Ward

    Holmes Chapel Ward being renamed Dane Valley Ward;

c) confirmation that the Congleton Rural Ward is to be represented by one Councillor;

d) the area north of the Holly Bush Inn, Crewe Road, Winterley and the roundabout adjoining the Haslington and Wheelock bypasses (containing 82 electors) being transferred from the Sandbach West Ward to the Haslington Ward;

e) the Leighton Rural Parish Ward (which incorporates Leighton Hospital) being transferred from the Bunbury Ward to the Crewe North Ward.

f) part of the Oakhanger Parish Ward being transferred from the Haslington Ward to the Alsager Ward.

g)  the area of Wychwood Park to the south of the A531 containing 161 electors (part of Polling District GF1 being transferred from the Haslington Ward to the Wybunbury Ward.

h)  the Parish of Batherton containing 38 electors  (Polling District 1FC6) being transferred from Wybunbury Ward to the Nantwich South Ward.

2. That the Borough Solicitor and Monitoring Officer be authorised to make the necessary technical and detailed amendments to finalise the submission in view of the foregoing decisions, to ensure the final accuracy of the electoral data and compliance with the Boundary Committee’s statutory criteria, and to meet the Committee’s deadline of 4 August.