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As detailed in the recommendations.

The Cabinet Member for Corporate Management introduced the report on the Council’s community review proposals for the purposes of consultation.

The County Council had not completed a community review of all electoral areas since coming into being.  There had only been limited reviews affecting a small number of Town & Community Councils.

The first formal stage of the community review was to seek and obtain proposals from Town & Community Councils and other interested parties and a series of consultation meeting were held.

Following representations by a member of Leeswood Community Council, all Town & Community Councils were informed that the objective of the seventh and eighth guiding principles was to have approximately the same ratios of electors to Councillors across the different wards that a town or community may be divided into.  County Council, at its meeting on 23 October 2013, endorsed the clarification of the seventh and eighth guiding principles.

The community review draft proposals were appended to the report as recommended by County Council.  Once Cabinet had agreed the Council’s draft proposals it was intended that there would be a nine week consultation period similar to the initial consultation in May.  The response to the consultation period would be analysed and reports submitted to Council and Cabinet to determine what changes should be made to the proposals in light of the consultation responses received.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the seventh & eighth guiding principles be clarified as indicated in paragraph 3.02 of the report;

(b)       That the proposals outlined in Appendix A to the report be sent out for consultation; and

(c)        That the second formal consultation period be as identified in paragraph 3.06 above.