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Agenda item

Community Governance Review (00-14-10)

To consider a report enabling Members to reach a decision in respect of any recommended proposals for consideration for the 2nd Consultation Stage. 

 

Minutes:

The Committee had before it a *report of the Returning Officer/Director of Business Improvement and Operations requesting members to reach a decision in respect of any recommended proposals for consideration for the second stage consultation.

 

The Consultant outlined the contents of the report stating that notification of the first consultation had been widespread and that all parishes and local residents had been invited to submit representations.  The Committee had considered all of the representations informally and the outcome of those meetings was presented in appendices 1a and 1b of the report.  He also intended to address the number of Councillors for each parish council at this meeting.

 

Members then walked through the appendices and agreed formally their initial considerations with further discussion taking place on the following:

 

·         Submission 33 -  Hittisleigh/Cheriton Bishop, the movement of some properties to Hittisleigh

·         Halberton/Willand and Uffculme – the issues surrounding land east of the M5 and its association with Uffculme and Willand rather than Halberton; whether Lucombe Park had a closer association with Uffculme and that Halberton Parish were in agreement that this parcel of land should move to Uffculme parish.  Whether the Mid Devon Business Park should be placed within Willand parish, where Bidwell Avenue should sit as well as Hitchcocks and Langlands Business Parks.  It was felt that the views of the residents should be considered as they had been with all the other submissions.  It was agreed that several options were available and that those options should form part of the second consultation process.

 

 

RECOMMENDED to COUNCIL that a public consultation take place on the review of parish boundaries as proposed in appendices 1a and 1b of the report subject to:

 

a)            The detail of submission 33 Mid Devon District Council CGR First Stage Consultation submitted by Hittisleigh Parish Council be agreed.

 

b)            The following options for Halberton, Willand and Uffculme form part of the stage 2 public consultation:

 

Option 1 – Lucombe Park move from Halberton to Uffculme and the Mid Devon Business Park move from Halberton to Willand.

 

Option 2 – Option 1 (as set out above) together with the area north east of Bridwell Avenue be moved from Halberton to Uffculme.

 

Option 3 – Options 1 and 2 (as set out above) together with Hitchcocks and Langlands Business Parks moving from Halberton to Uffculme.

 

(Proposed by the Chairman and seconded by Cllr S J Clist)

 

Note: Cllrs R F Radford and B G J Warren requested that their vote against (b) be recorded

 

 

Further RECOMMENDED to COUNCIL that: the number of Parish Councillors remain as set out in appendix 2 subject to the following amendments which would form part of the stage 2 public consultation:

 

i)             Bradninch (Rural Ward) be reduced to 1 from 2

ii)            Bradninch (Town Ward) be increased from 10 to 11

iii)           Burlescombe be reduced from 9 to 7

iv)           Cheriton Fitzpaine be reduced from 9 to 8

v)            Colebrooke be reduced from 9 to 7

vi)           Copplestone be increased from 7 to 9

vii)          Crediton Hamlets (Yeoford Ward) be increased from 5 to 7

viii)        Silverton (North Ward) be reduced from 2 to 1

ix)           Silverton (Village Ward) be increased from 9 to 10

x)            Willand be increased from 11 to 12

 

(Proposed by Cllr R B Evans and seconded by Cllr D R Coren)

 

Note:  *Report previously circulated copy attached to minutes.

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