Local Boundary Review

Consultation is now open!

Have Your Say Online by visiting www.lgbce.org.uk.

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The Council has started work on a review with the Local Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE). This review will initially look at the number of Borough Councillors. We currently have 50 and are considering a reduction of around 10.

The Commission will run a three stage consultation process completing around May 2013, when a new Review Polling Districts, Polling Places and Polling Stations will take place.

There will be a six week consultation on the number of Councillors, run by the Commission, starting in mid-March 2012, to which anyone can submit a representation. The Commission will then decide the number of Councillors we need.

The last two stages look at how the boundaries are arranged to account for this new number, usually called warding. The first stage of warding consultation is due to start near the end of June 2012.

More Information

Details of how a review works can be found in the Commission's Technical Guidance.

You can view the Local Government Boundary Commission website for full details.

Background Information

Council Size

The main issues considered are discussed in the key lines of enquiry document Council Size KLOE [72kb]

You may be interested in the Local Government Associations National Census of Local Authority Councillors 2010.

The Commision have identified best practise examples of Council Size submissions from their website from Somerset County Council and Northampton Borough Council.

Warding Arrangements

Web based maps are being prepared to help anyone wanting to get involved in the review, a link to these will be here once it is available.

Statistics on the number of Registered Electors living in each street of each polling district Electors by Street Statistics [149kb]

Previous Review

The last review of this type took place in 2000, when the Council reduced from 57 Councillors to 50. While it is not directly relevant to this review, you can find information and maps on the Commissions Gedling review 2000 webpage.