Issue - decisions

County Electoral Review - Verbal Report

19/01/2015 - County Electoral Review

The Civic Affairs Committee AGREED to submit a response to the Local Government Boundary Commission for England on the boundary review of Cambridgeshire, highlighting the following issues:

 

(a)        The Committee strongly disagreed with the housing permissions and allocations included in the elections forecasts for South Cambridgeshire.

 

(b)        The Committee expressed its disappointment at the inaccurate record of parish electorates by individual parish, particularly regarding Parish Council size.

 

(c)        The Committee asked that the principle of protecting the identities of local communities was considered very carefully as part of the boundary review.