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East Sussex Electoral Boundary review 2015

 

 

The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) is an independent body whose main activity is to carry out electoral reviews of principal local authorities in England. The Commission is carrying out a review of East Sussex County Council in a coordinated process alongside simultaneous reviews of all five districts and boroughs within East Sussex.

 

The Commission will ultimately make recommendations to Parliament on the electoral arrangements of the six local authorities in East Sussex, namely: the total number of councillors elected to each authority; the boundaries of all wards (for district and borough councils) and divisions (for the county council); the number of councillors elected to each ward and division; and the name of each ward and division.

 

The new electoral arrangements will come into effect from the next County Council elections in May 2017; Hastings Borough Council elections in 2018 and other district and borough council elections in 2019.

 

Decision type: Key

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Divisions affected: (All Divisions);

Decision due: 3 Jun 2016 by Governance Committee

Decision due: 3 Jun 2016 by Governance Committee

Consultation process

On 22 September 2015 the Boundary Commission announced the number of councillors to be elected to each council in East Sussex in future. East Sussex County Council is to have 50 county councillors (one more than the current arrangements). The district and borough councils will all retain their existing number of councillors apart from Wealden where the Commission has agreed to reduce the number of councillors by ten (from 55 to 45) as proposed by that council.

 

The Commission is now reviewing the ward boundaries of all five district councils across East Sussex and the electoral divisions of the county council. It is seeking information from people and groups across East Sussex to help it to produce a new pattern of wards and electoral divisions to accommodate councillors in every part of the county.

 

The Commission will consider all evidence submitted to them during this phase of the review, whoever it is from, and whether it applies to the whole of East Sussex or just a small part of the county. All submissions received will be published on the LGBCE website. The deadline for submitting views is 30 November 2015. Residents will still have a further chance to have their say after LGBCE publishes draft recommendations for the whole county in March 2016.

 

All the available information on the review and interactive maps of the existing divisions and wards can be found at www.consultation.lgbce.org.uk  and www.lgbce.org.uk .

 

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