The County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2487

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Made

11th September 2000

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2) and (3)

Whereas the Local Government Commission for England, acting pursuant to section 15(4) of the Local Government Act 1992(1), has submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated November 1999 on its review of the county of Hertfordshire together with its recommendations:

And whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect, without modification, to those recommendations:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.

(2) This article and articles 2 and 4 shall come into force—

(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;

(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.

(3) Article 3 of this Order shall come into force—

(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election of a parish councillor for the parish of Abbots Langley to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;

(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.

(4) In this Order—

“county” means the county of Hertfordshire;

“existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;

references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to borough, city and district wards in the county(3);

any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(4); and

any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.

Divisions of the county of Hertfordshire

2.—(1) The existing divisions of the county(5) shall be abolished.

(2) The county shall be divided into seventy-seven divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.

(3) The divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to wards, wards and parishes, or wards and parish wards or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each division shall be one.

(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.

Wards of the parish of Abbots Langley

3.—(1) The existing wards of the parish of Abbots Langley(6) shall be abolished.

(2) The parish of Abbots Langley shall be divided into six parish wards which shall bear the names Abbots Langley, Bedmond, Hunton Bridge and Langleybury, Leavesden, Primrose Hill and Tanners Wood; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 7 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.

(3) The number of councillors to be elected for the Leavesden parish ward shall be five, for the Abbots Langley parish ward shall be four, for the Tanners Wood parish ward shall be three and for each of the Bedmond, Hunton Bridge and Langleybury, and Primrose Hill parish wards shall be one.

Revocation

4.  The County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980, and article 5 of the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998 are hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th September 2000

article 2

SCHEDULE NAMES AND AREAS OF DIVISIONS

(1)	(2)
Name of Division	Area of Division
In the borough of Broxbourne
Cheshunt Central	The Cheshunt Central and Cheshunt North wards
Flamstead End and Turnford
Goffs Oak and Bury Green	The Bury Green and Goffs Oak wards
Hoddesdon North	The Hoddesdon North and Rye Park wards
Hoddesdon South
Waltham Cross	The Theobalds and Waltham Cross wards
In the borough of Dacorum
Berkhamsted	The Berkhamsted Castle, Berkhamsted East and Berkhamsted West wards
Bridgewater	The Ashridge, Northchurch and Watling wards
Hemel Hempstead East	The Adeyfield East and Leverstock Green wards
Hemel Hempstead North East	The Grove Hill and Woodhall wards
Hemel Hempstead North West	The Chaulden and Shrubhill, Gadebridge and Warners End wards
Hemel Hempstead St Paul's	The Adeyfield West and Highfield and St Paul’s wards
Hemel Hempstead South East	The Bennetts End, Corner Hall and Nash Mills wards
Hemel Hempstead Town	The Apsley, Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead Central wards
Kings Langley	The Bovingdon, Flaunden and Chipperfield, and Kings Langley wards
Tring	The Aldbury and Wigginton, Tring Central, Tring East and Tring West wards
In the district of East Hertfordshire
All Saints	The Hertford Bengeo and Hertford Kingsmead wards
Bishop’s Stortford East	The Bishop’s Stortford All Saints and Bishop’s Stortford Meads wards
Bishop’s Stortford Rural	The Bishop’s Stortford South, Little Hadham and Much Hadham wards
Bishop’s Stortford West	The Bishop’s Stortford Central and Bishop’s Stortford Silverleys wards
Braughing	The Braughing, Buntingford, Puckeridge, and Mundens and Cottered wards
Hertford Rural	The Datchworth and Aston, Hertford Rural North, Hertford Rural South, Walkern and Watton-at-Stone wards
St Andrew's	The Hertford Castle and Hertford Sele wards
Sawbridgeworth	The Hunsdon, Sawbridgeworth and Stanstead Abbots wards
Ware North	The Thundridge and Standon, Ware St Mary’s and Ware Trinity wards
Ware South	The Great Amwell, Hertford Heath, Ware Chadwell and Ware Christchurch wards
In the borough of Hertsmere
Borehamwood North	The Borehamwood Brookmeadow and Borehamwood Cowley Hill wards
Borehamwood South	The Borehamwood Hillside and Borehamwood Kenilworth wards
Bushey North
Bushey South
Potters Bar East	The Potters Bar Parkfield and Potters Bar Oakmere wards
Potters Bar West and Shenley	The Potters Bar Furzefield and Shenley wards
Watling	The Aldenham East, Aldenham West and Elstree wards
In the district of North Hertfordshire
Hitchin North	The Hitchin Bearton and Hitchin Walsworth wards
Hitchin Rural	The Cadwell, Hitchin Oughton, Hoo and Offa wards
Hitchin South	The Hitchin Highbury and Hitchin Priory wards
Knebworth and Codicote	The Codicote, Hitchwood, Kimpton and Knebworth wards and the parish of Wymondley
Letchworth East and Baldock	The Baldock Town and Letchworth East wards
Letchworth North West	The Letchworth Grange and Letchworth Wilbury wards
Letchworth South	The Letchworth South East and Letchworth South West wards
North Herts Rural	The Arbury, Baldock East, Ermine, and Weston and Sandon wards and the parish of Graveley
Royston	The Royston Heath, Royston Meridian and Royston Palace wards
In the city of St Albans
Harpenden North East	The Harpenden East and Harpenden North wards
Harpenden South West	The Harpenden South and Harpenden West wards
St Albans Central	The Clarence and St Peters wards
St Albans East	The Ashley and Cunningham wards
St Albans North	The Batchwood and Marshalswick South wards
St Albans Rural	The Redbourn and Wheathampstead wards
St Albans South	The Sopwell and Verulam wards
St Stephen's	The St Stephen and Park Street wards
Sandridge	The Marshalswick North and Sandridge wards
The Colneys	The Colney Heath and London Colney wards
In the borough of Stevenage
Bedwell	The Bedwell and Pin Green wards
Broadwater	The Longmeadow and Roebuck wards
Chells	The Chells and Manor wards
Old Stevenage
St Nicholas
Shephall	The Bandley Hill and Shephall wards
In the district of Three Rivers
Abbots Langley
Chorleywood
Croxley	The Croxley Green, Croxley Green North and Croxley Green South wards
Oxhey Park	The Carpenders Park, Moor Park and Eastbury, and Oxhey Hall wards
Rickmansworth	The Maple Cross and Mill End, Penn, Rickmansworth and Rickmansworth West wards
South Oxhey	The Ashridge, Hayling and Northwick wards
In the borough of Watford
Callowland Leggatts	The Callowland and Leggatts wards
Central Oxhey	The Central and Oxhey wards
Meriden Tudor	The Meriden and Tudor wards
Nascot Park	The Nascot and Park wards
Vicarage Holywell	The Vicarage and Holywell wards
Woodside Stanborough	The Woodside and Stanborough wards
In the district of Welwyn Hatfield
Haldens
Handside and Peartree	The Handside and Peartree wards
Hatfield North	The Hatfield Central and Hatfield North wards and the parish ward of East of Hatfield parish
Hatfield Rural	The Brookmans Park and Little Heath, and Northaw wards and the parish of Essendon
Hatfield South	The Hatfield South, Hatfield West and Welham Green wards
Welwyn
Welwyn Garden City South	The Hollybush and Howlands wards

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect, without modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the county of Hertfordshire. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 3rd May 2001.

Article 2 abolishes the existing divisions of the county and provides for the creation of 77 new divisions. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of the new divisions. One councillor is to be elected for each division.

Articles 3 make electoral changes in the parish of Abbots Langley. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 1st May 2003.

Article 4 revokes the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 and article 5 of the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998.

The areas of the new electoral divisions and of the new parish wards of the parish of Abbotts Langley are demarcated on the map described in article 1(4). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Hertfordshire County Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.

(1)

1992 c. 19.

(2)

Section 17 is amended by section 39(4) and (5) of the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).

(3)

See the Borough of Broxbourne (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2551), the Borough of Dacorum (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2552), the District of East Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2553), the Borough of Hertsmere (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2554), the District of North Hertfordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2555), the City of St Albans (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2558), the Borough of Stevenage (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2557), the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2556), the Borough of Watford (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2559) and the District of Welwyn Hatfield (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2560).

(4)

S.I. 1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

(5)

See the County of Hertfordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/1769).

(6)

See the District of Three Rivers (Parishes and Electoral Changes) Order 1998.