The Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 3301

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Made

15th December 2000

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

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 May 2000 on its review of the borough(2) of Rushcliffe together with its recommendations:

And whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect to those recommendations:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(3) 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 Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.

(2) This Order shall come into force—

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

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

(3) In this Order—

“borough” means the borough of Rushcliffe;

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

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 Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(4).

Wards of the borough of Rushcliffe

2.—(1) The existing wards of the borough(5) shall be abolished.

(2) The borough shall be divided into twenty-eight wards, which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.

(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes or parish wards or, where an area is not so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of that Schedule.

(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 Bingham

3.  The parish of Bingham shall be divided into two parish wards which shall bear the names Bingham East and Bingham West; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the borough ward bearing the same name; and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be seven.

Wards of the parish of Radcliffe-on-Trent

4.—(1) The existing wards of the parish of Radcliffe-on-Trent shall be abolished.

(2) The parish shall be divided into two parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 2; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the borough ward specified in respect of the parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule; and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be nine.

Numbers of parish councillors

5.—(1) The number of councillors to be elected for the parish of Gamston shall be seven.

(2) The number of councillors to be elected for the parish of Holme Pierrepoint shall be three.

Revocation

6.  The Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975 is hereby revoked.

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

Beverley Hughes

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

15th December 2000

article 2

SCHEDULE 1 NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of Ward	Area of Ward	Number of Councillors
Abbey		2
Bingham East		2
Bingham West		2
Compton Acres		2
Cotgrave	The parish of Cotgrave	3
Cranmer	The parishes of Aslockton, Scarrington and Whatton	1
Edwalton Village		2
Gamston		2
Gotham	The parishes of Barton in Fabis, Gotham and Thrumpton	1
Keyworth North	The North parish ward of Keyworth parish	1
Keyworth South	The South parish ward of Keyworth parish	3
Lady Bay		2
Leake	The parishes of East Leake and West Leake	3
Lutterell		2
Manvers		2
Melton		2
Musters		2
Nevile	The parishes of Hickling, Kinoulton, Owthorpe and Upper Broughton	1
Oak	The parishes of Car Colston, East Bridgford, Kneeton and Screveton	1
Ruddington	The parish of Ruddington	3
Soar Valley	The parishes of Kingston on Soar, Ratcliffe on Soar and Sutton Bonington	1
Stanford	The parishes of Bradmore, Bunny, Costock, Normanton on Soar, Rempstone and Stanford on Soar	1
Thoroton	The parishes of Elton, Flintham, Flawborough, Granby Hawksworth, Orston, Shelton, Sibthorpe and Thoroton	1
Tollerton	The parishes of Clipston and Tollerton	1
Trent		2
Trent Bridge		2
Wiverton	The parishes of Colston Bassett, Cropwell Bishop, Cropwell Butler, Langar cum Barnstone, Tithby and Wiverton Hall	2
Wolds	The parishes of Normanton on the Wolds, Plumtree, Stanton on the Wolds, Thorpe in the Glebe, Willoughby on the Wolds, Wysall and Widmerpool	1

article 4

SCHEDULE 2 WARDS OF THE PARISH OF RADCLIFFE-ON-TRENTNAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS

(1)	(2)
Name of Ward	Area of Ward
Manvers	So much of the borough ward of Manvers as comprises part of the parish of Radcliffe-on-Trent
Trent	So much of the borough ward of Trent as comprises part of the parish of Radcliffe-on-Trent

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Rushcliffe. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 1st May 2003.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of twenty-eight new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Articles 3 and 4 make electoral changes in the parishes of Bingham and Radcliffe-on-Trent.

Article 5 increases the number of councillors to be elected for Gamston parish from 3 to 7 and decreases the number of councillors to be elected for Holme Pierrepoint parish from 7 to 3.

Article 6 revokes the Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975.

The areas of the new borough wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the Rushcliffe Borough 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)

The non-metropolitan district of Rushcliffe has the status of a borough.

(3)

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

(4)

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

(5)

See the Borough of Rushcliffe (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975 (S.I. 1975/1669).