The County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 2489

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Made

11th September 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 November 1999 on its review of the county of Northamptonshire 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(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 Northamptonshire (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 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;

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

(3) In this Order—

“county” means the county of Northamptonshire;

“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 district and borough wards in the county(3); 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 County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994(4).

Divisions of the county of Northamptonshire

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

(2) The county shall be divided into seventy-three 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, or wards and parishes 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.

Revocation

3.  The County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 is 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 ELECTORAL DIVISIONS

(1)	(2)
Name of Division	Area of Division
	In the borough of Corby
Central
Corby Rural	The East, Rural East, Rural North and Rural West wards
Danesholme	The Danesholme and Hillside wards
Kingswood	The Kingswood and West wards
Lloyds
Shire Lodge	The Lodge Park and Shire Lodge wards
	In the district of Daventry
Braunston
Brixworth	The Brixworth, Clipston and Spratton wards
Daventry East
Daventry West
Long Buckby	The Brampton, Flore and Long Buckby wards
Moulton	The Boughton and Pitsford, Moulton and Walgrave wards
Uplands	The Crick, Ravensthorpe, Welford, West Haddon and Guilsborough, and Yelvertoft wards
Woodford and Weedon	The Byfield, Weedon and Woodford wards
	In the district of East Northamptonshire
Higham Ferrers	The Higham Ferrers and Stanwick wards
Irthlingborough	The Irthlingborough and Woodford wards
Oundle	The Dryden, Lyveden and Oundle wards
Prebendal	The Fineshade, Lower Nene, King’s Forest and Prebendal wards
Raunds	The Raunds Saxon and Raunds Windmill wards
Rushden East
Rushden South
Rushden West
Thrapston	The Barnwell, Ringstead and Thrapston wards
	In the borough of Kettering
Brambleside	The Brambleside and All Saints wards
Burton
Desborough	The Loatland and St Giles wards
Grange	The Avondale and Warkton wards
Ise	The Millbrook and Spinney wards
Kettering Central	The St Mary’s and St Michael’s wards
Kettering Rural	The Buccleuch, Queen Eleanor, Slade and Welland wards
Rothwell	The Tresham and Trinity wards
St Andrew’s and St Peter's	The St Andrew’s and St Peter’s wards
Wicksteed
	In the borough of Northampton
Abington	The Abington ward
Billing	The Billing ward
Boughton Green
Castle	The Castle ward
Delapre	The Delapre ward
East Hunsbury	The East Hunsbury ward
Eastfield	The Eastfield ward
Ecton Brook	The Ecton Brook ward
Headlands	The Headlands ward
Kingsley	The Kingsley ward
Kingsthorpe
Lumbertubs	The Lumbertubs ward
Nene Valley	The Nene Valley ward
New Duston	The New Duston ward
Old Duston	The Old Duston ward
Parklands	The Parklands ward
St Crispin	The St Crispin ward
St David
St James	The St James ward
Spencer	The Spencer ward
Thorplands	The Thorplands ward
West Hunsbury	The West Hunsbury ward
Weston	The Weston ward
	In the district of South Northamptonshire
Brackley East	The Astwell, Brackley East and Brackley South wards
Brackley West	The Brackley West, Little Brook and Steane wards
Bugbrooke	The Downs, Grange, Harpole and Heyford wards
Deanshanger	The Cosgrove, Deanshanger and Whittlewood wards and the parish of Yardley Gobion
Greens Norton	The Blakesley, Cote, Kingthorn, Silverstone and Washington wards
Hackleton	The Chase, Cogenhoe, Salcey and Yardley wards
Middleton Cheney	The King’s Sutton, Middleton Cheney and Wardoun wards
Roade	The Blisworth, Courteenhall and Tove wards and the parishes of Ashton and Grafton Regis
Towcester	The Towcester Brook and Towcester Mill wards
	In the borough of Wellingborough
Croyland
Earls Barton	The Earls Barton and South wards and the parishes of Grendon and Great Doddington
Finedon	The Finedon, North, and West wards and the parish of Wilby
Hemmingwell
Irchester	The Irchester ward and the parishes of Strixton and Wollaston
Queensway
Redwell	The Redwell East and Redwell West wards
Swanspool

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 county of Northamptonshire. 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 73 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.

Article 3 revokes the County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981.

The areas of the new divisions 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 Northamptonshire 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 Corby (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2506), the District of Daventry (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2507), the District of East Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2512), the Borough of Kettering (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2508), the Borough of Northampton (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2511), the District of South Northamptonshire (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2509), and the Borough of Wellingborough (Electoral Changes) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2510).

(4)

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

(5)

See the County of Northamptonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/49).