The City and County Borough of Newport (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2021

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 1216 (W. 305)

Local Government, Wales

The City and County Borough of Newport (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2021

Made

1 November 2021

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

The Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales(1) has, in accordance with section 36(5) of the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013(2) (“the 2013 Act”), submitted to the Welsh Ministers a report dated August 2020 containing its recommendations for change and the details of its review of the electoral arrangements for the City and County Borough of Newport.

The Welsh Ministers have, after consideration of the matters referred to and set out in section 37(2)(a) and (c) of the 2013 Act, decided to give effect to those recommendations with modification.

In accordance with section 37(3) of the 2013 Act, more than 6 weeks have elapsed since those recommendations were submitted to the Welsh Ministers.

The Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of their powers conferred by section 37(1) of the 2013 Act.

Title and commencement

1.—(1) The title of this Order is the City and County Borough of Newport (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2021.

(2) For any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Regulations, this Order comes into force on the second day after the day on which it is made.

(3) For all other purposes, this Order comes into force on the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2022(3).

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“electoral ward” (“ward etholiadol”) means any area for which members are elected to Newport City Council;

“the Regulations” (“y Rheoliadau”) means the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(4);

any reference to a map means one of the 2 maps marked “Map of the City and County Borough of Newport (Electoral Arrangements) Order 2021” deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Regulations, labelled “1” and “2”, and a reference to a numbered map is a reference to the map that bears that number;

where a boundary is shown on a map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it is to be treated as running along the centre line of the feature;

words and expressions used in this Order have the same meaning as they have in Part 3 of the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013, except so far as a contrary intention appears.

Electoral arrangements for the City and County Borough of Newport

3.—(1) The electoral wards of the City and County Borough of Newport, as they exist immediately before the ordinary day of election of councillors in 2022, are abolished.

(2) The City and County Borough of Newport is divided into 21 electoral wards each bearing the English language name listed in column 1 and the Welsh language name listed in column 2 of the Table in the Schedule to this Order.

(3) Each electoral ward comprises the areas specified in relation to that electoral ward in column 3 of the Table in the Schedule to this Order.

(4) The number of members of the council to be elected for each electoral ward is the number specified in column 4 of the Table in the Schedule to this Order.

(5) The provisions in this Order take precedence over any conflicting provision in any previous statutory instrument made under section 58(2) of the Local Government Act 1972(5).

The communities of Graig and Rogerstone: changes to community boundaries

4.  The part of the community of Graig shown hatched on Map 1 is transferred to the community of Rogerstone, and forms part of the West ward of the community of Rogerstone.

The community of Rogerstone: changes to electoral arrangements

5.  In the community of Rogerstone—

(a) the number of members to be elected for the East ward is 4;

(b) the number of members to be elected for the North ward is 4;

(c) the number of members to be elected for the West ward is 7.

The communities of Pillgwenlly and Stow Hill: changes to community boundaries

6.  The part of the community of Pillgwenlly shown hatched on Map 2 is transferred to the community of Stow Hill.

Rebecca Evans

Minister for Finance and Local Government, one of the Welsh Ministers

1 November 2021

Article 3

SCHEDULE NAMES AND AREAS OF ELECTORAL WARDS AND NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL

Table

Column (1)	Column (2)	Column (3)	Column (4)
English language name of electoral ward	Welsh language name of electoral ward	Area of electoral ward	Number of members of the council
Allt-yr-yn	Allt-yr-ynn	The community of Allt-yr-yn	3
Alway	Alway	The community of Alway	3
Beechwood	Beechwood	The community of Beechwood	3
Bettws	Betws	The community of Bettws	3
Bishton and Langstone	Trefesgob a Langstone	The communities of Bishton, Langstone, Llanvaches, and Penhow	2
Caerleon	Caerllion	The community of Caerleon	3
Gaer	Gaer	The community of Gaer	3
Graig	Graig	The community of Graig	2
Lliswerry	Llyswyry	The community of Lliswerry	4
Llanwern	Llan-wern	The communities of Goldcliff, Llanwern, Nash and Redwick	1
Malpas	Malpas	The community of Malpas	3
Pillgwenlly	Pilgwenlli	The community of Pillgwenlly	2
Ringland	Ringland	The community of Ringland	3
Rogerstone East	Dwyrain Tŷ-du	The East ward of the community of Rogerstone	1
Rogerstone North	Gogledd Tŷ-du	The North ward of the community of Rogerstone	1
Rogerstone West	Gorllewin Tŷ-du	The West ward of the community of Rogerstone	2
Shaftesbury	Shaftesbury	The community of Shaftesbury	2
St Julians	Sain Silian	The community of St Julians	3
Stow Hill	Stow Hill	The community of Stow Hill	2
Tredegar Park and Marshfield	Parc Tredegar a Maerun	The communities of Marshfield, Michaelstone-y-Fedw, Coedkernew, Wentlooge and Tredegar Park	3
Victoria	Victoria	The community of Victoria	2

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order implements the recommendations of the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales (“the Commission”), which reported in August 2020 on its review of the electoral arrangements for the City and County Borough of Newport. The Commission’s Report proposed an increase in the number of electoral wards from 20 to 21 and in the number of councillors from 50 to 51.

This Order implements the Commission’s recommendations with modification.

Article 3 of this Order abolishes the existing electoral arrangements for the City and County Borough of Newport and introduces the Schedule, which sets out the new electoral arrangements for the City and County Borough of Newport.

This Order also implements recommendations for changes to community boundaries and changes to the electoral arrangements for some communities within the City and County Borough of Newport.

Article 4 makes changes to the boundary between the communities of Graig and Rogerstone. Article 5 makes changes to the number of members to be elected for the East, North and West wards of the community of Rogerstone.

Article 6 makes changes to the boundary between the communities of Pillgwenlly and Stow Hill.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.

Prints of the maps labelled “1” and “2” to which this Order relates are deposited in the office of the Welsh Government at Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ (Local Government Democracy Division), and with Newport City Council. Prints deposited with Newport City Council are open to inspection by anyone affected by the provisions of this Order.

(1)

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales was established by section 53 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70) (“the 1972 Act”). Section 53 and Schedule 8 were repealed by section 73(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Local Government (Democracy) (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 4) (“the 2013 Act”). The 2013 Act re-names the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales as the Local Democracy and Boundary Commission for Wales (see section 2).

(2)

2013 anaw 4.

(3)

The Local Authorities (Change to the Years of Ordinary Elections) (Wales) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1269 (W. 220)) amends section 26(1) of the 1972 Act to provide that the year in which the ordinary elections of councillors of local authorities shall take place is 2022 instead of 2021.

(4)

S.I. 1976/246. Section 74(3) of the 2013 Act provides that the Regulations continue to have effect in relation to orders made under Part 3 of the 2013 Act, as if those orders were made under Part 4 of the 1972 Act.

(5)

1972 c. 70; section 58 of the 1972 Act was repealed by section 73(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the 2013 Act, subject to savings provisions specified in section 74 of the 2013 Act.