Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, subject to the modification detailed below, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of West Devon. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.
The modification alters the name proposed for one of the wards of the parish of Buckland Monachorum, and the number of parish councillors to be elected for each ward of that parish. The proposed Buckland Village parish ward will be known as the Buckland Monachorum parish ward and will be represented by eleven, rather than ten, parish councillors. The Buckland Harrowbeer parish ward will be represented by one, rather than two, parish councillors.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and the Schedule make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Articles 3 to 9 make electoral changes in the parishes of Buckland Monachorum, Drewsteignton, Meavy, Okehampton,.Okehampton Hamlets, Tavistock and Walkhampton.
Article 10 revokes the District of West Devon (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977.
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 West Devon 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.