2001 No. 1446

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Made10th April 2001

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 19921, has submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated October 2000 on its review of the district of South Staffordshire 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 172 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 interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001.

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—

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

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 District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 19943; and

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

Wards of the district of South Staffordshire2

1

The existing wards of the district4 shall be abolished.

2

The district shall be divided into twenty-five 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, parish wards or parishes and 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 Bilbrook3

1

The parish of Bilbrook shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names East, Lane Green and West; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 6 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.

2

The number of councillors to be elected for the East parish ward shall be seven, for the West parish ward shall be five and for the Lane Green parish ward shall be one.

Wards of the parish of Cheslyn Hay4

1

The existing wards of the parish of Cheslyn Hay shall be abolished.

2

The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names Littlewood, Pinfold and South; 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 South parish ward shall be eight, for the Littlewood parish ward shall be five and for the Pinfold parish ward shall be two.

The existing wards of the parish of Wombourne shall be abolished.

2

The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 3; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district 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 the number specified in respect of the parish ward in column (3) of that Schedule.

Number of parish councillors11

The number of parish councillors to be elected for the parish of Huntington shall be thirteen, of whom six shall be elected for the parish ward of Chase and seven for the parish ward of Littleton.

Revocation12

The District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 19775 and the District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1989 are hereby revoked.

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

Beverley HughesParliamentary Under Secretary of State,Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions10th April 2001

SCHEDULE 1NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

article 2

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of Ward	Area of Ward	Number of Councillors
Bilbrook		2
Brewood and Coven	The Brewood, Coven and Coven Heath parish wards of Brewood parish	3
Cheslyn Hay North and Saredon		2
Cheslyn Hay South		2
Codsall North		2
Codsall South		2
Essington	The parish of Essington	2
Featherstone and Shareshill	The parishes of Featherstone, Hilton and Shareshill	2
Great Wyrley Landywood		2
Great Wyrley Town		3
Himley and Swindon	The parishes of Himley and Swindon	1
Huntington and Hatherton	The parishes of Hatherton and Huntington	2
Kinver	The parish of Kinver	3
Pattingham and Patshull	The parish of Pattingham and Patshull	1
Penkridge North East and Acton Trussell		2
Penkridge South East		2
Penkridge West		1
Perton Dippons		1
Perton East		1
Perton Lakeside		3
Trysull and Seisdon	The parishes of Bobbington, Enville and Trysull and Seisdon	1
Wheaton Aston, Bishopswood and Lapley	The parishes of Blymhill and Weston-Under-Lizard and Lapley, Stretton and Wheaton Aston, and the Bishopswood parish ward of Brewood parish	2
Wombourne North and Lower Penn		3
Wombourne South East		2
Wombourne South West		2

SCHEDULE 2WARDS OF THE PARISH OF CODSALLNAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

article 5

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of Ward	Area of Ward	Number of Councillors
North	The district ward of Codsall North	8
South	So much of the district ward of Codsall South as comprises part of the parish of Codsall	7

SCHEDULE 3WARDS OF THE PARISH OF WOMBOURNENAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

article 10

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of Ward	Area of Ward	Number of Councillors
North	So much of the district ward of Wombourne North and Lower Penn as comprises part of the parish of Wombourne	6
South East	The district ward of Wombourne South East	4
South West	The district ward of Wombourne South West	5

(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 district of South Staffordshire. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 25 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 to 11 make electoral changes in the parishes of Bilbrook, Cheslyn Hay, Codsall, Great Wyrley, Kinver, Perton, Penkridge, Wombourne and Huntington.

Article 12 revokes the District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977 and the District of South Staffordshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1989.

The areas of the new district and parish 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 South Staffordshire District 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.