2001 No. 3885
LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND
The District of Cotswold (Electoral Changes) Order 2001
Made 30th November 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 1992, has submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated June 2001 on its review of the district of Cotswold together with its recommendations:
1992 c. 19.
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 and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Section 17 is amended by section 39(4) and (5) of Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (c. 29).

1 Citation, commencement and interpretation
1 This Order may be cited as the District of Cotswold (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 15th October 2002;
(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.
3 In this Order—
“district” means the district of Cotswold;
“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 for Transport, Local Government and the Regions marked “Map of the District of Cotswold (Electoral Changes) Order 2001”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994; and
any reference to a numbered sheet is a reference to the sheet of the map which bears that number.
S.I.1994/867, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.

2 Wards of the district of Cotswold
1 The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.
See the District of Cotswold (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 (S.I.1978/1435) as amended by the Gloucester Districts (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1991 (S.I.1991/793).
2 The district shall be divided into twenty-eight wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
3 The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to parishes 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 the 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.

3 Elections of the council of the district of Cotswold
1 The ordinary elections of all councillors of the district of Cotswold shall be held simultaneously on the ordinary day of election of non-metropolitan district councillors in 2003 and every fourth year after 2003.
For the ordinary day of election of councillors of local government areas, see section 37 of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (c. 2), amended by section 18(2) of the Representation of the People Act 1985 (c. 50) and section 17 of, and paragraphs 1 and 5 of Schedule 3 to, the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29).
2 The term of office of councillors shall be four years; and all councillors shall retire on the fourth day after the ordinary day of election of councillors in the year of retirement and the newly-elected councillors shall come into office on the day on which their predecessors retire.

4 Wards of the parish of Blockley
1 The existing wards of the parish of Blockley shall be abolished.
2 The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names Aston Magna, Blockley and Paxford; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 2 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.
3 The number of councillors to be elected for each of the Aston Magna and Paxford parish wards shall be two, and for the Blockley parish ward shall be seven.

5 Wards of the parish of Brimpsfield
1 The parish of Brimpsfield shall be divided into two parish wards which shall bear the names Brimpsfield and Caudle Green; and the wards shall comprise the areas designated on sheet 3 by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by orange lines.
2 The number of councillors to be elected for the Brimpsfield parish ward shall be five and for the Caudle Green parish ward shall be two.

6 Wards of the parish of Cirencester
1 The existing wards of the parish of Cirencester shall be abolished.
2 The parish shall be divided into five parish wards which shall bear the names Cirencester Beeches, Cirencester Chesterton, Cirencester Park, Cirencester Stratton-Whiteway and Cirencester Watermoor; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward bearing the same name; and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be three.

7 Numbers of parish councillors
1 The number of parish councillors to be elected for the parish of Bourton-on-the-Water shall be eleven.
2 The number of parish councillors to be elected for the parish of Southrop shall be five.

8 Revocation
The District of Cotswold (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Alan Whitehead Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions 30th November 2001

SCHEDULE NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS
Article 2
(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of ward	Area of ward	Number of Councillors
Ampney-Coln	The parishes of Ampney Crucis, Ampney St Mary, Ampney St Peter, Barnsley, Bibury, Coln St Dennis and Winson	1
Avening	The parishes of Ashley, Avening, Cherington, Long Newnton and Rodmarton	1
Beacon-Stow	The parishes of Adlestrop, Bledington, Evenlode, Maugersbury, Oddington and Stow-on-the-Wold	2
Blockley	The parish of Blockley	1
Bourton-on-the-Water	The parishes of Bourton-on-the-Water, Clapton and Cold Aston	2
Campden-Vale	The parishes of Aston Subedge, Chipping Campden, Ebrington, Mickleton, Saintbury, Weston Subedge, Weston Subedge (det) and Willersey	3
Chedworth	The parishes of Chedworth, Compton Abdale, Dowdeswell, Withington and Yanworth	1
Churn Valley	The parishes of Bagendon, Baunton, Coberley, Colesbourne, North Cerney and Rendcomb	1
Cirencester Beeches		2
Cirencester Chesterton		2
Cirencester Park		2
Cirencester Stratton-Whiteway		2
Cirencester Watermoor		2
Ermin	The parishes of Brimpsfield, Cowley, Daglingworth, Duntisbourne Abbots, Duntisbourne Rouse, Edgeworth, Elkstone, Syde and Winstone	1
Fairford	The parishes of Fairford, Hatherop and Quenington	2
Fosseridge	The parishes of Batsford, Bourton-on-the-Hill, Broadwell, Condicote, Donnington, Longborough, Sezincote and Todenham	1
Grumbolds Ash	The parishes of Beverstone, Boxwell with Leighterton, Didmarton, Kingscote, Ozleworth, Shipton Moyne, Tetbury Upton and Westonbirt with Lasborough	1
Hampton	The parishes of Down Ampney, Driffield, Maiseyhampton and Poulton	1
Kempsford-Lechlade	The parishses of Kempsford and Lechlade	2
Moreton-in-Marsh	The parish of Moreton-in-Marsh	2
Northleach	The parishes of Hampnett and Northleach with Eastington	1
Rissingtons	The parishes of Great Rissington, Icomb, Little Rissington, Upper Rissington, Westcote and Wyck Rissington	1
Riversmeet	The parishes of Aldsworth, Barrington, Coln St Aldwyns, Eastleach, Farmington, Sherbourne, Southrop and Windrush	1
Sandywell	The parishes of Andoversford, Hazleton, Notgrove, Sevenhampton, Shipton, Turkdean and Whittington	1
Tetbury	The parish of Tetbury	3
Thames Head	The parishes of Coates, Kemble and Sapperton	1
Three Rivers	The parishes of Cutsdean, Guiting Power, Lower Slaughter, Naunton, Swell, Temple Guiting and Upper Slaughter	1
Water Park	The parishes of Poole Keynes, Preston, Siddington, Somerford Keynes and South Cerney	3

(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 Cotswold. 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 28 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Article 3 provides for the election of all councillors of the district of Cotswold to take place in 2003 and every 4 years after that year.
Articles 4 to 7 make electoral changes in the parishes of Blockley, Bourton-on-the-Water, Brimpsfield, Cirencester and Southrop.
Article 8 revokes the District of Cotswold (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978.
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 Cotswold Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.