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The total time permitted for this item will be 15 minutes.

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Lead Member: Councillor Price

Report of the Head of Law and Governance

To agree:

(a)       That the city council should support the Commission’s proposed scheme of Electoral Divisions as it relates to Oxford;

(b)       That the Commission be requested to amend its proposal for warding for Risinghurst and Sandhills Parish Council as follows:-

-    Risinghurst North parish ward should have 10 councillors

- Risinghurst South parish ward should have 2 councillors

The Head of Law and Governance submitted a report (previously circulated, now appended).

Resolved:-

(1)    To support the Local Government Boundary Commission for England’s scheme of Electoral Divisions for Oxfordshire as it related to Oxford;

(2)    To ask the Commission to:-

(a) amend its warding proposals for Risinghurst and Sandhills Parish Council as follows;-

(i)     Risinghurst North parish ward should have 10 councillors

(ii) Risinghurst South parish ward should have 2 councillors

(b)   amend its proposals for the St Margaret’s and Wolvercote Electoral Divisions so that all residents of Aldrich Road, Salisbury Crescent and Wentworth Road were in the Wolvercote Electoral Division and not in the St Margaret’s Electoral Division, in order that residents of the Cutteslowe area of Oxford were all in the same Electoral Division;

(c) alter the boundaries shown on the Oxford proposals map in the John Garne Way, Lye Valley, Rose Hill, St Bernard’s Road, St Giles’ and Summertown areas so that they did not follow the middle of roads but ran along the backs of properties thereby ensuring that all residents of roads were included in the same Electoral Division.