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County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2000/2486
Year2000

2000 No. 2486

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND

The County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000

Made 11th September 2000

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 January 2000 on its review of the county of Cheshire together with its recommendations:

And whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect, without modification, to those recommendations:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 172and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

S-1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.

(2) This Order shall come into force—

(a)

(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;

(b)

(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.

(3) In this Order—

“county” means the county of Cheshire;

“existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;

references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to borough, city and district wards in the county3; and

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 County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 19944.

S-2 Divisions of the county of Cheshire

Divisions of the county of Cheshire

2.—(1) The existing divisions of the county5shall be abolished.

(2) The county shall be divided into fifty-one divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.

(3) The divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to wards or wards and parishes, or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each division shall be one.

(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.

S-3 Revocation

Revocation

3. The County of Cheshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 is hereby revoked.

Hilary Armstrong

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

11th September 2000

SCHEDULE

article 2

NAMES AND AREAS OF ELECTORAL DIVISIONS

(1)

(2)

Name of Division

Area of Division

In the city of Chester

Blacon

The Blacon Hall and Blacon Lodge wards

Boughton Heath and Vicars Cross

The Boughton Heath, Dodleston, Huntington and Vicars Cross wards

Broxton

The Farndon, Malpas, Tattenhall and Tilston wards

City

The Boughton, City and St Anne’s and College wards

Gowy

The Christleton, Kelsall, Tarvin and Waverton wards

Hoole and Newton

Mickle Trafford

The Barrow, Elton, Mickle Trafford, Mollington and Saughall wards

Overleigh

The Curzon and Westminster, Handbridge and St Mary’s and Lache Park wards

Upton

In the borough of Congleton

Alsager

The Alsager Central, Alsager East and Alsager West wards

Congleton Rural

The Brereton, Dane Valley and Holmes Chapel wards and the parishes of Hulme Walfield, Smallwood, Somerford and Somerford Booths

Congleton Town East

The Buglawton, Congleton North and Congleton South wards and the parishes of Moreton-cum-Alcumlow and Newbold Astbury

Congleton Town West

The Congleton Central, Congleton North West and Congleton West wards

Middlewich

The Middlewich Cledford and Middlewich Kinderton wards

Sandbach

The Sandbach North and Sandbach West wards

Sandbach East and Rode

The Lawton, Odd Rode and Sandbach East wards

In the borough of Crewe and Nantwich

Cholmondeley

The Acton, Audlem, Bunbury, Minshull, Peckforton and Wrenbury wards

Crewe East

The Delamere, Maw Green and Waldron wards

Crewe North

The Coppenhall, Grosvenor and Leighton wards

Crewe South

The Alexandra, St John’s and Valley wards

Crewe West

The St Barnabas and Wistaston Green wards

Doddington

The Englesea, Haslington and Wybunbury wards

Nantwich

The Barony Weaver, Birchin and Wellington wards

Rope

The St Mary's, Shavington, Wells Green and Willaston wards

In the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston

Central and Westminster

Grange and Rossmore

Groves and Whitby

The Groves, Strawberry Fields and Whitby wards

Ledsham and Willaston

The Burton and Ness, Ledsham and Willaston and Thornton wards

Neston and Parkgate

The Little Neston, Neston, Parkgate and Riverside wards

Sutton and Manor

The Pooltown...

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