Cumbria County Council (FER)
April 2012: Correction to the Cumbria draft recommendations report (pages 34-35) (PDF)
Stage Three
On 25 October 2011 we published our draft recommendations for electoral arrangements for Cumbria County Council and invited comments on the draft recommendations for the authority.
The consultation was extended and we accepted responses submitted to the Commission by 30 January 2012. We believe that the new timescale took better account of the Christmas break whilst ensuring that the review will still be completed in May 2012.
Consultation closed on 30 January 2012.
Below are the submissions we received. The submissions are organised by the areas they refer to.
County Wide
Allerdale
Conservative Group Cockermouth town council (PDF)
Workington Constituency Labour Party (PDF)
Workington Conservative Association (PDF)
Cockermouth town council (PDF)
St John's Castlerigg and Wythburn parish council (PDF)
Barrow
Barrow and Furness Labour Party (PDF)
Carlisle
Carlisle Constiuency Labour Party (PDF)
MP Stevenson (PDF)
St Cuthbert Without parish council (PDF)
Weatheral parish council (PDF)
Copeland
Copeland Borough Council (PDF)
South Lakeland
South Lakeland District Council (PDF)
Preston Patrick parish council (PDF)
We have received electoral figures from Cumbria County Council. Click here to view these figures (PDF)
We have also provided an overview map showing only electoral division and parish boundaries for Cumbria.
Overview map - electoral divisions and parishes (PDF)
The recommendations can be found using the links below:
- Draft recommendations for Cumbria County Council (PDF)
- Summary of the report (PDF)
- News release on draft recommendations for Cumbria County Council
- Letter to the Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council (PDF)
Maps of the areas recommendations:
- Map 1 - Overview (PDF)
- Map 2 - Carlisle City (PDF)
- Map 3 - Wetheral parish and Carlisle City (PDF)
- Map 4 - Maryport in Allerdale Borough (PDF)
- Map 5 - Whitehaven and Egremonth in Copeland Borough(PDF)
- Map 6 - Cleator Moor and Egremonth in Copeland Borough (PDF)
- Map 7- Kendal in South Lakeland Borough (PDF)
- Map 8 - Millom in Copeland Borough (PDF)
- Map 9 - Barrow-in-Furness (PDF)
Please note some of these maps are large and may take some time to download.
To submit comments on the draft recommendations, you can click here to use our online submissions form,e-mail us at reviews@lgbce.org.uk or send a submission in writing to the following address:
The Review Officer (Cumbria) Local Government Boundary Commission for England Layden House 76-86 Turnmill Street London EC1M 5LG
Stage one - consultation on ward boundaries
On 29 March 2011, we began our consultation on electoral division boundaries in Cumbria. In the previous stage, we consulted on the number of councillors Cumbria should have and decided it should have 84 councillors. Between 29 March and 20 June, we invited comments on the division boundaries in the authority.
Consultation closed on 20 June 2011.
Below are the submissions we received:
Local authority
Allerdale Borough Council (PDF)
South Lakeland District Council (PDF)
MP and Political groups
Councillors
Parish and Town councils
All the submissions are contained in one PDF document. At the front of the document there is a list of names with internal links to the relevant submissions
Parish and Town councils (PDF)
Local residents
The below links contain more information
Letter sent to the Chief Executive of Cumbria County Council (PDF)
You may find the electoral figures (XLS) for Cumbria useful.
Please note that the figures in the above proforma may be subject to change. Any revision to the figures will be noted as soon as they are available.
Preliminary council size consultation
On 12 October 2010 we started an electoral review of Cumbria County Council. From 12 October 2010 to 22 November 2010 we invited proposals for the council size of the council.
We only considered comments on council size at this time, and we will consider detailed electoral arrangements for Cumbria during two further periods of consultation later in 2011.
Below are the submissions we recieved:
Local authorities:
South Lakeland District Council (PDF)
Political groups, Councillors, and MPs:
Cumbria County Labour Group (PDF)
Copland Conservative Association (PDF)
Additional submission from MP Stevenson (PDF)
Parish and town councils:
All the submissions are contained in one PDF document. At the front of the document there is a list of names with internal links to the relevant submissions
Parish and town councils (PDF)
Local organisations
Cumbria Rural Housing Trust (PDF)
Local residents:
The below links contain information about this review:
Letter sent to the Chief Executive of Cumbria District Council (PDF)
You may find maps of Cumbria's divisions (PDF) and parishes (PDF) useful.
Here are the electoral figures for Cumbria (PDF)
Click here to use our online form to give your views on Cumbria.
We produced two different documents to support people where there is an electoral review being conducted in their area: