Malvern Hills

The consultation on warding arrangements for Malvern Hills District Council closed on 20 September 2021.

From 13 July to 20 September, we are accepting opinions and comments (submissions) from the public on where you believe ward boundaries should be in Malvern Hills District Council.

The Commission is minded to recommend that Malvern Hills District Council should have 31 councillors in the future. This is seven fewer than the current number of councillors.

The Commission has not yet proposed any new wards. We want to hear what you think of the existing wards and where new boundaries should go. The existing boundaries can be viewed from the links below.

The Commission now needs information from people and groups across Malvern Hills to help it to produce new ward boundaries to accommodate 31 councillors.

For more information, see our:

• News release 
• Letter to the Chief Executive of Malvern Hills District Council
• Electoral figures
• Promotional poster [1] [2]
• Malvern Hills polling district map (Please note, polling district mapping data has been supplied by Malvern Hills District Council and may contain boundary errors.)

To view an interactive map of the existing warding boundaries, visit our consultation area. You can search by area or postcode, and have your say. A non-interactive image of the current ward boundaries is also available.

You can make a submission to the Malvern Hills electoral review:

1. through our consultation area, 
2. by e-mailing [email protected], or
3. writing to the following address:

   The Review Officer (Malvern Hills)
   LGBCE,                                                                        
   PO BOX 133
   Blyth
   NE24 9FE

Information on how reviews work is available on our How Reviews Work Page.

For a quick guide on how to propose a pattern of wards click here.

You may also wish to read our document Electoral Reviews: Technical Guidance, which contains guidance on the review process and information on the legislation reviews are carried out under.

If you have any feedback regarding our review process then click here.

As part of the initial stages of the review, we consulted with Malvern Hills District Council on the most appropriate number of councillors to be elected to the council in future.

We received one submission on council size:

• Malvern Hills District Council

The Commission is minded to recommend that 31 councillors should serve Malvern Hills District Council in the future. This is seven fewer than the current number of councillors.

This review was started by the Local Government Commission for England (LGCE) on 31 July 2001 but, following the transfer of the LGCE's functions to The Electoral Commission, the review was completed by The Boundary Committee for England (BCFE).

The Order implementing The Electoral Commission's decision on the final recommendations of this review has been made and can be viewed on Her Majesty's Stationery Office's website. The Implementation Team section of the Commission's website explains how the Commission's decisions on The Boundary Committee for England's final recommendations are made into Orders. The current boundaries of the electoral wards and divisions can be viewed on Ordnance Survey's election maps website. Parish warding is not shown on the election maps website. It can be seen on the mapping from the Committee's final recommendations below; any modifications are listed in the Explanatory Note at the back of the Order.

Final report (PDF), published on 30 July 2002 by the BCFE

Map 1 Existing wards in Malvern Hills; (PDF)

Map 2 The Commission's final recommendations for Malvern Hills; (PDF)

Map A1 illustrates, in outline form, the proposed ward boundaries within the district and indicates the areas which are shown in more detail on Map A2 and the large map at the back of this report; (PDF)

Map A2 illustrates the proposed parish wards of Malvern Wells parish; (PDF)

Large map (3.7 Mb) illustrates the proposed warding arrangements for Great Malvern; (PDF)

Draft report (PDF), published on 26 March 2002 by the LGCE

Map 1 Existing wards in Malvern Hills; (PDF)

Map 2 The Commission's final recommendations for Malvern Hills; (PDF)

Map A1 illustrates,in outline form, the proposed ward boundaries within the district and indicates the areas which are shown in more detail on the large map; (PDF)

Large map (3.7 Mb) illustrating the existing and proposed ward boundaries for Great Malvern. This may take some time to download; (PDF)