Meeting documents

To consider a report of the Corporate Manager, Democratic Services & Electoral Services.

The Brief holder for Corporate Affairs and Continuous Improvement presented a report which set out draft recommendations for public consultation for the creation of a Parish Council in Weymouth.

The committee noted that the recommendations would be subject to a special meeting of Full Council on 9 November 2017.

It was proposed by Councillor A Reed seconded by Councillor J Cant.

Recommendation to Full Council

(a)       That the draft recommendations for a new Parish Council for Weymouth summarised below, and set out in detail with supporting information at Appendix 2 to the report, be agreed for public consultation with a view to establishing a new Parish Council at the same time as any new Unitary Council for Dorset:

·           The creation of a single Parish Council covering the Weymouth                       area

·           The name of the proposed new Parish Council will be Weymouth

       Town Council

·           The first election to the proposed new Parish Council to be in 2019      and then every fourth year thereafter;

·           The number of councillors to be elected to the proposed new Parish Council (Council size) will be 29;

·           The proposed new parish will be divided into 12 wards for the

       purposes of electing councillors;

·           The boundaries of the wards of the proposed new Council will be        as indicated on the maps attached at Appendix A to the proposed

recommendation document, and follow the boundaries of the Borough Council Wards;

·           The name of the proposed Wards and the number of Councillors to

       be elected to the proposed wards is as indicated at Appendix B to

the proposed recommendation document and replicate the names of the existing Borough Wards; and

(b)       That authority be delegate to the Corporate Manager, Democratic    & Electoral Services, power to undertake all action including any determinations in order to progress the consultation referred to in the Terms of Reference agreed by Full Council in June.