Lib Dems at Three Rivers District Council likely to seek reduction in number of wards from 20 to 13

5:35pm Monday 15th October 2012 in News

The number of district councillors representing Three Rivers will fall from 48 to 39 as part of boundary changes in the borough.

It is not clear yet how the number will affect the political landscape but it is understood the ruling Liberal Democrat council will seek to reduce the number of wards from 20 to 13.

Councillor Ann Shaw, leader of the council, said the Local Government Boundary Commission’s decision was a backing of the Liberal Democrats’ proposals.

The Conservative party had applied for a more severe reduction to 30 councillors covering 10 wards while Labour had sought a smaller reduction to 42 councillors.

The first elections based on the new wards system will take place from May 2014.

Comments(7)

Reg Edit says...
6:56pm Mon 15 Oct 12

What a good idea. Fewer politicians means less meddling.

If they could have managed with just 10 wards, so much the better.

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pepsiman says...
10:01pm Mon 15 Oct 12

Times have changed. 5 wards is adequate, but there again they would have to earn their money, not going to happen is it

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Sanity 750 says...
8:21am Tue 16 Oct 12

30 Councillors is enough. I would love to see the Boundary Commission’s reasons why they feel 9 more are needed.

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theguitarman says...
9:04am Tue 16 Oct 12

ah ! but TRDC's Lib Dems have left something out. At the moment we vote for our beloved leaders every 5 years, under this proposal / change we will be voting for them every 4 years, so more money is spent over a period of time plus all the town hall election staff have to do more work so more money spent.

Big companies have done this in the past with their branches, they had branches in every town then they cut them down to an "area" the result less service and customer contact and supposedly saved money. They didnt , they got less customers.

We will get the same problem, less councillors covering the same amount of enquiries and work and the job won't get done. Do you really want to live in say Chorleywood and have to talk to a councillor who is in Croxley Green ?, or how about Oxhey with a councillor in South Oxhey ? ( assuming South Oxhey will still be in TRDC's area !)

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Sanity 750 says...
9:20am Tue 16 Oct 12

Unfortunately all too often Councillors don’t live in the Ward they represent now. In Watford we have Wards where none of the 3 Councillors are local.

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Sara says...
10:15am Tue 16 Oct 12

The timing of elections won't change at all. The electorate will continue to elect one third of the Councillors every year for three years in a four year cycle - the fourth year is county council elections.

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Sanity 750 says...
5:24pm Tue 16 Oct 12

But it will be all out elections in 2014. It is possible in one go the ruling party could lose the Council.

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