The District of East Hampshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect, subject to modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of East Hampshire. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.

The modifications relate to names of wards. The Secretary of State has decided that the wards shown in the first column of the Table below with the names proposed by the Commission should bear the names shown in the second column.

Proposed Ward Name	Ward Name
Clanfield	Clanfield and Finchdean
Farringdon	Downland
Liss Forest and Greatham	The Hangers and Forest

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 38 new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Articles 3 to 8 make electoral changes in the parishes of Alton, Horndean, Liss, Petersfield, Rowlands Castle and Whitehill.

Article 9 revokes the District of East Hampshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.

The areas of the new district wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of East Hampshire District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.