The Dorset (District Boundaries) Order 1987

Statutory Instruments

1987 No. 2228

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

CHANGES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS

The Dorset (District Boundaries) Order 1987

Made

23rd December 1987

Laid before Parliament

11th January 1988

Coming into force

for the purposes referred to in article 1(2)

1st February 1988

for all other purposes

1st April 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of his powers under sections 51(2) and 67(4) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order which gives effect to proposals submitted to him under sections 47 and 51(1) of that Act, more than six weeks before the making of this Order, by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England:

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Dorset (District Boundaries) Order 1987.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 1st February 1988 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) (coming into operation of order) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(2).

(3) For all other purposes this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1988.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“boundary map” means the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Map of the Dorset (District Boundaries) Order 1987” and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

“county electoral division” means an electoral division of the county of Dorset.

Transfers from the district of Purbeck to the district of North Dorset

3.—(1) The area of the district of Purbeck and of the parish of Bloxworth which is marked Area F on the boundary map shall be transferred to—

(a) the district of North Dorset;

(b) the Lower Winterborne ward of that district;

(c) the parish of Anderson;

(d) the Winterborne county electoral division;

(e) the Sturminster and Blandford petty sessional division;

(f) the Western Coroner’s district.

(2) The area of the district of Purbeck and the parish of Bere Regis which is marked Area A on the boundary map and the area of the district of Purbeck and the parish of Bloxworth which is marked area C on the boundary map shall be transferred to—

(a) the district of North Dorset;

(b) the Lower Winterborne ward of that district;

(c) the parish of Winterborne Kingston;

(d) the Winterborne county electoral division;

(e) the Sturminster and Blandford petty sessional division;

(f) the Western Coroner’s district.

Transfers from the district of North Dorset to the district of Purbeck

4.—(1) The area of the district of North Dorset and of the parish of Winterborne Kingston which is marked Area B on the boundary map shall be transferred to—

(a) the district of Purbeck;

(b) the Bere Regis ward of that district;

(c) the parish of Bere Regis;

(d) the Egdon Heath county electoral division;

(e) the Wareham petty sessional division;

(f) the Eastern Coroner’s district.

(2) The areas of the district of North Dorset and of the parish of Anderson which are marked Area D and Area E on the boundary map shall be transferred to—

(a) the district of Purbeck;

(b) the Bere Regis ward of that district;

(c) the parish of Bloxworth;

(d) the Egdon Heath county electoral division;

(e) the Wareham petty sessional division;

(f) the Eastern Coroner’s district.

Transfers between parishes in the district of North Dorset

5.  The area of the parish of Anderson which is marked Area G on the boundary map shall be transferred to the parish of Winterborne Kingston.

Town and Country Planning

6.  Any provisions of a local plan adopted by a district council which apply immediately before 1st April 1988 to an area transferred by article 3 or 4 of this Order shall continue to have effect in relation to that area as if they were part of such a plan adopted by the council of the district to which that area is transferred.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State.

Christopher Chope

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment

23rd December 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers areas between the districts of North Dorset and Purbeck in the county of Dorset. The parishes affected are Anderson and Winterborne Kingston in the district of North Dorset and Bere Regis and Bloxworth in the district of Purbeck. Consequential changes to local government electoral areas are made.

The map forming part of this note (page 4) gives a general guide to the areas affected. Prints of the detailed boundary map (described in article 2) may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of the North Dorset and Purbeck district councils and at the office of the Secretary of State for the Environment, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.

The areas transferred from Purbeck to North Dorset have together an area of approximately 95.43 hectares, a population of 21 and a rateable value of £2,125. The areas transferred from North Dorset to Purbeck are very small.

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 contain general provisions regarding the effect of orders such as this one.

(1)

1972 c. 70.

(2)

S.I. 1976/246, amended by S.I. 1978/247.