The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 1992

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, ENGLAND AND WALES

CHANGES IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS

The Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992

Made

18th August 1992

Laid before Parliament

25th August 1992

Coming into force for the purposes referred to in article 1(2)

15th September 1992

for all other purposes

1st April 1993

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, 48(1) 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 Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 15th September 1992 for any purpose set out in regulation 4(1) of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976(2).

(3) For all other purposes, this Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“Cheshire” means the county of Cheshire,

and “Ellesmere Port” means the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston in that county;

“electoral division” means an electoral division of Cheshire;

“the map” means one of the 3 maps prepared by the Department of the Environment, marked “Maps of the Cheshire and Merseyside (County Boundaries) Order 1992”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 5 of the Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976;

“Merseyside” means the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and

“Wirral” means the metropolitan borough of Wirral in that county; and

“ward” means a ward of the borough or metropolitan borough from or to which an area is transferred.

Transfers from Cheshire (Ellesmere Port) to Merseyside (Wirral)

3.  Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Cheshire, from Ellesmere Port, and from the ward named in column 3 to—

(a) Merseyside;

(b) Wirral;

(c) the ward mentioned in column 4; and to

(d) the Wirral Borough petty sessional division and the Wirral coroner’s district.

TABLE

1.	2.	3.	4.
Area marked	On map	Transferred from Cheshire, from Ellesmere Port,and from the following ward—	To Merseyside, to Wirral,and to the following ward—
C	2	Neston	Clatterbridge
B	2	Parkgate	Clatterbridge
A	2	Parkgate	Heswall
A	3	Westminster	Eastham
B	1	Willaston and Thornton	Eastham

Transfers from Merseyside (Wirral) to Cheshire (Ellesmere Port)

4.  Each area which is marked as shown in column 1 of the following Table on the map indicated in column 2 shall be transferred from Merseyside, from Wirral,and from the ward named in column 3 to—

(a) Cheshire;

(b) Ellesmere Port;

(c) the ward and the electoral division mentioned in column 4; and to

(d) the Ellesmere Port and Neston petty sessional division and the Cheshire coroner’s district.

TABLE

1.	2.	3.	4.
Area marked	On map	Transferred from Merseyside, from Wirral and from the following ward—	To Cheshire, to Ellesmere Port, and to—
D	1	Clatterbridge	Willaston and Thornton ward South Wirral electoral division
B E	3 1	Eastham	Westminster ward Grange and Rossmore electoral division
A & C	1	Eastham	Willaston and Thornton ward South Wirral electoral division

Town and country planning

5.—(1) In this article, “provision” means a provision of a development plan (as defined in section 336 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(3)).

(2) Any provision applying to an area transferred by this Order shall continue to apply to that area, notwithstanding the transfer, until replaced by a provision which so applies, and which is expressed to supersede the preserved provision.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment

G. S. K. Young

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment

18th August 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes changes in the boundary between the county of Cheshire and the metropolitan county of Merseyside, affecting the Cheshire borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston, and the metropolitan borough of Wirral. The general effect of the changes is as follows—

(a) realignment of the boundary in the vicinity of Newhall Cottages, Mapleoak Kennels and Lyndale Farm to follow the line of Boathouse Lane and Chester High Road;

(b) transfer to Merseyside of area including Westwood Grange Country Club, so that the boundary follows the line of the path which crosses Neston Road to the south of the Club and Westwood Lodge, and to the north of Yew Tree Farm; and

(c) alterations in the vicinity of the M53 motorway at Hooton, affecting the area north of Hooton Road, and the areas of Hooton Park Farm, Hooton Gardens and Hooton Park and the neighbouring oil storage depot.

In approximate terms, the land transferred from Cheshire to Merseyside has a total area of 15 hectares, and a population of 30, and that transferred from Merseyside to Cheshire a total area of 185 hectares and a population of 160. Consequential changes to local government electoral areas, petty sessional divisions and coroners' districts are made. No parishes are affected.

This Note is a general guide only to the areas affected, and the maps described in article 2 should be inspected for full details of the transfers. Any person may inspect the maps at any reasonable time at the offices of the Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council and of the Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, and additionally at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment located in 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3EB.

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.

(3)

1990 c. 8. This definition was amended by the Planning and Compensation Act 1991 (c. 34), Schedule 4, paragraph 34.