The District of South Holland (Electoral Changes) Order 1998

Made21st September 1998

Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

Whereas the Local Government Commission for England, acting pursuant to section 15(4) of the Local Government Act 19921, has submitted to the Secretary of State a report dated March 1997 on its review of the district of South Holland together with its recommendations:

And whereas the Secretary of State has decided to give effect to those recommendations:

Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 172 and 26 of the Local Government Act 1992, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation1

1

This Order may be cited as the District of South Holland (Electoral Changes) Order 1998.

2

This Order shall come into force for all purposes on 6th May 1999, except that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that date this Order shall come into force on 10th October 1998.

3

In this Order—

“the district” means the district of South Holland;
“existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;
any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, marked “Map of the District of South Holland (Electoral Changes) Order 1998”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 19943.

Wards of South Holland2

1

The existing wards of the district4 shall be abolished.

2

The district shall be divided into twenty two wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 1.

3

The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to parishes, or parishes and parish wards, or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of that Schedule.

4

Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, waterway or other similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.

Wards of the parish of Holbeach3

1

The existing wards of the parish of Holbeach shall be abolished.

2

The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of Schedule 2; each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward specified in respect of the parish ward in column (2) of that Schedule and the number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be the number specified in respect of the parish ward in column (3) of that Schedule.

Revocation4

The District of South Holland (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1978 is hereby revoked.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Hilary ArmstrongMinister of State,Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions21st September 1998

SCHEDULEDISTRICT OF SOUTH HOLLAND: NAMES AND AREAS OF WARDS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

Article 2

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of ward	Area of ward	Number of councillors
Crowland	The parish of Crowland	2
Deeping St Nicholas	The parish of Deeping St Nicholas	1
Donington	The parishes of Donington and Quadring	2
Fleet	The parish of Fleet	1
Gedney	The parish of Gedney	1
Gosberton Village	The Village parish ward of the parish of Gosberton	1
Holbeach Hurn		1
Holbeach St John's		1
Holbeach Town		3
Long Sutton	The parishes of Little Sutton, Long Sutton, Lutton and Tydd St Mary	3
Pinchbeck	The parish of Pinchbeck	3
Spalding Castle		1
Spalding Monks House		2
Spalding St John's		2
Spalding St Mary's	2
Spalding St Paul's	2
Spalding Wygate		2
Surfleet	The Risegate parish ward of the parish of Gosberton and the parish of Surfleet	1
Sutton Bridge	The parish of Sutton Bridge	2
The Saints	The parishes of Gedney Hill, Sutton St Edmund and Sutton St James	1
Weston and Moulton	The parishes of Cowbit, Moulton and Weston	3
Whaplode	The Saracens Head, The Village and St Catherine’s parish wards of the parish of Whaplode	1

SCHEDULE 2WARDS OF THE PARISH OF HOLBEACH: NAMES, AREAS AND NUMBERS OF COUNCILLORS

Article 3

(1)	(2)	(3)
Name of ward	Description of area	Number of councillors
St John's	Such part of the parish of Holbeach that is within the district ward of Holbeach St John's	5
Hurn	The Holbeach Hurn district ward	3
Town	The Holbeach Town district ward	10

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of South Holland.

Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 22 new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Article 3 makes electoral changes in the parish of Holbeach.

The areas of the new district and parish 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 South Holland District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions which are located at 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.