(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order gives effect, subject to one modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the city of Nottingham. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on or after 1st May 2003.
The Secretary of State has decided that the ward for which the Commission proposed the name “Aspley and Strelley” shall bear the name “Aspley”.
Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the city and provides for the creation of twenty new wards. That article and the Schedule also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.
Article 3 revokes the City of Nottingham (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.
The areas of the new city 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 Nottingham City 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.