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Agenda for Community Governance Review Committee on Tuesday, 7th June 2011, 6.00 pm

Agenda and draft minutes

Community Governance Review Committee - Tuesday, 7th June 2011 6.00 pm

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Contact: Carol Russell

Items
No.	Item
10.	Apologies for absence Minutes: Apologies for absence were received from Councillors Greg Morgan and Geoff Russell.
11.	Declarations of Any Interests Members are reminded of their responsibility to declare any personal interest in respect of matters contained in this agenda. If the interest arises only as result of your membership of another public body or one to which you have been appointed by the Council then you only need to declare it if you intend to speak. If the personal interest is a prejudicial interest, you must withdraw from the meeting. Normally you should leave the room before the business starts to be discussed. You do, however, have the same right to speak as a member of the public and may remain in the room to enable you to exercise that right and then leave immediately. In either case you must not seek to improperly influence a decision on the matter. Minutes: No declarations of any interest were declared.
12.	Minutes PDF 58 KB To confirm the enclosed minutes of the Community Governance Review Committee meeting held on 31 January 2011. Minutes: RESOLVED - That the minutes of the Community Governance Review Committee meeting held on 31 January 2011 be held as a correct record for signing by the Chair.
13.	Consultation Feedback and Draft Recommendations for the Buckshaw CGR PDF 563 KB A report of the Director of Transformation is attached. Additional documents: response 1 , item 13. PDF 114 KB response 2 , item 13. PDF 120 KB response 3 , item 13. PDF 109 KB response 4 , item 13. PDF 200 KB response 5 , item 13. PDF 78 KB There are a further 8 documents.View the full list of documents for item 13. Minutes: The Terms of Reference document had been published on 7 April 2011. Following the closure of the preliminary stage of the review, the next stage would be to draw up specific recommendations on the future community governance arrangements taking into account the consultation responses. A significant number of written representations had been received and all were attached to the report in full. A covering schedule was included and Members were urged to read each response in detail to help inform the draft recommendations stage. There did appear to be a key aspiration from the consultation, for Buckshaw Village to be under one rather than two local authority areas The Council had made a request for a Boundary Review some years ago and at the start of the Review there had been no indication by the Local Government Boundary Committee for England as to when this might take place. It was explained that since the closure of the consultation, the Council had received correspondence indicating that if both Chorley and South Ribble Councils were in agreement to a review of the boundary between the two Councils in the Buckshaw area, then they would be willing to look at this. The Chair reported that the two Councils were due to meet later that week to consider the potential for a Boundary Review for Buckshaw. It had already been stated in the Terms of Reference that a change in the boundary would have a major impact on this review, so it was proposed to suspend the work of this Committee until a way forward had been agreed on the boundary review. It was anticipated that a decision would be made at the next full Councils of two authorities in July. RESOLVED – That the Community Governance Review of Buckshaw Village be suspended until an agreement is reached by Chorley and South Ribble Councils on the potential for a Boundary Review.