Time is running out for people to have their say on proposed changes to Parliamentary voting boundaries.
The plans would see some residents in Streethay and Whittington voting for Tamworth’s MP in future.
An eight-week consultation run by The Boundary Commission for England will close at midnight on 2nd August.
Tim Bowden, secretary to the Boundary Commission for England, said:
“We want to hear from as many people as possible to help us get the boundaries we have proposed right.
“I encourage all members of the public to tell us whether their local area is best represented in the boundary lines and constituency names we have suggested.
“Every response will be taken into account during the development of our revised proposals – during the previous review we changed over half of our initial proposals based on the feedback we received.”
Tim Bowden, Boundary Commission for England
The review is aiming to balance the numbers in each constituency by ensuring they all have similar amounts of voters.
Lichfield MP Michael Fabricant has already criticised the plans, branding them “a nonsense”. He said:
“In this proposal, the commission have announced that Whittington and Streethay should move into the Tamworth Parliamentary constituency while Wall and the villages of Summerhill and Chesterfield should be moved from Tamworth into Lichfield.
“This will make very little difference to the size of the Lichfield constituency, but suggesting the move of Streethay into Tamworth displays no knowledge of the area and is a rehash of their proposals made a few years back which were never enacted by Parliament.
“I shall oppose this. It divides Lichfield Trent Valley station in two and cuts off the eastern edge of Lichfield itself.
“Frankly, it’s a nonsense. It bears all the hallmarks of boundaries drawn in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Whitehall mapmakers in days of Empire without any knowledge or care of the regions and people concerned.”
Michael Fabricant MP
People can have their say on the proposals before midnight on 2nd August at bcereviews.org.uk.
I suggest they place a new boundary round Mr Fabricants house and he can vote and look after himself as he always does.
I’m all for it. From where I live I see it as a guaranteed way to get shot of Fabricant forever with the added bonus of knowing that I will also be free from the pathetic LDC.
Except you won’t be rid of LDC unless the council is closing…
@Why would etc… This is only the boundaries of your parliamentary constituency. You’ll still be in Lichfield District.
Thanks for clarifying the point about LDC. However the chance to be rid of our incompetent, lazy, self important and out of touch local MP is not to be missed. Just for those reasons alone, I for one will not be opposing this move but actually looking forward to it.
I too would not wish to oppose anything that frees people from being ‘represented’ by Fabricant. The man is a callous, preening buffoon. Shame for him that he’ll have to keep Burntwood and its Labour voters (shame for Burntwood too, obviously).
“Frankly, it’s a nonsense. It bears all the hallmarks of boundaries drawn in the 19th and 20th Centuries by Whitehall mapmakers in days of Empire without any knowledge or care of the regions and people concerned.”
Wow! Sounds like the MP & his mad govt. I support the boundary change & hope opposition sorts itself out so we can vote for one party to be rid of him as MP!