Brockhampton Group community governance review

A community governance review is carried out to consider arrangements for parish councils such as creating, merging, altering or abolishing parish councils, changing a parish council's boundary or the naming of parish councils and their electoral arrangements.

This round of community governance reviews has now been concluded. You can read and listen to the council's decision to agree the recommendations.

Why are we proposing a community governance review for Brockhampton Group Parish Council?

As part of a county wide consultation with parishes in 2016, a number of parishes came forward to highlight that they wished to either increase or decrease the number of seats on their parish council.

During that consultation, Brockhampton Group Parish Council considered this at their meeting on 21 September 2017 and formally resolved to ask for the community governance review as they have great difficulty filling all available seats as all of the parishes within the group have very small populations. It was proposed that the number of seats within the group could be reviewed so as to better reflect the number of electors, which would address the issue and strengthen the democratic process.

The terms of reference contains further information about the review and was approved by Council on 13 October 2017.

Glossary of terms

Consultation phases

Phase 2 consultation closed on 29 June 2018

You can download the responses to the phase 1 and phase 2 consultations.

Information sheet

Review timetable

Action By when
Action: Terms of reference presented to Council By when: 13 October 2017
Action: Publish terms of reference By when: 11 December
Action: Initial consultation period By when: 11 December 2017 to 1 February 2018
Action: Consultation phase 1 By when: 1 February to 6 April 2018
Action: Prepare draft proposals and recommendations By when: 6 April to 10 May 2018
Action: Consultation phase 2: Draft proposals and recommendations By when: 11 May to 29 June 2018
Action: Presentation of proposals By when: 29 June to 1 July 2018
Action: Prepare final proposals By when: 2 July to 31 July 2018
Action: Internal consultation and sign-off report By when: August/September 2018
Action: Report to Council By when: Report published five days before Council, October 2018
Action: If required - organisation of Community Governance Order By when: To be advised