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 Longtown 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, the Longtown Group Parish Council expressed an interest in separating the parish of Walterstone from the group and instead amalgamating Walterstone with Ewyas Harold Group Parish Council. Following confirmation of these proposals with Longtown Group, the parish council noted that at the parish council meeting on 20 September 2017 it was agreed that while the parish council could not formally request these changes without consulting the residents of Walterstone, but it can confirm that the reasons originally indicated are still relevant.

This initial stage of the review is to find out local views and assess what solutions are the right ones to pursue to a full proposals consultation.

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

Glossary of terms

Consultation responses

You can view the consultation responses.

Information sheet

Review timetable