Issue - meetings

To consider the proposals of the Electoral Review Steering Group for changes to Bracknell Forest’s polling districts and polling which would take effect from the publication of the revised register of electors on 1 December 2018.

RECOMMENDED  that:

 

Ward	Polling Districts
Ascot	WX; WY
Central Sandhurst	SP
Crown Wood	BF; WW
Crowthorne	CN
Great Hollands North	BH; BQ
Great Hollands South	BJ
Hanworth	BD; BK
Harmans Water	BL; BLP; WV
Little Sandhurst and Wellington	CS; SQ
Old Bracknell	BM; BN
Owlsmoor	SJ
Priestwood and Garth	BG; BP
Winkfield and Cranbourne	WN; WP; WS; WZ

      i)        no changes are made to the existing polling arrangements for the

following wards:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     ii)        the following changes are made to the Binfield with Warfield Ward:

 

a)    separate the southern area of the existing ‘BA’ polling district into a new polling district to be called ‘BI’. Shown in Annexe A  – Fig 1 of the Director of Resources report.

 

b)    separate the Amen Corner development from the ‘BA’ polling district and creating a new polling district to be called ‘BAC’. Shown in Annexe A – Fig 1 of the Director of Resources report.

 

c)    designate Newbold College as the polling station for the ‘BI’ new polling district.

 

d)    designate Farley Wood Community Centre is designated as the polling station for polling district ‘BAC’ with the electors for that polling district using the main hall at the Community Centre.

 

e)    Binfield Memorial Hall remains the polling station for the revised ‘BA’ polling

district.

 

f)     Farley Wood Community centre remains the polling station for the

unchanged ‘BB’ polling district with the electors concerned continuing to vote in the “Meeting Room” at the Community Centre.

 

g)    no changes are made to either polling districts ‘BB’ or ‘WM’, retaining

existing polling arrangements.

 

    iii)        the following change is made to the Bullbrook Ward:

 

a)    one additional polling station is created at Bullbrook Community Centre to

increase capacity at this polling place and reduce pressure on the two existing polling stations.

 

   iv)        the following change is made to the College Town Ward:

 

a)    designate the main sports hall at Sandhurst Secondary School as the default

polling station for electors in polling district ‘SO’. Should a scheduled exam clash with a polling day the existing arrangements at College Town Infants School would be reinstated.

 

    v)        the following changes are made to the Warfield Harvest Ride Ward:

 

a)    create a new polling district named ‘WE’ by splitting the existing ‘WG’ polling

district into two areas, as shown in Fig. 2 in Annexe A of the Director of Resources report.

 

b)    designate Westmoreland Pavilion as the polling station for the proposed ‘WE’

polling district.

 

c)    that voters in the revised ‘WG’ polling district continue to vote at Warfield

Community centre which would be a single polling station.

 

d)    that voters in the unchanged ‘WQ’ polling district continue to vote at Warfield

Community Centre.

 

   vi)        the following change is made to the Wildridings and Central Ward:

 

a)    designate the former Magistrates Court as the polling station for ‘BT’ electors for the 2019 elections.

 

b)    that subject to a re-evaluation by the Steering Group after planned renovation

work, for all subsequent polls, Bracknell Central Library is designated as the

polling station.