Lewisham ward boundaries to be redrawn
The boundaries of all but two wards in Lewisham are set to be redrawn after a review by the Local Government Boundary Commission.
It says residents should be represented by 54 councillors – the same as current arrangements – but there will be 16 three-councillor wards and three two-councillor wards.
All wards will change, apart from Forest Hill and Telegraph Hill.
Commission chairman Professor Colin Mellors said: “We are very grateful to people in Lewisham.
“We looked at all the views they gave us. They helped us improve our earlier proposals.
“We believe the new arrangements will guarantee electoral fairness, while maintaining local ties.”
The review looked at 448 responses from people and organisations to help decide the new wards.
Changes in response to what local people said include:
The proposed New Cross ward will now be called ‘Deptford’.
Tanners Hill Estate will now be united in a single ward.
The new arrangements will then apply for the 2022 council elections if they are approved by Parliament.
Unfortunaly they are not going to reduced the number of councillors, but would rather cut the number of staff on front-line services and privatise services which don’t deliver the properly. They need to weed out the dead wood of councillors who do not response to residents concerns and reduced their special allowances and pay them the government minimum living wage. Also reduce them to 1.5 councillors per ward with one covering a ward and the other covering half their ward and half the neighbouring ward.
Also to my knowledge none of my local councillors live in my ward so they don’t know the local issues and only one of them is on the local forum. They should not be allowed to work at any other place of employment or be a company director.