The Local Government Boundary Commission for England – Final recommendations for New Forest published – 11th January 2021
Today we published our final recommendations for future electoral arrangements for New Forest District Council.
We are proposing that New Forest District Council should have 48 councillors.
Those councillors should represent two three-councillor wards, 18 two-councillor wards and six single-councillor wards, across the district.
We are also proposing that the boundaries of all wards should change.
We have now completed our electoral review of New Forest.
We are extremely grateful to the people of New Forest who took the time and effort to send us their views.
We considered every piece of evidence we received before finalising our recommendations.
As a result of our recommendations for new warding patterns, we are making changes to the parish electoral arrangements for the following parish and town councils:
The changes we have proposed must now be approved by Parliament.
A draft Order – the legal document which brings into force our recommendations – will now be laid before Parliament. The draft Order will provide for new electoral arrangements for New Forest District Council to be implemented at the local elections in 2023