The Boundaries Debate – Should South West Holderness Ward be included in the Hull East Parliamentary constituency?
| October 21, 2011 | Posted by Editor under Debate, South West Holderness |
Proposed East Hull Constituency including SW Holderness
THE DEBATE about changes to Parliamentary constituency boundaries comes to Hull next week as two days of Public Hearings take place.
The Review of the Parliamentary constituency boundaries sets out to reduce the number of constituencies and ensure that each contains a similar number of registered electors.
The purpose of the hearings is for people to have an opportunity to make representations orally to an Assistant Commissioner, who will chair the hearings and subsequently provide the Boundary Commission for England with a report on their findings.
A public hearing is open to everyone. However, if you wish to speak, you may register in advance. The BCE has produced some guidelines for those wishing to take part. See BCE – Public Hearings Information.
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Location: Hull City Hall, Queen Victoria Square, Hull, HU1 3RQ
Day 1: Monday, 24th October 2011
11am – 8pm
Day 2: Tuesday, 25th October 2011
9am – 5pm
In this area debate has raged over whether the South West Holderness ward should be moved into the East Hull Parliamentary constituency or not. Below HU12 attempts to summarise the arguments for and against the local proposals:
Should South West Holderness Ward be included in the Hull East Parliamentary constituency?
YES
- South West Holderness has an affinity with the City of Hull. People tend to work in the city and rely on it for key services not necessarily available in the East Riding;
- Hull has the potential to develop as a driving force within the renewables industry. South West Holderness will benefit from the development of the new Humber Enterprise Zone. It makes sense to be part of a Parliamentary constituency that covers the whole of the Enterprise Zone area and marry the economic and political factors that can contribute to its success;
- Political: Whilst South West Holderness has traditionally returned a Conservative MP, the likelihood increases of being part of a constituency that returns a Labour MP.
- Town and village communities have very little in common with those who inhabit urban areas. The problems facing the 11,000+ residents in SW Holderness are unique and would take second place to the very real needs of those 60,000+ living in Hull;
- Sense of place and identity: SW Holderness is part of the wider communities of Holderness. This change may lead eventually to the ward being swallowed up by Hull;
- Political: We would lose the services of a hard-working MP, Graham Stuart.
Holderness Diamond Jubilee Beacons
Fog lights theft – Bilton
Entertainment at the Humber Tavern, Paull… and a lost cat!
Breakfast Marketing Event for Small Businesses
Two Parish Councillors needed in Paull
Football School for 6 – 11 year olds
Pennies from Hedon
Humberside Police – Tackling speeding traffic and anti-social behaviour in Mid Holderness
Community Cycling with Sky Ride East Riding
Blue Flag Awards for Withernsea and Hornsea
The person/computer who came up with this proposal has done nothing more than cobble together an area to satisfy the numerical needs of having 76000 odd people in the constituency. No thought whatsover has been given to the practicalities of including S.W.Holderness with East Hull. With the MP having to deal with the myriad of urban issues, we out here in the entirely rural area of SWH will not be properly represented.
And of course don’t lose sight of the possiblility that, once we are ‘part of Hull’ in a constituency sense, what is there to prevent Hull making moves to take us over
Keep Holderness Together is the cry!!!
[...] And today we summarise the debate on the Boundary Changes as a ‘taster’ to some of the issues that may be discussed at the Public Hearings taking place next week. See: Should SW Holderness be included in the East Hull constituency? [...]