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vileplume
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« on: August 06, 2016, 09:17:39 PM »
« edited: August 07, 2016, 10:26:14 AM by vileplume »

The review is under way. There is already plenty of discussion in the UK at http://vote-2012.proboards.com/board/2/boundaries and the official website (containing the rules and data) is at http://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/

If you have a feeling of deja vu, it's because the UK had a similar review 5 years ago, but it was eventually shelved.

Thanks for posting here are a few points though as some of those suggestions are a complete non starters.

The primary aims of the commission is first and foremost to avoid crossing county line except where they absolutely are forced to (they would spit wards ahead of crossing county lines), for example Northumberland can have exactly three seats so that is what it will get, your plan crosses into Newcastle twice(!) which is simply not allowed.

Secondly the commission prefers to create as minimal disruption as possible so the more seats that can be left alone or only suffer minimal changes the better, redrawing seats when you don't have to is not allowed. For example your plans in West Sussex and Surrey make completely
Oh and crossing regional boundaries is never, ever allowed under any circumstances e.g trying to unnecessary changes when all that needs to happen is a couple of wards shifted here and there. Essentially with Surrey you can leave every seat completely alone except Spelthorne, Runnymede and Weybridge, and Esher and Walton.

When drawing a plan the best way to think to do it is to firstly think how can you avoid crossing county boundaries (sometimes unavoidable) and secondly how can you get all the seats within the quota by making as few changes as possible (this is easier to do in non metropolitan areas due to the wards typically being smaller).
pair bits of Northamptonshire with part of Milton Keynes. The only allowed solution for MK is to transfer 2 wards (probably Bletchley East and Bletchley Park) to Buckingham.
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vileplume
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« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2016, 07:56:11 AM »

Boundary commission recommending Corbyn's seat of Islington North to get the chop apparently.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyns-islington-north-seat-to-vanish-from-map-under-tories-planned-boundary-changes-a3342936.html
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