Local residents T-V submissions to the Hull City Council electoral review
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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan
From: Barbara TennantSent: 02 March 2017 11:48To: reviewsSubject: Proposed Boundary Change
To whom it may concern We wish to register our concern that the Commission is planning to merge Bricknell ward with Newland Avenue We feel the existing Bricknell Ward residents would be poorly represented by Council if part of the Newland Ward The existing ward is primarily residential owner owned were as Newland Ward have a lot of rented Properties & Retail, numerous Student & Ethnic Minority and their needs from council are entirely different from those in existing Bricknell Ward Yours Sincerely Barbara Tennant & Bernard Tennant
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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan
From: Pat Tharratt Sent: 01 March 2017 02:36To: reviewsSubject: Boundaries
I understand that you are seeking opinions on ward boundaries for Kingston Upon Hull. I live in the west of the city, Pickering Ward. I believe the Council's proposed boundary change would separate Pickering Park from another part. In my opinion this would be a great shame - Pickering Park, over 100 years old and the gift of a local philanthropist, currently is at the heart of the community, a well loved space with opportunities for exercise such as jogging, using an outdoor gym, equipment for older children (exercise through stealth as they do not realise that while they are playing) and team sports as well as areas for complete relaxation and contemplation. Local schools co-operate with one another, the ward has library facilities within its midst. The current Ward Councillors work hard on its behalf. In my opinion there should be no boundary changes unless or until there are great anomalies between wards. It may be classed as a paper exercise but would involve great expense in changing street guides, bus maps, Council stationery etc. In the old adage "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". For the majority of residents I suspect that it makes no difference to name or re-name the ward in which they live especially when there are more pressing items for expenditure such as road repairs, social care, social housing, resumption of longer hours for library openings, schools, street cleansing, drain dredging and clearance, more pedestrian crossings and other road safety measures, reduction in fly-tipping, restoration of in-patient care for mental health problems with required infrastructure, etc. Pat Tharratt
City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Barry ThomasE-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text:Leave Kingswood as it is .... I live on Kingswood not North Bransholme how dare councillors waste yet more money, and e need more morons to run your so called areas. Hull city council your a joke and I with many others will fight this you idiots We bought our property 1999 Kingswood no East West or North...., stop trying to validate jobs for the boys we've had enough Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded
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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan
From: Brian Tompsett Sent: 02 March 2017 23:29To: reviewsSubject: Comments of the Draft proposals for Hull City Council
The Review Officer (Hull) The Local Government Boundary Commission for England 14th floor, Millbank Tower London SW1P 4QP Dear Sirs, Re: Proposed Ward Boundaries for Hull City Council I wish to comment on the proposed ward boundaries for Hull City Council, with particular reference to Beverley Ward. I have lived in Beverley Ward for over 25 years and am very familiar with the community in this area. I am pleased to learn that the ward size with three councillors has been selected. We used to have three councillors in the past and it was quite satisfactory, and the cycle of elections was well understood. The community divisions within Hull as heavily influenced by geographic features. In particular the Beverlay Ward area is clearly marked out by the waterways of the River Hull on one side and Beverley and Barmstone drain on the other. The limited number of crossings dictates that children go to school within this zone and socialise within this zone. It does make what appears to be a long thin slice, but it is up and down Beverley Road that this community socialises, shops and identifies itself. We think North/South not East/West! In other wards where you have only two councillors I feel that large wards with three councillors would be better, but that wards boundaries should acknowledge the geographic features that mark community boundaries, and that it is better, in other places in the city to have two councillor wards when otherwise unconnected areas would be merged into a ward. I note that an area adjacent to Tesco's Supermarket (Ings Bridge Estate and Tudor Drive et. al.) have been included in Orchard Park. I know that these residents do not regard themselves as part of Orchard Park, which is seen as a different community area. At times when their polling station has been the other side of the Beck they often felt unable to travel there to vote. They more readily identify with Beverley Ward to the East of them or districts to the south. Making wards of appropriate number of electors is difficult, but I hope my comments and observations are useful to you. Yours sincerely, Eur Ing Brian C Tompsett MBCS CITP CEng
City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Sandra Torr E-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text:I do not want the Bricknell ward merging with the Newland ward, this area is residential area with very few rented properties. Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded
3rd March 2017
Review Officer (Hull),
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England,
14th Floor, Millbank Tower,
Millbank.
London SW1P 4QP
Dear Sir/Madam,
Comments on proposed boundary changes in West Hull
I moved to Hull in the early 1970s, and lived first in Beverley Ward, and thirty years ago I moved to the above
address which then was in the larger Newland Ward, now in the smaller Bricknell Ward. Friendships,
shopping, a wide range of church contacts, and ten years of volunteering for activities in many primary
schools across Hull, and membership of the Wyke Pact Board concerned with economic and employment
opportunities in the HU5 area means I do know the area well.
1. Proposed Wyke Ward. Re‐linking Bricknell Ward with the area of Newland Ward around Newland
Avenue to be a three councillor ward will work well. Ensuring Goddard Avenue, which has many
traffic problems, becomes the responsibility of the same ward councillors will expedite dealing with
problems which concern residents. Newland Avenue is a major shopping and now a leisure area for
a wide range of people. Bricknell Ward residents frequently shop or meet friends there. Bricknell’s
concern about lack of play spaces for children would be intensified if linked with the crowded
housing areas off Newland Avenue.
2. Beverley‐Sculcoates Ward. Creating a ward whose only geographical common feature is Beverley
Road, and which would stretch nearly three miles from north to south is the opposite of a
community. In this area there is no widely used common shopping centre, no Community Centre,
no primary school where children from across the ward might create family links. The three primary
schools: Stepney, St John’s Newland C.of E, and Parkstone are respectively about one mile and
three‐quarters of a mile apart. Socially the current area of Beverley ward is a residential area, mainly
owner occupied, with some rented accommodation around Beresford Avenue where many students
live. They relate to the University. The area currently in Newland Ward with housing extending east
to Ryde Avenue and west to Newland Avenue is a mixture of owner occupied, and recently, rented
housing, used by students, families and some asylum seekers and refugees. It is part of the
cosmopolitan area developing around Newland Avenue, with some links to the Beverley Road
stretch from the Haworth corner to Sculcoates. Maintaining community cohesion and respect for all
people, whatever their origin, is an important part of a councillor’s role here. The inclusion of the
Bridlington Avenue area, where nearly all the houses are originally for council tenants, and many still
are, brings in a very different community who see themselves are ‘almost city centre’. In terms of
shopping, an important feature, they may use Aldi, and the Beverley Road shops within ten minutes’
walk, but just as often go to the City Centre. Residents there would not feel part of a Cottingham
Road related area. It would be understandable if the councillors elected to a ward as strung out as
this took little interest in the electors in one part. It is likely to be the Bridlington Avenue area
residents who will be cut off from the structure of Myton Ward with which they identify. It would be
better that they remain so. The figures for electors in the Beverley‐Sculcoates Ward are much higher
than the variance recommended, whereas those for the Myton Ward as outlined are lower. Surely
this increases the need to re‐align this boundary?
I have seen the proposals which created a ward formed of the north of the current Beverley Ward
and Kingswood. This has the social and commercial communality found in many districts throughout
the UK with owner occupiers, many of whom do large shopping trips at the weekend, using their
cars. Building the Ennerdale Bridge, which I can remember in the 1970s and 1980s was campaigned
for by our councillors in Beverley Ward, has transformed much of north Hull. Kingswood Shopping
Centre and the entertainment and leisure places nearby are widely used by people across Hull and
surrounding areas. Many people in the HU5 and HU6 areas have known for years that North Point
Shopping Centre, Bransholme, gives an excellent range of choices, and we use Sutton Road Bridge to
get there. I am sure figures for the traffic which crosses these bridges daily because people are
employed in different parts of Hull, and/or have relatives and friends in different areas, have been
sent to you. To consider the river Hull, a small waterway, as a barrier to common interests is a
mistake. The restriction on bridge building rested on the legal requirement for bridges on the Hull to
either open or be high enough for shipping to pass through, and the investment costs of
construction. Your report states in points 32 and 33 states that the river Hull is perceived as a
cultural and social barrier. How do areas with rivers normally function? People cross the river for
trade, social life, and because they want to get to the other side! I grew up in Wearside, lived in
London and Tyneside, have family in Teesside. We were, and are, proud and thankful for our bridges
and get on with life. In the past 20 years I have experienced the value and ease of travel created by
the Ennerdale Bridge. It would be far more beneficial to residents and the general community to
build on the socio‐economic similarities of Kingswood and the north part of the current Beverley
Ward, and then re‐asses the common interests of the rest of the current Beverley Ward with the
Cottingham Road/University community with which it is more similar.
I hope you will make the everyday priorities of residents a priority in setting ward boundaries. I could
have made other comments, but felt it best to concentrate on areas which I have known for half my
life.
Yours truly,
Sylvia Usher
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Dear Review, I am writing to object to your new Ward plan for Beverley Road. As a long term resident of this part of North Hull for 32 years, it is clear the proposed Beverley and Sculcoates Ward is trying to seek to join areas that have nothing in common. As a Civil Servant who works in the City Centre, I cycle through Fountain Road. It is a City Centre Council Estate with little in common with the area above Clough Road. Residents here see themselves as City Centre residents. The top of Beverley Road is like Hull's suburbs, similar to Kingswood; full of owner occupiers, who drive. As a regular user of Beverley Road Baths it is clear that once you go south past Queens Road the area is very different in character. If you are trying to reflect the communities of Hull, you need to look again, and make this Ward far shorter in length. Thanks for taking the time to read this. Yours faithfully, Ms Kay Vandenbriele.
