Community Governance Review - stage 2 - Everton

Responses from consultation

Parish council: no proposals received

2 responses

Comments:

“Our Parish Council does an excellent job in looking after parishioners’ interests. Communicating to parishioners with regular news updates. Making sure everyone has a voice.”

Feedback received through the public consultation was mixed but generally indicated a preference to retain the current level of representation and to make no other changes. This view has been considered alongside the working group’s rationale to ensure that any final draft recommendation reflects the aims of the terms of reference as well as the views of the community.

Draft recommendations

  1. that the parish name of Eversholt should remain unchanged
  2. that the number of parish councillors on Eversholt Parish Council remain unchanged at 7

Reason for recommendations

The current arrangements reflect effective and convenient local government in addition to the current number of councillors being proportionate to the size of the area.

Parish and ward information (Everton)
Everton parish topic Value
Current number of councillors7
Working group proposed number of councillors7
Electorate as of 1 May 2025420
Current ratio of electors to councillors60
Forecast electorate for 2030459
Revised ratio of electors to councillors66
Seats and candidates
Number of seats 7
Number of candidates in 2023 6
Number of candidates in 2019 4
Number of candidates in 2015 9
Number of candidates in 2011 6