Community Governance Review - stage 2 - Maulden

Responses from consultation

Parish council: no proposal received

5 responses

Comments:

“The age profile of the PC does not fully reflect the Village community”

“We never see a Councillor and the PC never responds to correspondence”

“More Councillors might just improve communication”

“Maulden PC is uncommunicative and inward looking”

“Too many. Less would save money and those remaining should do more than they do already.”

Feedback received through the public consultation 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 Maulden should remain unchanged
2. that the number of parish councillors on Maulden Parish Council are reduced from 12 to 9

Reason for recommendations

The recommendation to reduce the number of councillors is made in accordance with the terms of reference due to the number of councillors being disproportionate to the electorate or to avoid uncontested elections and the subsequent need to co-opt members to fill the outstanding vacancies.