Have your say on proposed changes to Eggington Parish boundary: stage two
Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Residents are being invited to have their say on proposed changes to Eggington Parish boundary during a second stage consultation until 30 March 2022.
Back in September last year, we first consulted residents on something called a community governance review for Eggington.
This review was triggered by a request from Leighton-Linslade Town Council.
A community governance review enables us (as a principal council) to review and put in place, or make changes to, community governance systems and structures e.g.by creating, merging, abolishing or changing parish or town councils in the review area.
In this initial stage of the process, the consultation focused on three options:
- option 1: Eggington Parish boundary remains unchanged.
- option 2: Leighton-Linslade Parish boundary is extended to incorporate certain areas of land and the Eggington Parish area would be reduced.
- option 3: a new parish is created (the process to create a new parish would follow on from this community governance review and would have several steps to it)
Feedback from local electors and other interested parties was considered by our General Purposes Committee this month. Taking this feedback into account, the committee recommended that, at the present time, the parish boundary of Eggington remains unchanged.
This second stage of consultation will be asking people to comment on whether they support this draft recommendation or not.
Find out more about the consultation.
Councillor Steve Dixon, our Executive Member for Sustainability and Transformation said:
Although it was very tight between two out of the three options, our recommendation is that, at the present time, the parish boundary of Eggington remains unchanged.
We really appreciated how many people shared their views during the first stage of this process. All that feedback was carefully considered and now we want to hear what you think about the resulting draft proposal – that at the current time, the parish boundary remains unchanged. We’ll be writing to local electors in Eggington again and there is a lot of information on our website. Please take the time to share your feedback again.
The consultation is open for 12 weeks until 30 March.