With a new county council due to start on 1 April, the Boundary Commission started a process of reviewing both the number of councillors the authority should have together with the wards.

We heard a couple of weeks ago that the Boundary Commission is ‘minded’ to agree to the number of councillors remaining at 126 and that is has started on the process of looking at ward boundaries.

This is a public process, and anyone can put in views to the Commission. More information can be found at their web site: www.boundarycommittee.org.uk The deadline for doing so is 8 June 2009.

Readers should be aware that a law is going through parliament that would result in any changes being implemented at the next ‘normal’ local election date for the council, which in our case is May 2013.