The Boundary Committee (BC) has just published its “Final Recommendations” for new Divisions to the new Wiltshire Council.

Despite a barrage of objections from Harnham Residents, they have confirmed their “Draft Recommendations” as “Final” and will split Harnham along Netherhampton, Harnham, New Harnham & Downton Rds.

The area to the South of this line will remain in Harnham, whilst the North will be ‘moved’ into St Martin & Cathedral; e.g Harnham Water Meadows, St Georges Church, the Old Mill, Rose & Crown Hotel etc will now be in St Martin!

You can read their final report here:  http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/boundary-reviews/all-reviews/south-west/wiltshire/wiltshire-electoral-review

I have always lived in West Harnham and this i believe is very bad news for our community.  We will now technically have a North & South Harnham.  So many residents had voiced this to me over the past few months.  I feel very sorry that i personally, was unable to do more.

I will be further pursuing this with the Electoral Commission, making further objections (the last hurdle) as the BC have supported a Division which will be 6.43% above their permitted tolerance.  This they have ignored and make no mention of it in their report.

I will be putting out a FOCUS leaflet to this area within the next few weeks.