CGR Terms of Reference 2021-2022
What is a Community Governance Review?
A Community Governance Review (CGR) is a review of the whole or part of the Council's area to consider one of more of the following:
- Creating, merging, altering or abolishing parishes;
- The naming of parishes and styles of new parishes;
- The electoral arrangements of parishes (including the number of councillors to be elected to the council and parish warding);
- Grouping or de-grouping parishes.
The Council is required to ensure that community governance within the area under review will be:
- Reflective of the identities and interests of the community in that area; and,
- Is effective and convenient.
In doing so, the community governance review is required to take into account:
- The impact of community governance arrangements on community cohesion; and,
- The size, population and boundaries or a local community or parish.