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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.

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