A review of Buckinghamshire Council’s electoral arrangements has now concluded.
The changes, recommended by the Local Government Boundary Commission after several rounds of public consultation, have now been published.
Currently there are 147 Buckinghamshire councillors, with three councillors representing each of the 49 wards.
As from the May 2025 elections, there will be 97 councillors representing the same number of wards:
View the Commission’s overall map of the new arrangements (PDF 10.69MB). A full list of the new wards is at Appendix A of the Commission’s report (PDF 9.53MB).
The Local Government Boundary Commission is undertaking further consultation on new boundaries for four council wards in the south-east of Buckinghamshire. These wards are:
During consultation on the draft recommendations published on 2 August 2022, the Commission received 558 representations.
Most representations commented on the proposed Chalfont St Peter and Gerrards Cross & Denham wards.
A significant majority of these submissions expressed opposition. Many respondents provided a great deal of evidence describing their community to substantiate their opposition to the proposals.
As a result, the Commission has published further draft recommendations for these wards.
The Commission is not seeking submissions in regard to the rest of the authority.
The commission is proposing four wards in the south-east of the authority, consisting of two three-councillor wards and two two-councillor wards.
Proposed changes from the original draft proposals include:
For more information about the proposals, please see the draft recommendations report (PDF 1.1MB).
Before you respond to the consultation, please have a look at the following document:
You can tell the Commission your views in one of the following ways:
Please give your views by Monday 5 December 2022.
Once this consultation closes, the review will complete the following steps:
For more information about the review process for Buckinghamshire Council, please visit the Local Government Boundary Commission for England website.
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