Boundary review: big changes to proposed new constituencies for Preston, Chorley and South Ribble amid objections to previous plans
, Katherine Fletcher, was sanguine about the changes now proposed in her patch, which are fewer than initially planned, but would still see areas including Tarleton, Hesketh-with-Becconsall, North Meols and Rufford move into the Southport constituency. Under the plans, two Chorley wards would also be retained in their current position within the South Ribble constituency, but across a slightly different footprint as result of their realignment with council ward boundaries.
Sir Mark Hendrick's Preston constituency had been set to lose the Fishwick & Frenchwood and Ribbleton wards The previous proposals would have seen the Rossendale and Darwen constituency renamed West Pennine Moors and draw in the Adlington & Anderton and Chorley North East wards from the Chorley borough, as well as two Hyndburn wards.As the Post revealed last year, there was strong opposition to that move from members of Chorley Council, with deputy leader Peter Wilson decrying the potential breaking away of Adlington, which he said had been part of Chorley for more than a century.
The proposed Chorley seat will fall wholly within the Chorley Council area – although it will not incorporate all of its wards.It was previously proposed that parts of the Preston City Council patch that currently sit within the Wyre and Preston North parliamentary area should become part of the Preston seat. That would have seen the Cadley, Garrison, Greyfriars and Sharoe Green wards make the move into the main city constituency.
Assistant commissioners assessing the feedback on the initial proposals visited the area and concluded that the Fishwick & Frenchwood and Ribbleton wards were “undeniably part of the core of urban Preston and…of a similar character to the city centre”. The constituency would also keep hold all the wards currently within the constituency that sit in the South Ribble council area, along with the Farington
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