12-05-2025
Telford and Wrekin parish shake-up could create new councils
One parish council could be abolished and two new ones created as part of an electoral boundary and Wrekin Council's boundary review committee is looking to make changes to keep up with the evolving population in the the proposals Dawley Hamlets Parish Council would be broken up and its communities divided up and absorbed into surrounding and Muxton, which have both grown in recent years due to more houses being built, would get their own parish councils.
The committee said both had now become distinct areas and could be separated from St Georges and Georges and Donnington could then merge their councils to "share a common identity of being older, established communities in the borough with similar needs, demographics and identity".Telford and Wrekin Council is about to move on to a final round of consultation on the plans before the committee is called on to make final aim is to have the new boundaries agreed before local elections in proposals include merging Church Aston Parish Council with Chetwynd Ason and Woodcote, with part of the latter being added to Newport Town Council's committee noted that in recent years the two smaller councils had struggled to fill vacancies and that co-opting councillors "does not lend itself to efficient democracy".A number of other mergers have been proposed to combine:Oakengates with Wrockwardine Wood and TrenchHollinswood and Randlay Parish Council with Stirchley and Brookside Parish CouncilKynnersley Parish Council with Eyton and PrestonWrockwardine with Little Wenlock Other areas would be incorporated into different parish councils under the proposals.
This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.
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