Local residents I-L submissions to the Hull City Council electoral review

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City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Simon JacksonE-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text:I am voting against the boundary changes as if It will have a detrimental price effect on my house and when we originally moved there is was called kingswood and should still stay kingswood as that what my deeds on the house say Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded

City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Jennifer JethwaE-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text:I am unable to draw on the map but I do not wish for kingswood to be split it needs to remain as one and be able to report the same problems etc and ask for help from the same councillor etc Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded

The Review Officer (Kingston upon Hull) Ryan Langley Local Government Boundary Commission for England 14th Floor, Millbank Tower L Millbank LONDON SW1P 4QP 5th March, 2017

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am writing to you as a resident of Hull living within the Pickering Ward area. I would like to express my support for the boundary proposals put forward by the LGBCE for Hull City Council.

I have lived and grown up in the Pickering Ward area all my life, I attended Tilbury Primary School as a child and frequently socialised with friends on Gower and Pickering Park.

Most of my family and friends live within the West Hull area and are spread across the Pickering, Boothferry and Derringham wards. My grandparents live locally on the Summergroves area and Boothferry Estate. My mother was married at St Nicholas Church and I was baptised at Askew Avenue Methodist Church.

This area has strong local communities that are tightly knitted together. They are served by frequent bus routes that interweave between the different communities and provide a service to the attached village of Hessle.

Pickering Park is the focal point for the community in this area it provides family fun days and community fetes during the summer. It is one of the few parks that people flock to during the summer because of its bird aviaries and paddling pool. It brings all of the communities in this area together.

The draft local government proposals for Hull, and in particular, for Pickering Ward make good sense. They are reflective of the communities that make up this ward and they will improve the provision of local government service by uniting the Gipsyville area.

Best wishes,

Mr Ryan A Langley

The Review Officer (Kingston upon Hull) Sophie Langley Local Government Boundary Commission for England 14th Floor, Millbank Tower L Millbank LONDON SW1P 4QP 5th March, 2017

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am a resident within the Pickering Ward of Hull and would like express my opinion on the proposed local government boundary changes.

I have lived in different parts of Pickering Ward all of my life such as Boothferry Estate and Hessle High Road. Most of my immediate family live here with my grandparents living within the Summergroves area and on Boothferry Estate.

As a child I attended Tilbury Primary School before moving onto Hessle High School. I played and socialised with friends on Pickering Park and Gower Park.

I have recently become a mother and I hope that my daughter will be schooled locally at Christopher Pickering Primary School. I hope that she will have the same learning opportunities I did, and that she will use the local parks and play with friends just as I once did.

Pickering Ward is served by a number of bus services that interlink the ward and provide transport to and from the adjoining East Riding village of Hessle. Many residents in this area of Hull frequently shop locally in Hessle and at the local supermarkets of Aldi and Sainsbury’s off Priory Way.

The draft proposals outlined by the Boundary Commission make sense. They maintain what is much of the area that surrounds Pickering Park – the focal point of the communities in this area – and unite the Gipsyville community once again.

Best wishes,

Miss Sophie E Langley

City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Jenny LangrickE-mail: Postcode: Organisation Name: Comment text:I belive that all of the Kingswood estate should remain in the Kingspark ward. As a resident of

I would be more interested in what the ward cllrs will be looking to do with the ood than the rest of North Bransholme. It seems odd to cut it off down the

middle of Kesteven Way. Can this please be re-considered? Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded

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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan

From: Jenny LangrickSent: 05 March 2017 20:32To: reviewsSubject: Hull boundary review - Kingspark

Dear Sirs, I would like to support the alternative boundary proposal put forward by the Kingswood Neighbourhood Network that supports the council's Kingswood Action Plan with regard to proposed changes to the Kings Park Ward boundary. As a resident of Kingswood for 16 years, starting on and now on , I thoroughly enjoy living on the estate and using the facilities. The thought of not being able to vote in my local election for councillors that will be working and making decisions on spending on the estate that I have resided for many years and do not plan on leaving is quite appalling. The suggested boundary change down the middle of a road (Kesteven Way) in the centre of an established estate is just bizarre. And to leave Sutton Park within the boundary again very strange as it is a totally separate housing area. I am very passionate about my estate and feel I would be being penalised for living on the 'other side of the road' to my neighbours and not being able to influence future decisions made on the estate. I know the Neighbourhood Network have campaigned for this and know the residents affected would also support the alternative suggestion. I would please appeal to your better nature and ask you to re-consider this ill-informed proposal and allow all of the Kingswood estate to remain as one. Regards, J.Langrick Sent from my iPhone

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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan

From: Heather Leyland Sent: 01 March 2017 17:15To: reviewsSubject: Keep Kingswood Together

To whom it may concern.  We have recently received a flyer stating that the Kingswood boundaries could possibly be changing. We were saddened to read this. We live on   which is to the East of Kesteven Way.  In May 2016 we moved to Hull from Stockport. We chose Kingswood because of the location, reputation that owning a house on Kingswood has.  We moved to Hull to be near to family and they advised us not to buy a house on Bransholme.  Now we know that each area have good and bad areas but we moved to get away from increasing anti social behaviour which then reflected on our house and car insurance being very expensive because of our postcode being inside a boundary that was classed as a bad area/ high crime rate. We had lived in the same house for 33 years and it was only over the last 10 years that the environment has changed. Which we accept can happen here on Kingswood or any where for that matter.  We have renewed our car insurance since moving and we have saved £60 because of the postcode. Our concern is this might all change if our postcode is changed to Bransholme area.  Maybe we are being very unfair to Bransholme but we are being honest with our feelings.  Please, please, please, keep Kingswood together as one area and one community sharing all the services and councillors.  Kind Regards Heather & Sel Leyland 

City of Kingston upon Hull Personal Details: Name: Karen LindleyE-mail: Postcode: Organisation NComment text:I believe that dividing Kingswood will have a significant effect on house prices around the Kesteven Way area as people will not want to pay decent money to live on a Council estate. I feel this will may make people move off the estate and let out their houses which is another problem in itself as we never know who we are going to get in next. Kesteven Way is already starting to look unkempt as it is and does not get as much care and attention as the newer side of Kingswood. I feel that if it does happen it will only get worse. Also, my husband and I did not save hard to live on a Council estate. Uploaded Documents:None Uploaded

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Carlsson-Hyslop, Dan

From: Howell A Lloyd Sent: 06 March 2017 14:36To: reviewsSubject: Proposed electoral arrangements for HullAttachments: ATT00001.txt

Follow Up Flag: Follow upFlag Status: Flagged

6 March 2017

To the Chair

Local Government Boundary Commission for England

Dear Sir

You invite submissions on the Commission’s ‘Draft Recommendations on the new electoral arrangements for Hull City Council’. I should therefore be obliged if you would kindly take account of the following observations on your recommendation for a ‘Beverley & Sculcoates’ ward, within the proposed boundaries of which my family and I have resided for many years.

I make these observations in the light of the criteria specified in paragraphs 70-73 of your draft report, and in particular the following:

‘Community identity: reflects the identity and interests of local communities ‘Reflect community interests and identities and include evidence of community links ‘Community identity:

o is there a parish council, residents’ association or other group that represents the area? o Interests: what issues bind the community together or separate it from

other parts of your area? o Identifiable boundaries: are there natural or constructed features which make

strong boundaries

‘Are any of the proposed wards too large or small to be represented effectively?’

Please allow me to say, plainly, that I cannot see how your proposals for ‘Beverley & Sculcoates’ satisfy any of these criteria. They revolve around the concept of ‘community’, the chief defining characteristic of which in your analysis would appear to be ‘interests’. Given this, at least three distinct ‘communities’ are identifiable within the proposed boundaries.

In the area north of Clough Road, in contrast with the areas to the south of Clough Road, and especially towards the southern end, there is a marked prevalence of owner-occupation and car ownership coupled with

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reliance for shopping purposes chiefly on the Kingswood retail complexes and the Orchard Park Tesco outlet. Schooling, an extremely important consideration for community identity, is provided at primary level by Endike, Parkstone and St Andrews, and at secondary level by Sirius Academy North and Newland High School. While all of these lie within easy walking distance, only one of them is situated within the proposed boundaries.

In the central part, between Wellesley Avenue and Sculcoates Lane, the population is fairly mixed, including a significant student population and much ethnic diversity. Privately rented accommodation is much more prevalent here, and car ownership is patchy. For shopping local residents turn to the local Lidl (sometimes also Aldi), the ethnic shops along Beverley Road, and the Newland Avenue shops. For the younger elements, venues in the Princes Avenue area provide facilities for a good deal of their social interaction. Again, reliance is considerable upon outlets beyond the presumed ‘natural or constructed’ boundaries of Beverley Road and the River Hull.

Thirdly, the habits and social character of the population of the southern end of the area differ radically from those of both of the foregoing. Here one finds many long-term, often elderly, residents whose presence in the area has deep roots in earlier generations of a relatively deprived population with substantial social needs, mainly catered for by the City Council. Here, as in the central section, owner-occupation is much lower than in the northern area.

As for the dimensions of the proposed ward, reliance upon the river and the main road as ‘natural and constructed’ boundaries results in a ward that abuts nine others, is nearly three miles long and is very narrow in many places. It is a ward of, to say the least, abnormal shape, encompassing so great a diversity of social groups as to suggest that insistence by the commission upon these boundaries would be quite incompatible with the surely prime desideratum of community cohesion, at least in the case of the ‘Beverley & Sculcoates’ ward.

In paragraph 77 of the draft recommendations the Commission undertakes that ‘in the light of representations received’ it will ‘review’ them and ‘consider whether they should be altered’. I greatly hope the Commission will do precisely this, for there can surely be little doubt that in at least one instance its analysis has produced a grotesque result.

Yours faithfully

Howell Lloyd

Professor Howell A. Lloyd Office: