Decision details

26.1   The report by the Director of Law and Assurance (copy appended to the signed minutes) on whether to recommend to the County Council that the Lindfield & High Weald electoral division, currently part of both the Central and South Mid Sussex County Local Committee (CLC) and the North Mid Sussex CLC, should be entirely within the North Mid Sussex CLC was withdrawn. 

26.2   The Committee was informed that when the changes had been approved in 2016 there had been a promise to consider whether any adjustment was required to the CLCs in Mid Sussex in the light of experience once the recommendations had been implemented.  That review would now be undertaken before any proposals for boundary changes were put before the Committee.  It was noted that the distances between towns set out in the Appendix to the report needed to be checked before the item was reconsidered.

26.3   The Leader said the offer to review the situation in Mid Sussex would be honoured but commented that the budget cuts which had led to the reduction in the number of CLCs had been implemented and staff resources had been reduced accordingly.  She also commented that, in terms of amount of business at meetings, recent topical issues in Mid Sussex which had been of significant public interest would inevitably have increased pressure on agendas.

26.4   The Chairman said a Governance Committee working group would be set up to look at the issues raised in relation to Mid Sussex and report back to the Committee in due course.

26.5  Resolved – That a working group be set up to look at the issues raised in relation to Mid Sussex and report back to the Committee in due course.