RESIDENTS just have a few days left to have their say on boundary changes to town council wards in Stourport and Kidderminster.
The alterations are due to take effect at their next elections (May 2027 and 2028 respectively).
It follows a Local Government Boundary Commission review of electoral arrangements for Worcestershire County Council.
Both town councils have asked Wyre Forest District Council to conduct a community governance review on these new warding arrangements.
The reviews will examine continuing to use the wards in the two towns that existed prior to the Boundary Commission’s review.
New boundaries
It was in October when Stourport-on-Severn Town Council resolved to ‘request Wyre Forest District Council to carry out a Community Governance Review to re-establish its ward boundaries’.
In the case of Kidderminster, that would involve using the same ward boundaries as those used by the district council.
Also in October, Kidderminster Town Council resolved the following:
For the Kidderminster Foreign Review – To support the proposal that the Kidderminster Town Council boundary should include the Habberley Road development which should be transferred to the town.
For Wolverley and Cookley – To call for redrawing of the boundary between Kidderminster and Wolverley and Cookley in two areas – 1. At Sion Hill, by bringing the site of the former school site into Kidderminster (Wildmoor Road) and 2. To also bring the development on Stourbridge Road (Albrighton Drive and Bowdler Close) into Kidderminster.
The council also resolved to call on Wyre Forest District Council to carry out a community governance review to re-establish common ward boundaries with those used for WFDC in Kidderminster and to make other changes to Kidderminster’s boundary so that it includes Kittiwake Drive, the whole of the Woven Oaks development and the developed areas comprising Finepoint Way and Zortech Avenue.
Anyone wanting to have their say on the proposals can visit: orlo.uk/UecLt to take part in a short survey.
The deadline for responses is 5pm on Wednesday, April 16.
