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(1) This Order may be cited as the County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.
(2) This Order shall come into force—
(a) for the purpose of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 3rd May 2001, on 10th October 2000;
(b) for all other purposes, on 3rd May 2001.
(3) In this Order—
 “county” means the county of Cheshire;
 “existing”, in relation to a division or ward, means the division or ward as it exists on the date this Order is made;
 references to wards, unless the context otherwise requires, are references to borough, city and district wards in the county; and
 any reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the County of Cheshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994.
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(1) The existing divisions of the county shall be abolished.
(2) The county shall be divided into fifty-one divisions which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The divisions shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of that Schedule by reference to wards or wards and parishes, or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the division and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each division shall be one.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
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The County of Cheshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
11th September 2000
SCHEDULE
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(1) (2)
Name of Division Area of Division
In the city of Chester
Blacon The Blacon Hall and Blacon Lodge wards
Boughton Heath and Vicars Cross The Boughton Heath, Dodleston, Huntington and Vicars Cross wards
Broxton The Farndon, Malpas, Tattenhall and Tilston wards
City The Boughton, City and St Anne’s and College wards
Gowy The Christleton, Kelsall, Tarvin and Waverton wards
Hoole and Newton
Mickle Trafford The Barrow, Elton, Mickle Trafford, Mollington and Saughall wards
Overleigh The Curzon and Westminster, Handbridge and St Mary’s and Lache Park wards
Upton
In the borough of Congleton
Alsager The Alsager Central, Alsager East and Alsager West wards
Congleton Rural The Brereton, Dane Valley and Holmes Chapel wards and the parishes of Hulme Walfield, Smallwood, Somerford and Somerford Booths
Congleton Town East The Buglawton, Congleton North and Congleton South wards and the parishes of Moreton-cum-Alcumlow and Newbold Astbury
Congleton Town West The Congleton Central, Congleton North West and Congleton West wards
Middlewich The Middlewich Cledford and Middlewich Kinderton wards
Sandbach The Sandbach North and Sandbach West wards
Sandbach East and Rode The Lawton, Odd Rode and Sandbach East wards
In the borough of Crewe and Nantwich
Cholmondeley The Acton, Audlem, Bunbury, Minshull, Peckforton and Wrenbury wards
Crewe East The Delamere, Maw Green and Waldron wards
Crewe North The Coppenhall, Grosvenor and Leighton wards
Crewe South The Alexandra, St John’s and Valley wards
Crewe West The St Barnabas and Wistaston Green wards
Doddington The Englesea, Haslington and Wybunbury wards
Nantwich The Barony Weaver, Birchin and Wellington wards
Rope The St Mary's, Shavington, Wells Green and Willaston wards
In the borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston
Central and Westminster
Grange and Rossmore
Groves and Whitby The Groves, Strawberry Fields and Whitby wards
Ledsham and Willaston The Burton and Ness, Ledsham and Willaston and Thornton wards
Neston and Parkgate The Little Neston, Neston, Parkgate and Riverside wards
Sutton and Manor The Pooltown, Sutton and Sutton Green and Manor wards
In the borough of Macclesfield
Alderley The Alderley Edge, Fulshaw and Henbury wards and the Nether Alderley parish
Bollington and Disley The Bollington Central, Bollington East, Bollington West, Disley and Lyme Handley, and Rainow wards
Broken Cross The Macclesfield Bollinbrook and Macclesfield Broken Cross wards
Bucklow The High Legh, Mere, Mobberley and Plumley wards and the parishes of Chelford, Great Warford and Snelson
Knutsford The Knutsford Bexton, Knutsford Nether, Knutsford Norbury Booths and Knutsford Over wards
Macclesfield Forest The Gawsworth, Macclesfield Ryles, Macclesfield South and Sutton wards
Macclesfield Town
Macclesfield West
Poynton The Poynton Central, Poynton East and Poynton West wards
Prestbury and Tytherington The Maccelsfield Tytherington and Prestbury wards
Wilmslow North The Dean Row and Handforth wards
Wilmslow South The Hough, Lacey Green and Morley and Styal wards
In the borough of Vale Royal
Abbey The Davenham and Moulton, and Hartford and Whitegate wards
Eddisbury The Cuddington and Oakmere, Mara and Tarporley and Oulton wards
Frodsham and Helsby The Frodsham North, Frodsham South and Helsby wards
Marbury The Barnton, Cogshall, Lostock and Wincham and Seven Oaks and Marston wards
Northwich East and Shakerley The Northwich Witton, Rudheath and South Witton and Shakerley wards
Northwich West The Leftwich and Kingsmead, Northwich Castle and Northwich Winnington wards
Weaver The Forest, Kingsley, Milton Weaver and Weaverham wards
Winsford North and East The Winsford Gravel, Winsford Verdin, and Winsford Wharton wards
Winsford South and West The Winsford Dene, Winsford Over and Winsford Swanlow wards