Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, subject to one modification, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the borough of Scarborough. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003.

The Secretary of State has decided that the ward for which the Commission proposed the name “Falsgrave” shall bear the name “Falsgrave Park”.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the borough and provides for the creation of twenty-five new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Articles 3 to 6 make electoral changes in the parishes of Filey, Glaisdale, Newby and Scalby and Whitby.

Article 7 revokes the Borough of Scarborough (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1977.

The areas of the new borough and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(3). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Scarborough Borough Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.