Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, on 1st April 2001, to parish boundary recommendations made by Hart District Council. Subject to that, it also gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England (“the LGC”) for electoral changes in the district of Hart. Those changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 2nd May 2002.

Article 2 transfers one small area of land from the parish of Blackwater and Hawley to the parish of Hartley Wintney; one small area from the unparished area to the parish of Blackwater and Hawley; one small area from the unparished area to the parish of Hartley Wintney and one small area from the parish of Hartley Wintney to the unparished area. The Order gives effect to the recommendations of the LGC for the district wards of Blackwater and Hawley, Hartley Wintney and Fleet North subject to the modifications consequent upon these transfers.

Article 3 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of eighteen new wards. That article and Schedule 1 also make provision for the names and areas of, and numbers of councillors for, the new wards.

Article 4 makes provision for a whole council election in 2002 and for reversion to elections by thirds in subsequent years. Schedule 2 regulates the order of retirement of councillors.

Articles 5 to 7 make electoral changes in the parishes of Blackwater and Hawley, Crookham Village and Yateley.

Article 8 provides for elections of parish councillors in the district.

Article 9 revokes the District of Hart (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1976.

The areas of the new district and parish wards are demarcated on the map described in article 1(6). Prints of the map may be inspected at all reasonable times at the offices of Hart District 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.