Explanatory note

This Order gives effect, with modifications, to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of Salisbury. The changes have effect in relation to local government elections to be held on and after 1st May 2003. The modifications relate to the names of the wards now designated Laverstock, St Martin and Milford, and Lower Wylye and Woodford Valley.

Article 2 abolishes the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 28 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 3 to 5 make electoral changes in the town of Amesbury, and in the parishes of Laverstock and Redlynch.

Article 6 revokes the District of Salisbury (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1975.

The areas of the new district, town, 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 Salisbury 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.