Explanatory note

This Order gives effect to recommendations by the Local Government Commission for England for electoral changes in the district of South Somerset.

Article 2 abolishes all of the existing wards of the district and provides for the creation of 39 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 abolishes the existing wards of the parish of Chard and provided for the creation of five new wards each with 3 councillors.

Article 4 and Schedule 2 abolishes the existing wards of the parish of Yeovil and provides for the creation of four new parish wards each with 6 councillors, which are described in Schedule 2.

Articles 5 to 9 divide each of the parishes of East Coker, Huish Episcopi, Mudford, Stoke sub Hamdon and West Coker into two new parish wards; the attached Schedules 3 to 7 respectively describe the areas of the new wards and the number of councillors for each ward.

The areas of the new district 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 South Somerset District Council and at the offices of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions which are located at 2nd Floor, Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE.