Reigate And Banstead Borough Council Public Notice Community Governance Review
REIGATE AND BANSTEAD BOROUGH COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE REVIEW
NOTICE is hereby given that Reigate and Banstead Borough Council will be undertaking a review of the governance
and electoral arrangements for parishes within the whole of the Reigate and Banstead area.
The aim of the review is to consider and bring about improved community engagement, better local democracy
and more effective and convenient delivery of local services, and to ensure that electors across the district are
treated equitably and fairly.
The review will be conducted in accordance with the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act
2007 and other relevant legislation. Regard will be given to the Guidance on community governance reviews
issued by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and the Local Government Boundary
Commission for England.
The council is required by the Act to ensure that community governance within the District area:
• Reflects the identities and interests of the local community; and
• Is effective and convenient.
In carrying out the review the council must also take into account:
• The impact of community governance arrangements on community cohesion; and
• The size, population and boundaries of a local community or parish.
It is for the council to decide how to undertake the review, but it must consult the local government electors
for the area under review and any other person or body (including a local authority) which appears to the council
to have an interest in the review.
The review is to be conducted in accordance with agreed Terms of Reference and Timetable which are available
on the Council’s website.
The review covers the whole borough and may consider one or more of the following:
• Creating, merging, altering or abolishing parishes;
• The naming of parishes and the style of new parishes;
• The electoral arrangements for parishes (the ordinary year of election; council size, the number of councillors
to be elected to the council, and parish warding); and,
•Grouping parishes under a common parish council.
If you would like to know more about the review please visit www.reigate-banstead.gov.uk/CGR or email
cgr@reigate-banstead.gov.uk.
19 June 2025
