Statutory Review of Polling Districts and Polling Places

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Exeter City Council in pursuance of the powers conferred upon it by sections 18A to 18E of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended by the Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2013) shall undertake a review of the parliamentary polling districts and parliamentary polling places within its area.

The consultation period for this review will commence on the Monday, 10 June 2019 and end on Friday, 19 July 2019.

Any person or organisation wishing to make a representation in respect of the arrangement of polling districts and polling places within the boundary of Exeter City Council; must write to: Mr. Jeff Chalk, Polling District Review, Electoral Services Office, Exeter City Council, Paris Street, EXETER EX1 1JN or electoral.services@exeter.gov.uk by 19 July 2019.

The Council would welcome any person or body with expertise in access for persons with any type of disability to comment on the Acting Returning Officer’s representations or on any other matter. Where possible, people making representations should suggest alternative places that may be used as polling places.

This review will require submissions to be made by the Acting Returning Officers for the Exeter Constituency and the part of the East Devon Constituency within the Exeter City Council authority area. These submissions will be published and available for inspection at Civic Centre, Paris Street, Exeter EX1 1JN and at www.exeter.gov.uk no later than 26 July 2019.

The closing date for comments on any proposals set out in the Acting Returning Officers’ submissions is 9 August 2019. The Council will then consider the Acting Returning Officer’s recommendations together with any other representations made.

All submissions, correspondence, minutes and decisions relating to the review will be made public on the Council’s website as the review progresses. It is intended that the Council will publish its final proposals during November 2019.

Karime Hassan

Chief Executive & Growth Director

10 June 2019