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1 (ITEM 6) PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES REVIEW COMMITTEE 2 JULY 2003 REVIEW OF PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES (Acting Director of Corporate Services – Legal) 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Boundary Commission for England has recently completed and published its review of Parliamentary constituencies for Berkshire. A one month period of public consultation commenced on 19 th June 2003. Accordingly, any objections have to be lodged with the Boundary Commission by 19 th July 2003. 1.2 This Committee has been set up to review the Commission’s proposals and to formulate representations (if any) to be made on behalf of the Council to the Boundary Commission by the deadline date. 2 RECOMMENDATION 2.1 The views of the Committee are requested. 3 SUPPORTING INFORMATION 3.1 The News Release, which contains the Commission’s proposals, together with other background information, is attached at Annex A. A more detailed map provided by the Commission will be available at the meeting. 3.2 The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (“the Act”) requires the Boundary Commission to conduct a general review of all the constituencies in England every eight to twelve years. The current review has to be completed between April 2003 and April 2007. 3.3 The Commission is required to adhere to the Rules for the Redistribution of Seats (Schedule 2 to the Act) which provide for: A specified number of constituencies in Great Britain (not substantially more than 613) (Rule 1) Each constituency to return a single member (Rule 2) The whole of the City of London to comprise a constituency (Rule 3) so far as practicable constituencies should not cross County boundaries (N.B. the areas of the individual Berkshire Unitary Authorities are not Counties) (Rule 4) the electorate of any constituency shall be as near the electoral quota (total electorate divided by number of Parliamentary constituencies) as practical (Rule 5)

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PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES REVIEW COMMITTEE2 JULY 2003

REVIEW OF PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARIES(Acting Director of Corporate Services – Legal)

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Boundary Commission for England has recently completed and published itsreview of Parliamentary constituencies for Berkshire. A one month period of publicconsultation commenced on 19th June 2003. Accordingly, any objections have to belodged with the Boundary Commission by 19th July 2003.

1.2 This Committee has been set up to review the Commission’s proposals and toformulate representations (if any) to be made on behalf of the Council to theBoundary Commission by the deadline date.

2 RECOMMENDATION

2.1 The views of the Committee are requested.

3 SUPPORTING INFORMATION

3.1 The News Release, which contains the Commission’s proposals, together with otherbackground information, is attached at Annex A. A more detailed map provided bythe Commission will be available at the meeting.

3.2 The Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 (“the Act”) requires the BoundaryCommission to conduct a general review of all the constituencies in England everyeight to twelve years. The current review has to be completed between April 2003and April 2007.

3.3 The Commission is required to adhere to the Rules for the Redistribution of Seats(Schedule 2 to the Act) which provide for:

• A specified number of constituencies in Great Britain (not substantially morethan 613) (Rule 1)

• Each constituency to return a single member (Rule 2)• The whole of the City of London to comprise a constituency (Rule 3)• so far as practicable constituencies should not cross County boundaries (N.B.

the areas of the individual Berkshire Unitary Authorities are not Counties) (Rule4)

• the electorate of any constituency shall be as near the electoral quota (totalelectorate divided by number of Parliamentary constituencies) as practical (Rule5)

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3.4 The Berkshire Unitary Authorities do not have the legal status of Counties andtherefore do not fall within the scope of Rule 4 of the Act. The Commission does not,therefore, have to have regard to the boundaries of those authorities, and hasprovisionally decided to review the six unitary authorities as one review area.

3.5 Rules 1, 2 and 5 determine that the review area has a theoretical entitlement to 8.31seats/constituencies.

3.6 The only other changes to local authority boundaries in Berkshire since the lastParliamentary review have been to ward boundaries following the Periodic ElectoralReviews. These reviews have resulted in a number of wards in Berkshire beingdivided between constituencies. As the Commission does not divide wards betweenconstituencies, this review realigns the constituency boundaries with the new wardboundaries to place wards wholly within seats.

3.7 The electoral quota (Rule 5) provides that the average electorate of each of thoseconstituencies should therefore be 69,934.

4. Commission’s Proposals

4.1 Bracknell Constituency currently includes three wards of Wokingham DistrictCouncil, namely Finchampstead North and South and Wokingham Without. Thewhole of the parish of Winkfield is currently included in the Windsor Constituency.

4.2 As the existing Parliamentary boundaries have electorates of significant disparity(Maidenhead being the smallest with 68,536 and Bracknell being the largest with81,843), the Commission is proposing “minor” changes to existing constituencyboundaries across the six unitary authority areas. As far as Bracknell Constituencyis concerned, the proposals are:

• To include the divided wards of Crown Wood and Harmans Water wholly withinthe Bracknell Constituency; and

• In order to reduce the size of the Bracknell constituency, the BoundaryCommission proposes that the Wards of Binfield with Warfield, Warfield HarvestRide, and Winkfield and Cranbourne should fall within the Windsor constituency.

• The three wards of Wokingham District Council currently within the BracknellCounty Constituency (CC) to remain.

5. Representations

5.1 Representations may be made within one month of the publication of the provisionalrecommendations ie by 19 July 2003. Where objections are received from adistrict/borough or Unitary Council or a body of one hundred or more electors, theCommission cannot proceed with their final recommendations to the Secretary ofState until a local Inquiry has been held. If the Commission decides to alter itsrecommendations as a result, the revised recommendations must also be publishedand representations invited, although a further local inquiry is not obligatory.

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5.2 Rules 6 and 7 enable the Commission to depart from the Rules “if specialgeographical considerations, including in particular the size, shape and accessibilityof a constituency, appear [to the Boundary Commission] to render a departuredesirable” or to allow account to be taken of “inconveniences and local ties whichwould be broken by an alteration of Parliamentary boundaries” which would arisefrom applying the Rules.

5.3 In making their proposals for Bracknell CC, the Commission acknowledges that it is“possible that the wards of Binfield with Warfield and Warfield Harvest Ride haveclose ties with the town of Bracknell”. The Commission nevertheless concluded thattheir transfer was necessary “to reduce the very high electorate of Bracknell CC”.

5.4 Anyone making representations is asked to state whether they approve of or objectto the proposals and to give reasons. In particular, objectors are advised to saywhat they propose in place of the Commission’s recommendations. TheCommission has indicated that an objection accompanied by a counter proposal islikely to carry more weight that a simple statement of objection. Any solution notfound from within Bracknell Borough would obviously have a knock-on effect withthe other Berkshire constituencies.

6. ADVICE OF STATUTORY AND OTHER OFFICERS

Borough Solicitor

6.1 The advice of the Borough Solicitor has been incorporated into this report.

Borough Finance Officer

6.2 There are no immediate financial implications.

Access Implications

6.3 None

Background Papers

News Release dated 11th June 2003 issued by the Boundary Commission for England.

Contact for Further Information

Alex Jack (01344 355679)[email protected]

Daphne Gray (01344 352024)[email protected]

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ANNEX A

Boundary Commission for England PO Box 31060 London SW1V 2FF( 020 7533 5177 Fax 020 7533 5176 GTN 3042 5177

e-mail [email protected] Web Site http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/

Boundary Commission for England

News ReleaseIssued by the Telephone 020 7533 5173Boundary Commission for England or 020 7533 5164PO Box 31060 Fax 020 7533 5176LondonSW1V 2FF Date 11 June 2003

PROPOSALS FOR PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCY BOUNDARIES INBERKSHIRE

The Commission will publish provisional recommendations on 19 June 2003 for changes to alleight existing constituencies in the area covered by the former County of Berkshire.

Provisional Recommendations

1. Following the Berkshire (Structural Changes) Order 1996, which came into effect on 1 April1998, the Boroughs of Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, and theDistricts of West Berkshire and Wokingham acquired unitary authority status and ceased to formpart of the county of Berkshire. However, the unitary authorities do not have the legal status ofcounties and, therefore, do not fall within the scope of Rule 4 of Schedule 2 of the ParliamentaryConstituencies Act 1986. The Commission are not, therefore, required to have regard to theboundaries of the unitary authorities in the former county of Berkshire, when considering thedistribution of constituencies. They have provisionally decided to review the six unitaryauthorities as one review area.

2. The boundary of the Borough of Slough was altered on 1 April 1995 to include parts of thecounties of Buckinghamshire and Surrey. This led to an alteration of parliamentary constituencyboundaries following an interim review in 1998, which took effect at the general election in June2001. The only other changes to local authority boundaries in Berkshire since the last generalreview have been to ward boundaries following the Periodical Electoral Reviews by theBoundary Committee for England.

3. The new wards in the unitary authorities came into effect on 1 May 2003 or will come intoeffect on 6 May 2004. These reviews have resulted in ten of the new wards in Berkshire beingdivided between constituencies. The Commission do not divide wards between constituenciesand their proposals will therefore realign the constituency boundaries with the new wardboundaries to place wards wholly within seats.

4. Berkshire currently has eight constituencies with a 2000 parliamentary electorate of 581,241.This number of electors, when divided by the 2000 electoral quota (69,934), gives a theoreticalentitlement to 8.31 seats. The electoral quota is explained in “Rules” below. The existing eightconstituencies have electorates ranging from 68,536 in Maidenhead CC to 81,843 in BracknellCC, a disparity of 13,307.

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5. The Commission propose to recommend only minor changes to the existing constituencyboundaries. They propose to reduce the electorate of Newbury CC by including the West BerkshireDistrict ward of Aldermaston and the whole of the divided ward of Sulhamstead in WokinghamCC. They also propose to increase the electorate of Wokingham CC by transferring the WestBerkshire District ward of Theale from Reading West CC, with the M4 motorway forming a clearboundary between the two seats.

6. The Commission propose to include the divided Reading Borough wards of Battle andWhitley wholly in Reading West CC. They propose to include the whole of the dividedWokingham District ward of Loddon in Reading East BC. No further changes are proposed toReading East BC, Reading West CC or Wokingham CC.

7. The Commission propose to include the divided Bracknell Forest Borough wards of CrownWood and Harmans Water wholly in Bracknell CC. They also propose to include the BracknellForest Borough wards of Binfield and Warfield, and Warfield Harvest Ride and the whole of thedivided Winkfield and Cranbourne ward in Windsor CC. The Commission noted that it waspossible that the wards of Binfield and Warfield, and Warfield Harvest Ride had close ties withthe town of Bracknell, but considered that their transfer was necessary to reduce the very highelectorate of Bracknell CC.

8. The Commission propose to increase the electorate of Maidenhead CC by transferring theWindsor and Maidenhead Borough ward of Bray from Windsor CC. They also propose to includethe divided Slough Borough wards of Foxborough, Kedermister, and Upton wholly in SloughBC. The overall effect of these changes is to reduce the existing disparity from 13,307 to 4,522.

9. The proposed new constituencies are illustrated in outline on the sketch map which forms part ofthis document (please note the copyright warning below concerning the map). The letters on the maprefer to the districts, and the numbers refer to the district wards. The map is to be used in conjunctionwith the ward listing at the end of this document which shows the letters and districts, the numbersand wards, and the 2000 ward electorates on which the Commission are required by law to work.

10. The composition of the provisionally recommended eight constituencies would be (the 2000electorates are shown in brackets):-

BRACKNELL COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (74,307). Fourteen wards of the Borough ofBracknell Forest:- Bullbrook, Central Sandhurst, College Town, Crown Wood, Crowthorne,Great Hollands North, Great Hollands South, Hanworth, Harmans Water, Little Sandhurst andWellington, Old Bracknell, Owlsmoor, Priestwood and Garth, Wildridings and Central; threewards of the District of Wokingham:- Finchampstead North, Finchampstead South, WokinghamWithout.

MAIDENHEAD COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (73,868). Ten wards of the Borough of Windsorand Maidenhead:- Belmont, Bisham and Cookham, Boyn Hill, Bray, Cox Green, Furze Platt,Hurley and Walthams, Maidenhead Riverside, Oldfield, Pinkneys Green; six wards of the Districtof Wokingham:- Charvil, Coronation, Hurst, Remenham, Wargrave and Ruscombe, Sonning,Twyford.

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NEWBURY COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (72,805). Twenty wards of the District of WestBerkshire:- Basildon, Bucklebury, Chievely, Clay Hill, Cold Ash, Compton, Downlands,Falkland, Greenham, Hungerford, Kintbury, Lambourn Valley, Northcroft, St Johns, Speen,Thatcham Central, Thatcham North, Thatcham South and Crookham, Thatcham West, Victoria.

READING EAST BOROUGH CONSTITUENCY (72,834). Nine wards of the Borough ofReading:- Abbey, Caversham, Church, Katesgrove, Mapledurham, Park, Peppard, Redlands,Thames; three wards of the District of Wokingham:- Bulmershe and Whitegates, Loddon, SouthLake.

READING WEST COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (70,078). Seven wards of the Borough ofReading:- Battle, Kentwood, Minster, Norcot, Southcote, Tilehurst, Whitley; five wards of theDistrict of West Berkshire:- Birch Copse, Calcot, Pangbourne, Purley on Thames, Westwood.

SLOUGH BOROUGH CONSTITUENCY (73,627). Thirteen wards of the Borough of Slough:-Baylis and Stoke, Britwell, Central, Chalvey, Cippenham Green, Cippenham Meadows, Farnham,Foxborough, Haymill, Kedermister, Langley St.Mary's, Upton, Wexham Lea.

WINDSOR COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (69,785). Four wards of the Borough of BracknellForest:- Ascot, Binfield and Warfield, Warfield Harvest Ride, Winkfield and Cranbourne; oneward of the Borough of Slough:- Colnbrook with Poyle; thirteen wards of the Borough ofWindsor and Maidenhead:- Ascot and Cheapside, Castle Without, Clewer East, Clewer North,Clewer South, Datchet, Eton and Castle, Eton Wick, Horton and Wraysbury, Old Windsor, Park,Sunningdale, Sunninghill and South Ascot.

WOKINGHAM COUNTY CONSTITUENCY (73,937). Five wards of the District of WestBerkshire:- Aldermaston, Burghfield, Mortimer, Sulhamstead, Theale; thirteen wards of theDistrict of Wokingham:- Arborfield, Barkham, Emmbrook, Evendons, Hawkedon, Hillside,Maiden Erlegh, Norreys, Shinfield North, Shinfield South, Swallowfield, Wescott, Winnersh.

11. The wards upon which the Commission based their provisional recommendations werecreated by the following Orders, which came into effect, or will come into effect, on the dateshown in brackets:-

The Borough of Bracknell (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (1 May 2003).The District of West Berkshire (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (1 May 2003).The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (Electoral Changes) Order(1 May 2003).

The Borough of Reading (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (6 May 2004).The Borough of Slough (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (6 May 2004).The District of Wokingham (Electoral Changes) Order 2002 (6 May 2004).

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Publication of Provisional Recommendations

12. The provisional recommendations will be published formally in a notice appearing in localnewspapers in Berkshire on 19 June 2003. Local Authorities, MPs, the Political PartiesHeadquarters, and others will be sent a copy of the recommendations. The notice will also bepublished on the Commission’s web site at:-

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/

Places of Inspection

13. The notice in local newspapers will also give the addresses where a copy of therecommendations and a more detailed map illustrating them, may be inspected once the noticehas been published in the local newspapers on 19 June 2003 (please note the copyright warningbelow concerning the map). Those addresses are:-

BRACKNELL Council Offices, Easthampstead House, Town Square, BracknellBURGHFIELD Burghfield Common Library, School Lane, BurghfieldHUNGERFORD Hungerford Library, Church Street, HungerfordLAMBOURN Lambourn Library, High Street, LambournMAIDENHEAD Town Hall, St Ives Road, MaidenheadNEWBURY Council Offices, Market Street, NewburyPANGBOURNE Pangbourne Library, Reading Road, PangbourneREADING Civic Centre, Reading Borough Council, Reading

Tilehurst Library, School Road, ReadingSLOUGH Town Hall, Bath Road, SloughTWYFORD Twyford Library, Polehampton Close, TwyfordWINDSOR York House, Sheet Street, WindsorWOKINGHAM Council Offices, Shute End, WokinghamWOODLEY Woodley Library, Headley Road, Woodley

Representation Period: 19 June 2003 to 19 July 2003

14. The Commission are statutorily required to consider representations about their provisionalrecommendations made within one month of local publication on 19 June 2003.

15. Representations should be addressed to the Boundary Commission for England, PO Box31060, London, SW1V 2FF, or faxed to 020 7533 5176, or emailed to [email protected] representations received by the Commission will be acknowledged.

16. Please note that the Commission are not statutorily required to consider any representationsmade after 19 July 2003, but will endeavour to take late representations into account. However, thelater the representation is made, the more difficult this will be. The Commission therefore ask that allrepresentations be made within the specified month period. In the event that a local inquiry is heldinto the provisional recommendations, all representations will be made public beforehand so thatinterested persons may prepare for the local inquiry. Any representation received too late to be issuedwith the other representations before the local inquiry cannot be given the same weight as the otherrepresentations because other interested persons will not have had the same opportunity to considerit.

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17. Where representations objecting to the provisional recommendations are made by an interestedlocal authority (a county or district council) or by a body of 100 or more electors, the Commissioncannot proceed with their final recommendations to the Secretary of State until a local inquiry hasbeen held. If the Commission decide to alter their recommendations as a result of the inquiry, therevised recommendations must also be published and representations invited, but a further localinquiry is not obligatory.

18. Those who make representations are requested to say whether they approve of, or object to, theCommission’s proposals and to give their reasons for their approval or objection. In particular,objectors are advised to say what they propose in place of the Commission’s recommendations andshould note that an objection accompanied by a counter-proposal is likely to carry more weight thana simple statement of objection.

19. The Commission wish to stress that their provisional recommendations relate solely toparliamentary constituencies. They do not affect county, district or parish boundaries, local taxes,the administration of local services, or result in changes to postcodes. Nor is there any evidence thatthe provisional recommendations have adverse effects on house prices or car and house insurancepremiums. The Commission will not, therefore, be able to take account of any representation whichis based on these issues.

Background Note

20. The Commission are constituted under Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act1986. The ex officio Chairman is the Speaker of the House of Commons. The Deputy Chairman,who presides over Commission meetings, is a High Court Judge appointed by the Lord Chancellor.The other Commissioners are appointed by the Secretary of State. The two Assessors to theCommission are the Registrar General of England and Wales and the Director General of OrdnanceSurvey. Assistant Commissioners are lawyers appointed by the Secretary of State to conduct localinquiries.

21. The Commission are required by the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 as amended by theBoundary Commissions Act 1992 to conduct a general review of all the constituencies in Englandevery eight to twelve years. The Commission completed their previous general review on 12 April1995 and must therefore complete the current review after 11 April 2003 and before 12 April 2007.

22. The general review started formally with the publication of a notice in the London Gazette on 17February 2000. The Commission’s recommendations throughout the review must by law be basedon the numbers of electors on the electoral registers on that date.

Rules

23. In recommending new constituencies, the Commission are required to give effect to the Rulesfor Redistribution of Seats which are contained in Schedule 2 to the 1986 Act.

24. Rule 1 places a limit on the total number of constituencies. Rule 2 requires single memberconstituencies. Rule 3 relates to the City of London. Rule 4 states that county and London boroughboundaries are to be followed so far as is practicable. Rule 5 states that the electorates ofconstituencies are to be as nearly equal as practicable. Rule 6 allows the Commission to depart fromrules 4 and 5 if special geographical considerations make a departure desirable. Rule 7 allows theCommission to depart from other rules; and requires them to take account of inconveniences causedor local ties broken by changes to constituencies. Rule 8 defines the electoral quota as the totalnumber of parliamentary electors in England (i.e. 36,995,157) divided by the existing number ofseats (529), and requires the Commission to use the electorates as at the start of a review.

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Procedures

25. In conducting a general review of constituencies, the Commission are required by the legislationto follow certain procedures, principally to provide for public consultation.

26. The Secretary of State must be given notice of a review and that notice must be published in theLondon Gazette. Provisional recommendations must be published in newspapers in the affectedconstituencies and, unless the proposals are for no changes to be made, they must also be depositedfor public inspection in at least one place in each affected constituency.

27. Representations may be made within one month of publication of the provisionalrecommendations and the Commission must take any representations into consideration. Whereobjections are received from a county or district council or a body of 100 or more electors, a localinquiry must be held.

28. If the Commission revise their recommendations as a result of an inquiry, the revisedrecommendations must also be published and further representations invited and considered. Asecond local inquiry cannot be forced by these further representations, but there is discretionarypower to hold a second inquiry. Any further modifications, as a result of further representations or asecond inquiry, must also be published and representations invited. When the Commission havedecided their final recommendations for the whole country, they must submit a report to theSecretary of State.

Implementation of the recommendations

29. The Secretary of State has a statutory duty to lay the Commission's report before Parliamenttogether with a draft Order in Council giving effect to the Commission’s recommendations with orwithout modifications. If modifications are proposed, the Secretary of State must also lay a statementof reasons for the modifications.

30. The draft Order in Council is submitted to both Houses of Parliament for approval and, after it ismade by Her Majesty in Council, it cannot be called into question in any legal proceedings. The newconstituencies take effect at the general election following the making of the Order in Council.

31. The above information is intended to be a general guide only. For a definitive statement of thelaw, please refer to the Parliamentary Constituencies Act 1986 - as amended by the BoundaryCommissions Act 1992, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994, the Government of Wales Act1998, and the Scotland Act 1998 - together with the Court of Appeal ruling in R v BoundaryCommission for England Ex parte Foot [1983] QB 600.

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Crown Copyright

32. The outline map which forms part of this document and the maps deposited at the addresseslisted above are based on Ordnance Survey data and are subject to ©crown copyright. Unauthorisedreproduction will infringe crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings.

33. Any person wishing to reproduce the outline map or the maps placed on deposit should firstcontact the Copyright Office at Ordnance Survey, Romsey Road, Southampton SO16 4GU(telephone 023 8079 2929).

Enquiries

34. Should you require further information about these provisional recommendations or about otheraspects of the Commission's work please write to the Boundary Commission for England, PO Box31060, London, SW1V 2FF or telephone:-

Berkshire enquiries 020 7533 5173 or 020 7533 5164General enquiries 020 7533 5177Fax 020 7533 5176

Email address for Berkshire enquiries: [email protected] address for general enquires: [email protected]

35. The Internet version of this news release is now available on:-

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/

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BERKSHIRE - THE UNITARY AUTHORITIES OF BRACKNELL FOREST, READING,SLOUGH, WEST BERKSHIRE, WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD, AND WOKINGHAM2000 WARD ELECTORATES TO BE USED THROUGHOUT THE REVIEW

A Bracknell Forest Borough 78,238 B West Berkshire District 110,066

1. Ascot 3,913 1. Aldermaston 2,0602. Binfield and Warfield 5,826 2. Basildon 2,1973. Bullbrook 3,789 3. Birch Copse 6,3994. Central Sandhurst 3,932 4. Bucklebury 4,2005. College Town 3,636 5. Burghfield 4,3206. Crown Wood 5,822 6. Calcot 6,8287. Crowthorne 3,726 7. Chievely 1,8068. Great Hollands North 3,083 8. Clay Hill 4,3899. Great Hollands South 3,977 9. Cold Ash 2,21310. Hanworth 6,470 10. Compton 2,25211. Harmans Water 5,356 11. Downlands 2,24612. Little Sandhurst and Wellington 3,839 12. Falkland 4,95513. Old Bracknell 3,341 13. Greenham 3,26214. Owlsmoor 3,914 14. Hungerford 4,45115. Priestwood and Garth 5,496 15. Kintbury 3,81916. Warfield Harvest Ride 5,029 16. Lambourn Valley 4,39017. Wildridings and Central 3,488 17. Mortimer 3,95218. Winkfield and Cranbourne 3,601 18. Northcroft 3,946

19. Pangbourne 2,20720. Purley on Thames 4,91621. St Johns 4,47422. Speen 4,16923. Sulhamstead 2,15824. Thatcham Central 4,64725. Thatcham North 3,52826. Thatcham South and Crookham 3,76027. Thatcham West 4,78928. Theale 2,17229. Victoria 3,31230. Westwood 2,249

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C Reading Borough 103,267 D Slough Borough 77,292

1. Abbey 6,075 1. Baylis and Stoke 6,1812. Battle 6,191 2. Britwell 6,0903. Caversham 6,478 3. Central 5,9134. Church 6,284 4. Chalvey 5,5835. Katesgrove 5,931 5. Cippenham Green 5,9766. Kentwood 6,869 6. Cippenham Meadows 5,6587. Mapledurham 2,439 7. Colnbrook with Poyle 3,6658. Minster 6,968 8. Farnham 5,9879. Norcot 7,017 9. Foxborough 3,86510. Park 6,867 10. Haymill 6,00311. Peppard 7,158 11. Kedermister 5,67312. Redlands 7,694 12. Langley St.Mary's 5,16713. Southcote 6,365 13. Upton 5,30214. Thames 6,862 14. Wexham Lea 6,22915. Tilehurst 7,07416. Whitley 6,995

E Windsor and MaidenheadBorough

102,176 F Wokingham District 110,202

1. Ascot and Cheapside 3,501 1. Arborfield 1,3302. Belmont 5,775 2. Barkham 2,0453. Bisham and Cookham 5,366 3. Bulmershe and Whitegates 6,1514. Boyn Hill 5,610 4. Charvil 2,1155. Bray 5,512 5. Coronation 4,5116. Castle Without 4,640 6. Emmbrook 6,0227. Clewer East 3,310 7. Evendons 6,7448. Clewer North 5,654 8. Finchampstead North 4,1279. Clewer South 3,791 9. Finchampstead South 4,20810. Cox Green 5,757 10. Hawkedon 6,50611. Datchet 3,665 11. Hillside 6,65212. Eton and Castle 1,513 12. Hurst 2,14313. Eton Wick 1,823 13. Loddon 6,36314. Furze Platt 5,710 14. Maiden Erlegh 6,76915. Horton and Wraysbury 3,751 15. Norreys 6,15516. Hurley and Walthams 4,737 16. Remenham, Wargrave and 4,15817. Maidenhead Riverside 5,504 Ruscombe18. Old Windsor 5,172 17. Shinfield North 1,71619. Oldfield 3,733 18. Shinfield South 3,72120. Park 3,821 19. Sonning 2,23921. Pinkneys Green 5,282 20. South Lake 4,53222. Sunningdale 3,481 21. Swallowfield 1,87423. Sunninghill and South Ascot 5,068 22. Twyford 4,277

23. Wescott 3,95124. Winnersh 5,79025. Wokingham Without 6,103