Ribble Valley Borough Council is to ask the Boundary Commission to reconsider plans to carve up the constituency.
The commission published initial proposals last year that left the Ribble Valley constituency largely intact, minus the three wards of Billington and Langho; East Whalley, Read and Simonstone; and Whalley and Painter Wood, which were moved into a new-look Hyndburn.
But a special meeting of the council heard the latest proposals effectively split Ribble Valley in two, separated by Pendle Hill.Council leader Stephen Atkinson said: “These new boundaries simply do not make sense. They leave what is almost a mountain between Clitheroe and Nelson, the two main towns of the proposed Pendle and Clitheroe constituency, with an hour-and-a-half bus journey between them.
“Clitheroe is the administrative centre of Ribble Valley and the surrounding villages naturally look towards it as the economic and cultural heart of the borough.“It is the home of Ribble Valley Borough Council, which should remain at the centre of the parliamentary constituency.” The committee decided to reject the latest proposal and ask the Boundary Commission to reconsider its initial proposal, which would see Billington and Langho; East Whalley, Read and Simonstone; and Whalley and Painter Wood moved into Hyndburn.But if the latest proposal must be accepted, it will ask the commission to move the two wards of Whalley and Painter Wood, and Chatburn, back into the Ribble Valley, and Bamber Bridge East into South Ribble.
Fishwick and Frenchwood and Ribbleton wards – currently Preston – would be shifted into the Ribble Valley seat.
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