Engage Broughty Ferry - let The Ferry Local Community Plannning Partnership know about your Priorities

As part of the current process to create new Local Community Plans, Dundee Partnership is seeking the views of local people about ways in which the quality of life can be improved in each electoral area of the city.

Please respond to the online survey and let the Dundee Partnership and The Ferry Local Community Plannning Partnership know about your priorities and ideas.

There are 15 general themes to the online questionnaire, each with a simple question which the partnerships would also like answered as well as an opportunity for you to tell them about your priorities and the improvements needed.

Link to the Online Survey - closing date 30 September 2016

West Ferry Residents Have Their Say About Proposed Local Govenmernt Boundary Changes

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On Tuesday evening upwards of three hundred residents attended a public meeting organised by Broughty Ferry Community Council. The meeting had been called to discuss the proposals by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland to exclude West Ferry from 'The Ferry' local government ward.

As part of their review of all local government boundaries in Scotland, the Boundary Commission, have proposed changes to ward boundaries in Dundee which they have issued for a ten week period of public consultation from the end of July 2015. 

At the meeting, it was confirmed that if the Commission's proposals were implemented, the City Council ward eight, 'The Ferry', would shrink in size by transferring that part of West Ferry west of Victoria Road and Claypotts Road to the East End Ward. 

Adjustments to ward boundaries are designed to help reduce differences between the number of electors in each ward area in the city. This is based on the principle that every elector's vote should have the same influence in an election.

The changes proposed for Broughty Ferry would transfer most residents living in West Ferry from The Ferry to the East End ward. This would not however lead to changes in residents' postcodes and addresses nor the boundaries for schools that their children can attend. Neither do I think that this would adversely affect house prices in West Ferry nor increase home insurance premiums.

But I do concede that the proposals, as they stand, cut across the boundaries of Broughty Ferry as a whole and that many, if not most, residents living in West Ferry  have a strongly felt sense of identity as part of Broughty Ferry. 

Find out more about the proposals at http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reviews/5th_electoral/dundee_city/ or by visiting the exhibition of the maps and documents in Broughty Ferry Library. 

Paper copies of the proposals are available at the Library.

Comments on the Commission's proposals should be submitted by Thursday 22 October 2015: 

• in writing to: Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland Thistle House 91 Haymarket Terrace Edinburgh EH12 5HD 
• by email to: lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov.uk 
• online: www.consultation.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk 

Public Consultation Begins on Proposed Changes to Councillor Numbers and Ward Boundaries in Dundee

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The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland recently published their recommendations for changes to the number of Councillors and the boundaries of electoral wards in Scotland’s 32 council areas including for Dundee City Council.

The Commission have proposed new boundaries for Ward 8 "The Ferry" which, if implemented, would exclude most of West Ferry. The map shows that the western boundary of the ward would run up Victoria Road and Claypotts Road.

The Commission are running a 12 week national consultation which runs until Thursday 22 October 2015.

Find out more about the proposals at http://www.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk/reviews/5th_electoral/dundee_city/ or by visiting the exhibition of the maps and documents in Broughty Ferry Library. Paper copies of the proposals are available at the Library.

Comments on the Commission's proposals should be submitted by Thursday 22 October 2015: 

• in writing to: Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland Thistle House 91 Haymarket Terrace Edinburgh EH12 5HD 
• by email to: lgbcs@scottishboundaries.gov.uk 
• online: www.consultation.lgbc-scotland.gov.uk 

Public Consultation on New Ward Boundaries Starting Soon

A good number of residents in West Ferry have contacted me about proposed changes to ward boundaries in Dundee. In Broughty Ferry these changes would involve most of West Ferry being shifted from The Ferry ward into the East End ward.

These proposals have been made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland whose job it is to periodically review local government boundaries in Scotland to ensure that these boundaries take into account population changes.

An extended period of public consultation will begin on these proposals at or around 30 July.

Link to Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland website