Last chance to have your say on plans to make Kenilworth's constituency bigger
Kenilworth residents have until Monday, December 5 to have their say on changes to local parliamentary boundaries.
Plans to alter the boundaries were first revealed in June 2021, with a second public consultation held earlier this year.
Now the Boundary Commission for England is asking for feedback on the final proposals.
Changes to Kenilworth and Southam have not been altered since the last consultation.
If approved new boundaries would see Kenilworth and Southam completely surround Warwick and Leamington.
While the latter would take Old Milverton and Blackdown in the opposite direction, Kenilworth's electorate would grow from 69,340 to 74,107.
MP for Kenilworth and Southam Jeremy Wright has already welcomed the 'minimum disruption' presented by the government's proposals.
"These proposals from the Boundary Commission reflect an intention to make constituencies across the UK roughly the same size, which is an objective I support," he said last year.
"Some change to the Kenilworth and Southam constituency was inevitable to achieve that and it seems to me the Boundary Commission proposals in Warwickshire achieve this objective with minimal disruption, though I appreciate that this will be a confusing change for some."
But Budbrooke councillors said they would rather remain under Labour MP Matt Western in Warwick and Leamington, rather than be transferred to Mr Wright's Tory constituency.
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