Catalogue description Records of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales

Details of DD
Reference: DD
Title: Records of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales
Description:

Records of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales relating to the review of local government boundaries including internal electoral boundaries.

Annual and occasional reports on the Commission's work can be found in DD 1. Registered files are in DD 11. Records on Special Community Reviews are in DD 2 and DD 8, on Boundary Reviews in DD 3, on District Electoral Reviews in DD 4, on County Electoral Reviews in DD 5 and DD 9, on Unitary Authority Electoral Reviews in DD 7and on District Electoral Reviews in DD 10. Unregistered files on Special Boundary Reviews are in DD 12. Sealed maps are in DD 6.
Date: 1971-2002
Related material:

See also the records of the Local Government Boundary Commission for England: AX
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and Welsh
Creator:

Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, 1974-
Physical description: 12 series
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1985 Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales
Administrative / biographical background:

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales was appointed in June 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.

The Commission's main function was to review particular local government boundaries in Wales at the time it was felt to be desirable in the interests of effective and convenient local government, and also to conduct a general review of all boundaries including internal electoral boundaries every ten to fifteen years.

The Act also required the Commission to undertake a Special Community Review of the whole of Wales as soon as practicable in order to define the boundaries of community councils which replaced parish councils in 1974. This was completed in 1983. Implementation of the recommended changes is the responsibility of the Secretary of State for Wales.

The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 implemented local government reorganisation in Wales. In February 1995, under the Local Government Act 1972 as substituted by the 1994 Act, the Commission were directed by the Secretary of State for Wales to undertake boundary reviews, where it was felt that the re-organisation of local government may have created anomalies in respect of individual towns and villages.

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