2024 Polling District, Polling Places and Polling Station Review

The Electoral Registration and Administration Act 2023 requires South Derbyshire District Council (The Council) to complete a review of parliamentary polling districts, polling places and polling stations by 31 January 2025.

The purpose of the Review is to ensure that, so far as is practicable in the circumstances a) all electors in the constituencies in the District have such reasonable facilities for voting and b) every polling place is accessible to electors who are disabled.

The Council has commenced the Review and it will follow the timetable below:

21 October 2024	Deadline for receipt of all comments on the Review
25 November 2024	Issue and publication of the Returning Officer’s comments and proposals
23 December 2024	Deadline for receipt of public comments on the Returning Officer’s comments and proposals
16 January 2025	Submission of final proposals to Council
3 February 2025	Publish revised Electoral Register incorporating changes from the Review.

The Council welcomes representations from all residents in the District and in particular residents with disabilities, or any person or body with expertise in access for persons with disabilities.

The Notice to commence the Review can be found here. ^{(pdf, 1.3mb)}

The Council mapping portal where you can find the location of the current polling places and polling stations, together with the current polling district boundaries can be accessed here SDDC (southderbyshire.gov.uk).

The Returning Officer has considered all the representations received by 21 October 2024, these representations and the Returning Officer's proposals are detailed in the Proposals Document that can be found here ^{(pdf, 1.3mb)}

The Returning Officer welcomes comments and representations on her proposals. These must be received by 4pm on 23 December 2024.

If you wish to make a representation please either write to Electoral Services, Civic Offices, Civic Way, Swadlincote, Derbyshire, DE11 0AH, or email pollingplacereview@southderbyshire.gov.uk.

The Returning Officer will consider any representations received before the deadline and report these together with her final proposals to the meeting of Council on 16 January 2025.