Cornwall Council is to be given more time to draw up plans for its future shape and size.

The council says it has received the preliminary feedback from the Local Government Boundary Commission for England on the authority’s first draft submission on Council size for 2021 and its request for an extension to the timetable of the electoral review, during which the boundaries of the electoral divisions for Cornwall Council will be determined. 

‘This concession will give Cornwall Council, our local councils and anyone else who wishes to make representations on the division boundaries more time to do so and it is great that the Commission has been so helpful,’ said Councillor John Wood, the chairman of the council’s electoral review panel.

The panel will next meet on November 16  when it will review the Commission’s response and start developing recommendations for the Council’s next submission on the size of the Council.