- Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 3075 (S. 180)
The West Dunbartonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998
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| Made | 25th November 1998 | ||
| Coming into force | 1st January 1998 |
Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973[1], as read with Schedule 5 to that Act[2], the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 26th May 1998 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review together with its proposals for the future electoral arrangements for the area of West Dunbartonshire Council;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 233(3) of, and Schedule 5 to, the said Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the West Dunbartonshire (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.
Interpretation
2. In the Schedule to this Order-
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(a) a reference to-
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(i) an electoral ward is a reference to that electoral ward as constituted in this Order; and
(ii) a road, footpath, railway line, river, burn or canal shall, where the context so admits, be construed as a reference to the centre line of the feature concerned; and
(b) the following abbreviations are used:-
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"EW" for electoral ward;
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"NG Ref" for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.
Electoral arrangements
3.
The area of West Dunbartonshire Council shall be divided into 22 wards, having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.
Henry B McLeish
Minister of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
25th November 1998
Ward 1 Whitecrook
Commencing on the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council at the junction of the A814 Glasgow Road and Mill Road NG Ref NS 5080 6904; then generally eastward and southward along the said council boundary to the centre of the River Clyde NG Ref NS 5043 6882; then westward along the said river to a point in line with South Bank Street; then northeastward in a straight line to and along the said street to Glasgow Road; then northeastward to and along North Bank Street and its prolongation in a straight line between the Bowling Green Pavilion and the Depot Building to the Clydebank to Yoker railway line; then northwestward along the said railway line to the junction at the prolongation of Dunsmore Street; then generally northward to and along Dunsmore Street to the junction with Dean Street; then generally eastward to NG Ref NS 5046 6997; then generally northeastward along the boundary line of the Rugby Playing Fields to NG Ref NS 5066 7015; then generally northward to the centre line of the Forth and Clyde Canal; then generally eastward along the said canal to join the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council; then generally southward along the said council boundary to the point of commencement.
Ward 2 Dalmuir/Central
Commencing at the junction of the Clydebank to Drumchapel Railway Line on Kilbowie Road NG Ref NS 4981 7083; then southwestward along the said road to where it crosses the Forth and Clyde Canal; then eastward along the said canal to the western boundary of EW 1; then generally southward along the said EW boundary to the River Clyde NG Ref NS 4988 6914; then generally northwestward along the said river to the point of confluence with the Duntocher Burn at NG Ref NS 4726 7100; then northeastward to and along the said burn to the junction with Dumbarton Road; then southeastward along Dumbarton Road to the junction with Scott Street; then northeastward along Scott Street to the junction with the Clydebank to Drumchapel Railway Line; then generally southeastward along the said railway line to the junction with Duntocher Road; then generally southwestward along Duntocher Road to Dumbarton Road; then southeastward along the said road to the point where it crosses the Forth and Clyde Canal; then northeastward and southeastward along the said canal to the junction with Boquhanran Road; then generally northward and northeastward along Boquhanran Road to the junction with the Clydebank to Drumchapel Railway Line NG Ref NS 4901 7112; then generally eastward along the said railway line to the point of commencement.
Ward 3 Mountblow
Commencing at the junction of Great Western Road A82 and Mountblow Road NG Ref NS 4800 7277; then generally southward along Mountblow Road to the junction with Perth Crescent; then generally westward along Perth Crescent to the junction with Kimberley Street; then generally southward along Kimberley Street to NG Ref NS 4802 7222; then generally westward to NG Ref NS 4792 7221 on Perth Crescent, then generally southeastward along Perth Crescent to the junction with Melbourne Avenue; then generally southeastward along Melbourne Avenue to the western curtilage of No 29 Melbourne Avenue; then generally southwestward along the said curtilage of No 29 Melbourne Avenue; then generally northwestward and southwestward to Salisbury Place; then southeastward along Salisbury Place to the junction with the rear access to Salisbury Place; then southeastward along the said access and its continuation in a straight line to Mountblow Road; then generally southwestward along Mountblow Road to the junction with Dumbarton Road; then southeastward along Dumbarton Road to the western boundary of EW 2; then generally southwestward along the said EW boundary to the River Clyde NG Ref NS 4726 7100; then generally northwestward along the said river to NG Ref NS 4691 7145; then generally eastward to the channel entering the River Clyde at NG Ref NS 4698 7148; then generally northeastward along the said channel to the Forth and Clyde Canal; then southeastward along the said canal to a point in line with the rear curtilages of Nos 201 to 203 Durban Avenue; then northeastward to and along the said rear curtilages of Nos 205 to 209 Durban Avenue and their prolongation in a straight line to the centre of the roundabout at the junction of Dumbarton Road and Western Isles Road NG Ref NS 4740 7197; then generally northwestward along Old Dalnottar Road to Harris Road; then northeastward along Harris Road to Lewis Crescent; then northward along Lewis Crescent to a point in line with the rear curtilage of No 2 Harris Drive; then northwestward to and along the rear curtilages of Nos 2 to 28 Harris Drive to the rear curtilage of No 9 Dalnottar Gardens; then northeastward along the rear curtilages of Nos 9 to 7 Dalnottar Gardens to the eastern curtilage of No 12 Dalnottar Drive; then northeastward along the said curtilage and continuing northeastward to and along the eastern curtilage of No 11 Dalnottar Drive to the rear curtilage of No 8 Lewis Place; then northeastward along the rear curtilages of Nos 8 to 6 Lewis Place; then northeastward in a straight line to the Old Kilpatrick to Drumchapel Railway Line; then generally northwestward along the said railway line to NG Ref NS 4698 7265; then generally northward and northeastward along a path to the junction with Great Western Road A82; then generally eastward along the said road to the point of commencement.
Ward 4 Parkhall
Commencing at the junction of Great Western Road A82 and Mountblow Road NG Ref NS 4800 7277; then generally eastward along Great Western Road to the junction with Milton Mains Road; then generally southward along Milton Mains Road to and generally southward along Duntocher Road to the junction with Shakespeare Avenue; then generally westward, southward and eastward along Shakespeare Avenue to its junction with Ramsay Street; then southwestward along the said street to a point in line with the northern curtilage of No 2 Ramsay Street; then southeastward to and along the said curtilage and continuing southeastward in a straight line to Swan Street; then eastward along the said street to a point in line with the eastern boundary of No 150 Second Avenue; then southward in a straight line to Albert Road; then generally westward in a straight line to Second Avenue NG Ref NS 4889 7132; then generally southeastward along Second Avenue to its junction with Boquhanran Road; then southward along Boquhanran Road to the junction with the Clydebank to Drumchapel Railway Line and the northern boundary of EW 2; then generally southward and northwestward along the said EW boundary to its junction with the eastern boundary of EW 3; then generally northward along the said EW boundary to the point of commencement.
Ward 5 Linnvale/Drumry
Commencing at the junction of Drumry Road and Great Western Road A82 on the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council NG Ref NS 5087 7096; then generally southeastward and southward along the said council boundary to a point on the Forth and Clyde Canal at NG Ref NS 5136 7002; then generally westward along the said canal to the junction with Kilbowie Road; then generally northward along Kilbowie Road to the junction with Melfort Avenue; then generally eastward and northward along Melfort Avenue to the junction with Drumry Road; then generally eastward along Drumry Road to the point of commencement.
Ward 6 Kilbowie
Commencing at the junction of Drumry Road and Great Western Road A82 on the northern boundary of EW 5 NG Ref NS 5087 7096; then generally westward along the said EW boundary to NG Ref NS 4987 7109; then generally northwestward along Kilbowie Road to its junction with Hawthorn Street; then generally westward along Hawthorn Street to the junction with Duntocher Road and the eastern boundary of EW 4; then generally northeastward along the said EW boundary to Great Western Road; then generally southeastward along Great Western Road to the point of commencement.
Ward 7 Kilbowie West
Commencing at the junction of Kilbowie Road and the Clydebank to Drumchapel Railway Line NG Ref NS 4981 7083; then generally westward along the said railway line to the eastern boundary of EW 4; then generally northeastward along the said EW boundary to the western boundary of EW 6; then generally southeastward and southward along the western boundaries of EW 6 and EW 5 to the point of commencement.
Ward 8 Faifley
Commencing at NG Ref NS 4993 7277 at the Hardgate Roundabout; then generally northward and eastward along Faifley Road to the junction with Waulking Mill Road; then northward along the said road to a path leading to Wishart Avenue NG Ref NS 5029 7340; then northwestward along the said path to and northward along Wishart Avenue to Auchnacraig Road; then westward along the said road and continuing westward in a straight line to the Cochno Burn; then generally northeastward and northwestward along the said burn to the junction with the Jaw Burn; then generally northward along the said burn to the junction with the Jaw Reservoir; then generally northeastward and northwestward along the eastern shore of the Jaw Reservoir to the junction with the Cochno Loch; then generally northward along the eastern shore of the Cochno Loch to NG Ref NS 4950 7641; then generally northeastward along a field boundary to the junction with the Black Loch NG Ref NS 4973 7658; then generally northeastward along the northwestern shore of the Black Loch to the junction with Craigton Burn; then generally northeastward along the said burn to the junction with the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council at NG Ref NS 5031 7727; then generally southward along the said council boundary and continuing southward in a straight line to Glasgow Road NG Ref NS 5117 7291; then generally westward along Glasgow Road to NG Ref NS 5050 7272; then generally northeastward and northward along a footpath to an unnamed burn at NG Ref NS 5057 7286; then generally westward and southwestward along the said burn to a path NG Ref NS 4999 7284; then generally southwestward along the said path and continuing in a straight line to the point of commencement.
Ward 9 Hardgate
Commencing at NG Ref NS 4993 7277 at the Hardgate Roundabout on the southern boundary of EW 8; then generally northeastward and eastward along the said EW boundary to the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council; then generally southwestward along the said council boundary to the northeastern boundary of EW 6; then northwestward along the said EW boundary to a point in line with the eastern curtilage of a playing field on the northern side of the A82 NG Ref NS 4942 7237; then northeastward to and along the said curtilage and its continuation in a straight line to Milton Douglas Road; then generally northwestward along the said Road to the junction with Roman Road and Old Mill Road; then generally northwestward along Old Mill Road to William Street; then generally northward along William Street to Dumbarton Road; then generally eastward along Dumbarton Road to the junction with the Loch Humphrey Burn NG Ref NS 4965 7285; then generally northwestward along the said burn to the point where it is crossed by Breval Crescent; then southwestward along Breval Crescent to Glenhead Crescent; then generally northwestward along Glenhead Crescent to Craighurst Drive; then southwestward along Craighurst Drive to Farm Road; then northward along the said road to NG Ref 4902 7337; then in a straight line to NG Ref 4903 7339; then northeastward in a straight line to the Loch Humphrey Burn; then generally northwestward along the Loch Humphrey Burn to the junction with the Greenside Reservoir; then generally northwestward along the western shore of Greenside Reservoir to and continuing northwestward along the Loch Humphrey Burn to the banks of the Loch Humphrey; then generally northeastward and northwestward along the southern, eastern and northern shores of Loch Humphrey to the Black Burn; then generally northwestward and northward along the said burn to a field boundary at NG Ref NS 4541 7693; then generally northeastward along the said field boundary to the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council at NG Ref NS 4846 7888; then generally southeastward, eastward and southward along the said council boundary to the junction with the northern boundary of EW 8; then generally southwestward and southward along the northern and western boundaries of EW 8 to the point of commencement.
Ward 10 Duntocher
Commencing at NG Ref NS 4942 7235 at Great Western Road; then generally westward and northwestward along Great Western Road A82 to a point in line with the western boundary of the Dalnottar Cemetery NG Ref NS 4746 7284; then generally northeastward to and along the said boundary to NG Ref NS 4758 7304; then westward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4738 7304; then generally northward to NG Ref NS 4735 7324; then generally southwestward to the junction with an unnamed burn NG Ref NS 4712 7317; then generally northward along the said burn to NG Ref NS 4721 7421; then generally northeastward to its junction with the Loch Humphrey Burn and the western boundary of EW 9; then generally southeastward along the said EW boundary to the point of commencement.
Ward 11 Bowling/Milton/Old Kilpatrick
Commencing at a point in the River Clyde NG Ref NS 4080 7384; then generally northeastward to a path that runs along the western curtilages of the Warehouses on the south side of Glasgow Road; then northeastward along the said path to Glasgow Road; then northeastward to and along the western curtilage of a Pavilion located on the north side of Glasgow Road to NG Ref NS 4143 7474, in line with the rear curtilages of the houses located on the south side of Geils Avenue; then generally northwestward along the said curtilages to the junction with Greenhead Road; then northeastward along Greenhead Road to its junction with Stirling Road, the A82(T); then southeastward along Stirling Road to the point where it crosses the Hunter's Burn; then generally northeastward along the said burn to a point in line with a field boundary at NG Ref NS 4167 7505; then northeastward along the said field boundary to NG Ref NS 4177 7519; then northwestward along a field boundary to NG Ref NS 4172 7524; then generally northeastward along a field boundary to an unnamed road at NG Ref NS 4177 7536; then generally northeastward along the said road its junction with an access road to the former hospital at Overtoun House NG Ref NS 4253 7559; then generally northward along the said road to a track at NG Ref NS 4255 7611; then northward along the said track to NG Ref NS 4257 7627; then generally northwestward in a straight line to the north western corner of the Garshake Reservoir at NG Ref NS 4224 7657; then generally northwestward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4157 7678; then generally northward along a track to NG Ref NS 4205 7768; then northwestward and northeastward along a field boundary to NG Ref NS 4212 7789; then northward to the Auchenreoch Burn at NG Ref NS 4212 7826; then generally westward along the said burn to the junction with the Murroch Burn; then generally southward along the said burn to its confluence with an unnamed burn NG Ref NS 4112 7790; then generally northwestward along the said burn and continuing along field boundaries to a point on the eastern boundary of No 13 Broomhill Crescent; then generally eastward along an access track to Highdykes Farm NG Ref NS 4094 7862; then generally northwestward along the prolongation of a field boundary to NG Ref NS 4070 7901; then generally northeastward along a field boundary to the western boundary of Nobleston Wood; then generally northeastward along a field boundary to NG Ref NS 4310 8043; then southeastward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4318 8037; then northeastward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4360 8045; then northeastward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4442 8143; then eastward in a straight line to NG Ref NS 4609 8154 and the eastern boundary of West Dunbartonshire Council; then generally eastward and southward along the said council boundary to and generally southwestward and southward along the northern and western boundaries of EW 9 to its junction with the northern most point of EW 10; then generally southward along the western boundary of EW 10 to its junction with the northern boundary of EW 3; then generally southward along the western boundary of EW 3 to the River Clyde; then northwestward along the said river to the point of commencement.
Notes:
[1] 1973 c.65.back
[2] Schedule 5 was substituted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 92(67).back
