The City of Edinburgh (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998

Made: 11th December 1998

Coming into force: 1st January 1999

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 City of Edinburgh (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st January 1999.

Interpretation

2

In the Schedule to this Order–

• (a) a reference to–

• (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:–

• “EW” for electoral ward;

• “NG Ref” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

Electoral arrangements

3

The area of the City of the Edinburgh Council shall be divided into 58 wards, having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE — ELECTORAL WARDS

Ward 1 Balerno

Commencing at NG Ref NT 1336 6787 on the western boundary of the City of Edinburgh Council; then northeastward along a field boundary to and southeastward and generally northeastward along Dalmahoy Road to its junction with Warriston Road; then northwestward along the said road to a point in line with the southwestern curtilage of properties at Warriston Farm at NG Ref NT 1632 6873; then westward to and generally northwestward and northeastward along the southwestern and northern curtilages of the said properties to Warriston Road; then generally northeastward along the said road to and southeastward along Curriehill Station Road to NG Ref NT 1757 6833; then southward in a straight line to the rear curtilage of No 84 Forth View Crescent; then southeastward along the rear curtilages of properties on the western side of Forth View Crescent, Forth View Avenue, Pentland Avenue and the western boundary of a Playing Field to the A70 road (Lanark Road West); then southwestward along the said road to a point in line with the eastern curtilage of No 418 Lanark Road West at NG Ref NT 1716 6725; then due south across a dismantled railway line to the Water of Leith at NG Ref NT 1716 6721; then southeastward and northeastward along the said water to a point in line with the eastern boundary of Lymphoy Glen at NG Ref NT 1748 6732; then due south across a dismantled railway line to and generally southeastward along the eastern boundary of Lymphoy Glen and its continuation southeastward as a wooded strip and field boundaries to NG Ref NT 1888 6537; then southwestward and southeastward along field boundaries to the southern boundary of the City of Edinburgh Council; then generally southwestward and northward along the southern and western boundaries of the said Council boundary to the point of commencement.

Ward 2 Baberton

Ward 3 Dalmeny/Kirkliston

Ward 4 Queensferry

Ward 5 Cramond

Note: EW 5 includes the islands of Cow and Calves and Inchmickery in the Firth of Forth.

Ward 6 Davidson’s Mains

Ward 7 Muirhouse/Drylaw

Ward 8 Craigleith

Ward 9 Pilton

Ward 10 Granton

Ward 11 Trinity

Ward 12 Newhaven

Ward 13 East Craigs

Ward 14 N.E. Corstorphine

Ward 15 Murrayfield

Ward 16 Dean

Ward 17 Stockbridge

Ward 18 New Town

Ward 19 Broughton

Ward 20 Calton

Ward 21 Harbour

Ward 22 Lorne

Ward 23 Gyle

Ward 24 S.E. Corstorphine

Ward 25 Parkhead

Ward 26 Craiglockhart

Ward 27 Stenhouse

Ward 28 Moat

Ward 29 Shandon

Ward 30 Dalry

Ward 31 Fountainbridge

Ward 32 Tollcross

Ward 33 Southside

Ward 34 Holyrood

Ward 35 Meadowbank

Ward 36 Mountcastle

Ward 37 Leith Links

Ward 38 Restalrig

Ward 39 Portobello

Ward 40 Milton

Ward 41 Murray Burn

Ward 42 Sighthill

Ward 43 Colinton

Ward 44 Firrhill

Ward 45 Merchiston

Ward 46 North Morningside/Grange

Ward 47 Marchmont

Ward 48 Sciennes

Ward 49 Newington

Ward 50 Prestonfield

Ward 51 South Morningside

Ward 52 Fairmilehead

Ward 53 Alnwickhill

Ward 54 Kaimes

Ward 55 Moredun

Ward 56 Gilmerton

Ward 57 Craigmillar

Ward 58 Duddingston

Signed

Henry B McLeish — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 11th December 1998

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect (with minor modifications of a drafting nature) to proposals made by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for the future electoral arrangements for the area of the City of Edinburgh Council. The proposals follow on the review of the whole of Scotland undertaken by the Commission in terms of Schedule 5 to the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973. The area of the City of Edinburgh Council is divided into 58 electoral wards as described in the Schedule to the Order. In terms of paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the wards apply with effect from the ordinary election of councillors due to take place in May 1999.

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