John Healy MP, minister for local government has finally expressed his intentions to go for a June election for 'One Cornwall', and that this is to be on a membership of 123 councillors.

This is good news in that the new council will have a proper mandate to represent the electorate through properly elected members. If the Boundary Committee take on board the representations which were sent to them during their consultation period before June, even better.

There is, however, serious doubt as to whether anomalies like the beach and village of Widemouth Bay being split between two electoral wards in their draft proposal will be sorted out in time for a June election. If this doesn't happen then it will be 2013 before we can have the best representation in Cornwall.

It's time for the Boundary Committee for England and Westminster to take their local government review seriously and get their act together. Unitary local government is going to happen even though many of us didn't support it. Since the decision was democratically made many of us have worked hard to ensure the best for our electorate and to make it work, but we can't do it properly without the

correct support from London.

County Councillor

Marhamchurch and Week St Mary Division.