The County of Swansea (Communities) Order 2026 / Gorchymyn Sir Abertawe (Cymunedau) 2026

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

This Order implements the recommendations of the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru (“ the Commission ”), which reported in November 2024 on its review of the community electoral arrangements in the County of Swansea. The Commission’s report recommended changes to the boundaries of communities in the County of Swansea and consequential changes to electoral arrangements. This Order implements the Commission’s recommendations without modification. This Order also makes supplemental provision as considered necessary or expedient by the Welsh Ministers in relation to some community names.

The effect of this Order is to make changes to a number of communities and consequential changes to electoral arrangements. This Order abolishes a number of communities and dissolves their community councils, creates new communities and new community councils, and makes administrative provision for the operation of, and setting of precepts relating to, those new community councils.

The Local Government Area Changes Regulations 1976 referred to in article 2 of this Order contain incidental, consequential, transitional and supplementary provisions about the effect and implementation of orders such as this.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to this Order. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with this Order.

Prints of the maps labelled “1” to “50” to which this Order relates are deposited in the office of the Welsh Government at Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ (Elections Division) and with Swansea County Council. Prints deposited with the Swansea County Council are open to inspection by anyone affected by the provisions of this Order.