Polling District and Polling Place Review 2025

Notice is hereby given that in accordance with Section 18C of the Representation of the People Act 1983 Coventry City Council (the Council) is to carry out a review of its polling districts and polling places.

Relevant information and mapping regarding the current arrangements can be found on the Council’s website or can be inspected at the Council House, Earl Street, Coventry CV1 5RR.

The (Acting) Returning Officer (ARO) for the Parliamentary constituencies of Coventry East, Coventry North West and Coventry South will comment on the proposals. Those representations will be published on the Council’s website and will be available for inspection at the Council House, Earl Street, Coventry CV1 5RR in accordance with the timetable set out below.

Electors within the Council area or within a UK Parliamentary constituency which has any part in the authority may make a representation. Comments are invited from all electors regarding the convenience of voting at polling stations currently used for elections and would welcome suggestions for alternative sites.

The Council would also welcome the views of all residents, particularly disabled residents, or any person or body with expertise in access for persons with any type of disability, on the proposals, ARO’s representations or any other related matters.

Anybody making representations should, if possible, give alternative places that may be used as polling places.

Comments and representations may be submitted as follows:

All representations must be made by no later than 9 September 2025.

The outcome of the review will be published by the Council in November 2025 and will be available for inspection on the Council's website and at the Council House, Earl Street, Coventry CV1 5RR.

Anybody making representations should be aware that, upon completion of the review, all correspondence and representations received must, by law, also be published.

Dated: 11 July 2025

Julie Newman, Director of Law and Governance