Thanks satchers, I think you hit all the nails on the head!

The problem as I see it is that people living outside the ward boundary will not be entitled to contribute to the forum. This will exclude me and all our neighbours who line in HOP.

This ought to be a golden opportunity to mend fences rather than entrench existing political boundaries. I will be objecting to the HOP boundary proposal on this basis. Sadly, it seems that at least one councillor behind this thinks that NP can't cross administrative borders, which I think kind of misses the point.