The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) has today published its final recommendations for new electoral arrangements for Cambridgeshire County Council.

Sutton will be joined together with half of Littleport, the Downham villages, Haddenham, Wilburton, Stretham, and Little Thetford, sharing two county councillors between them.

There will be 61 county councillors in Cambridgeshire in the future: eight fewer than at present. This will mean a huge increase in the workload for county councillors, with each councillor representing, on average, 23 per cent more residents in future than they do at present.

The one thing to be grateful for from this mess is that Sutton is not to be split in half as some respondents proposed.