Sarah Church provides an update on her community work and campaign activities.
Sarah Church provides an update on her community work and campaign activities.
AN OPEN AND TRANSPARENT COUNCIL DOUBLE COUNCIL HOUSE BUILDING REINSTATE SURESTART CHILDREN’S CENTRES MORE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION REGENERATE OUR HERITAGE
The Conservatives are always promising jam tomorrow but the reality is they have delivered very little but they have wasted both opportunities and tax payers money.
Labour concerned that Town Centre Tower Blocks will lead to mass parking on Eastcott’s Roads Two planning applications to build more than 200 flats in the Town Centre, with no allotted car parking spaces, have been approved by Swindon Council’s planning committee. The two tower blocks will each be more than 10 storeys high and will tower over the Eastcott skyline. Labour had called on Swindon Council to deliver parking provision in the tower blocks and have also opposed the…
In the last couple of years Swindon has seen a dramatic rise in people sleeping rough. It has increased by over 75%. Tory Government Austerity policies such as Universal Credit are at the root cause for in the last year under their new funding formula Swindon has been short changed by £400k. We have moved from a caring welfare state to a sorry state. You only have to look at food bank use to see the Tories have no shame…
The Conservative Council Administration has bowed to pressure from your Labour Councillors and others and have begun the process of withdrawing from the Regeneration agreement with the MUSE. This will not come for free; compensation could have to be paid for their wasted years of failure. If this happened in the workplace you could be sacked for less, you can make your feelings known in the May 2018 elections. The Conservatives are still promising jam tomorrow even though they failed…
Swindon’s Conservative Administration has presided over the largest local tax rises in the Country. The average increase is 10% whilst elsewhere in the country it has been 5%. They have forced unwelcomed Parishes against peoples wills and are using these to offload services with additional taxes. Nationally the Conservatives are threatening to cap Parishes to stop this type of abuse. These changes are a direct result of underfunding from the Conservative Government whilst they still try to blame the previous…
After years of failed promises and delays, the Labour Group has called on Swindon Council to terminate their development agreement with Muse on the Kimmerfields site. The Kimmerfields development was due to provide a substantially sized public open square and a series of new streets surrounded by retail and leisure space, a hotel, a new bus interchange, office space and new homes (including affordable units), delivered over a number of phases. The Council said overall investment in the site from…
Labour councillors on the Central Swindon South Shadow Parish Council have opposed plans by the council to impose additional costs of over £400,000 on to the new parish council for the cleaning of the Town Centre. We will keep fighting to get the best deal for local residents in Eastcott. New Parish Councils in North-Central, West and South-Central Swindon will be having to pay a combined cost of £600,000 in extra bureaucracy as a result of Tory- run Swindon Council…
Swindon’s University Technical College has been judged as inadequate following an Ofsted inspection. Last November the Labour Spokesperson for Education, Cllr Carol Shelley, wrote to Ofsted calling on them to inspect the Swindon UTC and Ofsted confirmed would be inspecting the Swindon UTC during the 2016/17 school year. Last year it was reported that Swindon UTC had only filled 25% of its student places and their 2016 results “well below the national average”. The University Technical College’s 2016 Key Stage…
Households in Swindon can now check what parish council area they will live in, thanks to a new postcode checker on the Council’s website. Last month, the Council decided to create four new parish councils in Swindon, which will mean that 64,000 additional properties will be incorporated within a parished area for the first time. Residents can find out which parished area they live in by using the postcode checker at: www.swindon.gov.uk/parishes
Following Labour Spokesperson for Education, Cllr Carol Shelley, writing to Ofsted calling on them to inspect the Swindon UTC, Ofsted has confirmed they will be inspecting Swindon UTC during this school year. Please find the Ofsted inspector’s letter to Cllr Carol Shelley attached. Last week Councillor Carol Shelley wrote to Ofsted urging them to inspect Swindon UTC after it was found that only 25% of student places were filled at the college and their 2016 results “well below the national…