Belmont – Page 5 – Campaigning for Maidenhead

Spencers Farm

Summerleaze has asked the Council to modify the Green Belt to allow the building of 320 new homes on land north of the Aldebury Road estate and 380 homes on the current site of Furze Platt Senior School. Many local residents are opposed to this development. At the last election we promised to protect the […]

Keeping our parks clean

Your local FOCUS team have continued to speak regularly with the police and the council about local anti-social and crime issues in Pinkneys Green and Furze Platt. Simon Werner says, “Dog fouling in our streets and in our green spaces – like Oaken Grove, Punt Hill, Moffy Hill and Shifford Crescent – is getting worse […]

Manor Green Respite Centre closed

Tagged Protecting the Vulnerable, Stealth Tax Tories

Following an unprecedented increase in charges for the respite centre at Manor Green School, the unit is closing for the Autumn term. The increase in charges made by the Conservative Council from £40 to £350 has made this unaffordable to many people. A resident of Maidenhead who used the vital service told the Maidenhead Advertser […]

Where the money is wasted

Tagged Lib Dems Cost you less, saving money, Tories waste money, valuefor money

Lib Dems have pointed out many areas over the last few years where council tax payers money is being wasted by the Conservatives. For instance, the current Conservatives are spending £5 million on consultants each year. Now Consultants are sometimes needed for specific skills which the council does not have, often these consultants have been […]

Council Tax Payers £374 Better Off Under Lib Dems

Tagged Council Tax, Helping Through The Recession, Stealth Tax Tories, Value For Money

Typical Council Tax Payers in the Royal Borough could be £374 better off under Liberal Democrat Plans to freeze Council Tax than under Conservative Plans to increase Council Tax in line with inflation. With inflation currently running at 5% and averge Council Tax Payers in the Royal Borough living in Band E properties the Lib […]

Lib Dems will Continue to Defend of Weekly Bin Collection

Tagged bins, recycling, rubbish, waste, weekly bin collection, weekly rubbish collection

Local Lib Dems in the Royal Borough have pledged to continue their longstanding defence of weekly rubbish collections. Throughout the last 20 years while neighbouring Conservative councils moved to fortnightly collections or alternate week rubbish / recycling Lib Dems in the Royal Borough have defended weekly collections. “As the Cabinet member responsible for bin collections […]