JUST A FEW OF OUR RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS OUR RECORD OF ACTION... Investing £7,500 Leybourne Lakes Country Park towards improved has won the prestigious Green access and Flag Award from Keep Britain A CLEAN AND TIDY BOROUGH INVESTMENT IN PUBLIC REALM refurbishment of the Tidy for 12 years in a row Devonshire Rooms at The Borough Council is responsible for emptying the We have secured over £3.86million from a levy Snodland Town Hall bins of over 52,000 households and sweeping over on property developers during the past four years 54 Saturday bulky waste 400 miles of roads, pavements and footpaths. Latest so that we have been able to make significant collection sites across the Borough every month official figures record that 99.96 per cent of what is investments in our local environment. Such – such as three in East collected is recycled or turned into energy. We take a improvements can be seen along the River Medway Malling Contributing £225,000 towards two new dance studios, a gym ‘no tolerance’ approach to littering with those caught in Tonbridge at Town Lock, River Walk and the extension with new equipment, and an immersive spin studio at facing a fine of £100. Since 2016, 61 fixed penalty Castle. We support local retail centres throughout Awarding West Malling Larkfield Leisure Centre notices (fines) totalling £17,300 and 4 additional the Borough, for example, with grants to independent Parish Council £7,465 towards improved signage prosecutions pursued with total fines of £1,500. Our retailers to improve the appearance of their shops. and noticeboards in the town record is reported as an example of best practice in a Government National Litter Strategy for England. POSITIVE MOVE FOR PROVIDING Funding improvements to local village shopping MORE TEMPORARY HOUSING parades across the Borough GREAT LEISURE FACILITIES – such as Aylesford, Borough We have invested £1.6m of contributions from Green, East Peckham, Ditton We have a strong record of investment in our and Wrotham housing developers for the purchase of temporary leisure facilities, Country Parks and over 300 acres accommodation within the Borough area. It means of green open space in Tonbridge alone. Working that those without a permanent home can stay in partnership with the Leisure Trust, significant closer to friends and family locally, improvements and investment at Tonbridge and reduce the Swimming Pool, Larkfield Leisure Centre, the Angel cost burden of Centre and Poult Wood Golf Club. We host Park Runs more expensive A new ‘Careers Adviser in Tonbridge and Leybourne Lakes and a Junior Park Network’ links schools and options such as local businesses to create Run at Longmead. We have invested in our two B&B, hotel rooms industry-relevant careers advice in schools across the Country Parks and helped provide local sports clubs and private rented Borough such as Aylesford, with high quality sports pitches and facilities. Wrotham, Hillview, Hadlow housing. and West Kent College

Investing £500,000 and making a successful bid for national funding for improvements to the Leigh Barrier and Hildenborough Embankments AND A PROMISE OF MORE...

OUR COMMITMENT TO A FINANCIALLY SOUND AND FAIRER AND BETTER WELL-RUN LOCAL COUNCIL RECYCLING FOR ALL FEWER COUNCILLORS NEEDED Conservatives at Tonbridge and Malling We are introducing a new and fairer recycling In the last eight years, we have reduced the size of will continue our record of a well-run and service. This means a doorstep recycling service the bureaucracy at Tonbridge and Malling resulting financially sound Council. Since April taking bottles, plastics, electrical waste and textiles in real savings for Council Tax payers. But more can 2016 our planning and financial prudence in addition to the existing collection of paper, be done. The Council no longer needs 54 Councillors. has delivered efficiencies in excess of cardboard and tins. It is a Conservative Council There will be a Boundary Review before the next elections in four years’ time, and the Conservatives Funding of £25,600 for £2.4m including investments made so far that will be delivering a better and fairer service – new Christmas Lights that are expected to generate £200,000 meaning we can all make our contribution to will be proposing a reduction of one third in the for Tonbridge town number of councillors saving hundreds of centre towards protecting services. It is a reducing waste. thousands of pounds. Money from property Conservative-led Council that has Improvements to Town developers used to Lock and River Walk secure emergency achieved this. Haysden Country Park in partnership with the housing for homeless If our local record “ticks your box” has won the prestigious Environment Agency, people, saving Council Green Flag Award from Kent County Council and Tax payers £10,000s MORE SOCIAL AND please place your cross in ours! Keep Britain Tidy for 13 from levies secured from a year on B&B years in a row housing developers accommodation AFFORDABLE HOUSING The cost of home ownership and renting in the private FREE PARKING ON SUNDAYS sector is a huge barrier for many people. Our new

The Conservatives have continued to keep free car Local Plan will force developers to build more homes parking on Sundays in the main town centres where for low cost rent and shared ownership. For housing Conservatives there is charging at other times. We pledge to keep schemes of 11 homes or more, we say that 40 per free Sunday parking in those car parks and so cent must be allocated for lower cost housing for remain the only Council in West Kent to have free those who are struggling to get a foot on the property For further information about our candidates and our community please visit: Sunday parking in our town centre car parks. ladder. www.tcconservatives.org