Caring and campaigning for our community WINCHESTER CITY COUNCIL ELECTIONS MAY 5TH Your priorities are our priorities We will be accessible, approachable and visible in your local 1 communities, listening to you, championing your concerns. We will continue to work with your parish and county councillors, 2 and with the local MP, to achieve the best outcomes on issues in CANDIDATES IN THE NEW the new Upper Meon Valley ward. We will work to ensure that flood management and prevention is UPPER MEON VALLEY WARD 3 given the highest priority by the County and City authorities. We will work to conserve and enhance the landscape and 4 character, to develop the green infrastructure of our beautiful LAURENCE RUFFELL AMBER THACKER villages, and to protect and enhance the habitats of our wild species. Michael Lane for Police Commissioner My priority will always be to keep technology & intelligence to stay you and your family safe. My ahead of criminals and free up policing plan and budget will police time for front-line work. empower the Chief Constable My military background, business and our police to do what they do experience and community service best – prevent crime and catch as a Councillor, all equip me to criminals. bring the necessary leadership to I will spare no effort to ensure we take the tough decisions that will are efficient and focussed on what be needed. matters most to communities. I am asking for your support to I will drive improvement in I have been a Winchester City Councillor for This year has been an exciting and fulfilling GCA 167 Stoke Road, Gosport, PO12 1SE PO12 Gosport, Road, Stoke 167 GCA Promoted by Alan Scard on behalf of Michael Lane of of Lane Michael of behalf on Scard Alan by Promoted make Hampshire safer. the last 10 years representing Owslebury and start for me in the world of local politics. I Contact Michael on: 02392 612124 Email: [email protected] Curdridge. My Winchester City Council Duties hope those of you who are residents in my are Chairman of the Planning Committee, current ward will feel I have represented you If you would like to help our campaign or need a lift to the polling station please contact our office: Chairman of the Joint West of Waterlooville well this past 12 months, with hard work and 01962 679920 [email protected] MDA and Chairman of the North of Whiteley dedication. Development Forum, I am also a member of Some of you reading this will already know me, Working for you all year round - not just at election time! the Local Plan Committee. and for some of you I am a new candidate, I was born in Winchester, I used to live in due to the changes in the district boundaries. Tichborne but have now lived in Owslebury To give you a little background, I am a local for the last 30 years. I am a retired Managing person. I grew up in Cheriton and then Director of three companies, one of which was later, Bramdean, and care deeply about this a construction company, so I am able to put wonderful part of the world. Following a career my past work experience to good use on the as a professional ballet dancer, I qualified as a committees I chair. solicitor. I am passionate about low cost homes for As a longstanding local resident, I am keenly our young village families and will work hard aware of the importance of local highways Affordable Homes to achieve as many rural exception sites as and flooding issues. I am the flood deputy for Over the past year WCC have Flood works possible in the new ward. Cheriton, and have been working with Parish Amber organised the dredging, built and tenants have occupied many new affordable homes Pot holes fixed The new ward of “Upper Meon Valley” is a Councils and the County Council towards clearance and flush-through of Following Amber’s involvement, the spill pond at Beauworth and in Stanmore, and planning improving flash points in the local area. permission has been given repairs are now being carried challenge, and I look forward to meeting as related culvert beneath C161 – out on the B3046 between 01962 771863 now completed. for more affordable homes in many of you as I can over the coming months. Alresford. Cheriton and Mill Cross. [email protected] 01962 777236 [email protected] Beauworth, Bramdean & Hinton Ampner, Cheriton, Chilcomb, Corhampton & Meonstoke, Promoted by Neil Lander-Brinkley, on behalf of the candidates, all of Conservative Office, Manor Farm, Itchen Stoke, ALRESFORD, SO24 0QT. Printed by Solent Design Studio, Claylands Road, Bishop’s Waltham, SO32 1BH. Exton, Kilmeston, Owslebury, Tichborne, Upham, Warnford, West Meon A record of action, a promise of more Left: Let’s stop fly-tipping Working for our Right: Keeping Council Despite fines of up to £50,000, in Tax low Only nine pence! addition to a maximum two-year prison community Winchester City Council is making sentence, flytipping incidents spoil our For many years Conservative councillors elected from difficult decisions so that efficient, beautiful countryside. The Conservative- the Meon Valley have formed a very strong team. vital services – affordable housing, led city council has agreed to fund bin collections and planning – are £30,000 to purchase mobile CCTV Joining with colleagues from the Winchester area not compromised. As budgets cameras to deal with this anti-social they have been working together to make sure they get ever tighter, the Council has behaviour. Remember you can report fly are aware of your concerns, to share information decided that in 2016 / 17, for the tipping using ‘Your Winchester’ app or and making the difference for all our residents. We first time IN SIX YEARS, that your on line: http://www.winchester.gov.uk/ are all lucky enough to live in a beautiful and rural Council Tax will be increased , but waste-and-recycling/flytipping/ part of the country and maintaining and improving by less than 9p a week for a band Taking action near Swanmore our communities is a key focus. We are proud that it D property. has been under a Conservative administration that Left: Delivering Winchester has been rated the best place to live in the new homes is UK. a Conservative priority Right: Strong Local Plan This May, most of that team are now candidates, When a Council has an up-to-date and wishing to continue working for you, your family and Conservatives have built more Council Homes in the district, adopted Local Plan, and a sufficient friends. They have been joined by some new faces, who with over 50 being delivered supply of housing land, it is easier to bring with them new energy and ideas, ensuring that so far and a further 27 have resist development proposals in areas a Conservative-led Council at Winchester continues to planning permission. These that are not suitable for development. improve life for all our local communities. new homes will transform Conservatives are making sure the lives of local people and Winchester District has a Local Plan. benefit the community. Recent They have led the way in southern Below: Supporting completions were in Swanmore Hampshire. The Plan provides guidance apprenticeships and Denmead. More are in the and certainty as to where development New affordable homes in the Southern Parishes Conservatives are committed to supporting pipeline. will happen and the type of apprenticeship schemes that help to equip young development to take place. Local Plans people with the variety of skills and experience for help to achieve community aspirations successful careers, through learning a valuable and make sure that schemes meet skill whilst earning. Our grant schemes encourage policy requirements. more young people into exciting new apprenticeship programmes; an alternative learning journey to college or university. Left: Supporting rural economy Conservatives encourage grants for rural projects which provide help for farmers, foresters, growers, small businesses and investingin rural community groups including those running village halls. This funding is administered by Fieldfare, a Local Action Group which is responsible for distributing Above: Tackling speeding & noise this LEADER project funding, for the good of the Local councillors are supporting their communities and their local economy and employment. Contact Fieldfare concerns about speeding motor bikes on certain key roads, using www.fieldfareleader.org.uk vehicles speeding at anti-social hours whilst creating excessive noise pollution, and the use of their villages as race tracks and short cuts for HGVs. Caring and campaigning for our community.