East Cambs District Council Elections LittleportNews Thursday 2nd May Including Black Horse Drove & Little Ouse CONSERVATIVES DELIVER IN EAST CAMBS Conservatives in East Cambs have a proven track record of delivering what residents want

Above: Serving District Councillors Jo Webber, ► Ely bypass - open David Ambrose Smith and Christine Ambrose Smith working as a dynamic team covering Parish, ► Ely Leisure Village - open District & County as one voice for , will be ► The Hive district leisure centre - open standing for election in Littleport in May 2019 ► New Schools campus & leisure centre in Littleport - delivered ► Littleport Rail Station car park extension - delivered ► Free parking in Littleport and Ely city centre car parks - delivered ► Action on the A10 and upgrade of Ely to Littleport - dualling Ely to Cambridge now in Combined Authority delivery plan ► Grants and funds to community projects - Littleport Parish Council: support to purchase 2 defibrillators; repairs and redecoration of the village hall; support for the Community Woodland Garden project. Support for Eco Art Project and the Youth Group for activities ► Business, jobs & skills - local businesses supported; new businesses and high quality jobs brought into the district (closer to home); apprenticeships delivered ► Housing - championed Community Land Trusts (CLTs) that deliver truly affordable housing for local working people and proper infrastructure - by local people, for local people ► Housing - bringing empty properties at the Princess of Wales site back into use, with a plan to build new CLT truly affordable homes on the site reserved for local, working people ► Low Council Tax - ECDC element of Council Tax frozen for 6 years, with no cuts to services ► Low management costs - by far the lowest of any District Council in ► Less Councillors - number of Councillors reducing from 39 to 28 in May 2019

We ensured the swift delivery of the Schools Campus & Leisure Centre

On your side, standing up for the village Our plan for

Community led developments: Railways: Soham Station; housing by the people keeping road access in for the people Ely North junction upgrade Communities in East Cambs We will ensure Queen Adelaide, are establishing Community Led and North Ely residents Developments which provide truly keep their road access in the North affordable homes for local working Ely junction upgrade, whilst fighting people with ties to their community - for the new station for Soham housing for the next generation

Renovating empty homes; Better bus services, new affordable homes like the Ely Zipper, for local working people and more rural routes

The Council is buying the 88 empty The Combined Authority has the houses at the Princess of Wales power to control the bus network and Hospital in Ely. We’ll renovate the timetable. We need more and better existing houses into homes for local bus services, like the Ely Zipper, and residents and build new affordable more in rural areas. We’ll work with homes on the site for local working you to identify more routes for the people Combined Authority to deliver

Cleaner & Greener: more resources for street cleaning; Dualling the A10; cracking down on fly-tipping & graffiti; upgrading the A14/A142 junction Purge on Plastics

We will ensure the Combined Residents are recycling more and Authority duals the A10 from Ely to reporting environmental crime. Cambridge and delivers the much East Cambs Street Scene has new needed A14/A142 junction upgrade resources going into street cleaning, at Exning, making our journeys fly-tipping and graffiti. And we’re safer and easier campaigning for a “Purge on Plastics”

Our plan for Littleport

WORKING FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO LITTLEPORT - OUR PRIORITIES 1 LITTLEPORT VISION 2030 Littleport is the first community in East Cambs to be chosen to receive a Combined Authority grant for the development of a Market Towns Strategy, and we are leading on this. Town Centre regeneration, increased employment opportunities and the development of digital technology will be included. 2 HOUSING We continue to collaborate on the developments which will provide Littleport with new Housing & Commercial areas allowing residents to live and work locally. We will ensure that Littleport receives the maximum benefit from new developments with new facilities. AFFORDABLE HOUSING 3 We will continue to encourage and promote the development of a Community Land Trust (CLT) which will deliver truly affordable housing for local people with ties to Littleport and key workers. PUBLIC TRANSPORT 4 We will continue to work hard to lobby for improved transport services. 5 YOUTH PROVISION We will continue to work with the Parish Council and other agencies to support our aspiration for a youth building and the development of a youth strategy. Conservatives deliver reduction in number of Councillors from 39 to 28 In 2014 when finances at the District Council were extremely challenging and before major changes to the management structure were made, Conservatives felt it was right to seek a reduction in the number of Councillors alongside the reduction in staff numbers. The Boundary Commission agreed, as did local residents (residents’ survey 2014), and in May 2019 the Council will go from 39 seats to 28. This means that the boundaries of Wards in East Cambridgeshire have been changed.

Littleport East & West Wards are merging and will have three instead of four councillors from May 2019. Christine & David Ambrose Smith and Jo Webber, who were elected as your District Councillors in 2015, will be standing again in May for Littleport. CONTACT US

Christine & David T: 01353 861 010, E: [email protected]

Jo: T: 01353 862 293, E: [email protected] LITTLEPORT CHILDREN & FAMILY CENTRE In 2018 Conservatives at the County Council drove forward plans to change the way Children’s Centre services are run, to get a fairer deal for the market towns and rural areas, reducing the running costs of buildings in order to deliver more frontline services. 210 ACTIVITIES IN LITTLEPORT’S CENTRE SINCE APRIL 18  Baby massage - 10 sessions  Maths & English for adults - 24 sessions Ignore Lib Dem  Development checks- 17 sessions  Introducing solids - 1 session scaremongering about  Little Explorers - 24 sessions closure of Children’s Centre  Midwifery clinics - 35 sessions services - services are  New arrivals - 39 sessions actually expanding!  Holiday activities - 5 sessions  Well baby clinic- 34 sessions  Early help support - 5 sessions  Hostel stay and play - 2 sessions  Messy Mondays - 3 sessions  Rhyme time - 10 sessions  Pop-up play - 1 sessions

PLUS we gave 1:1 intensive support to 18 Littleport based families between 1st April 2018 - 21st January 2019 TORY WAR ON POTHOLES Conservatives have injected an additional £13.1m this winter into maintenance of our highways, including Above: The Dragon Patchers can fix more than 1,000 potholes every week work on our footpaths

The LibDems like to moan about potholes (a lot!), yet they voted against the County Council Conservative budget proposals to increase highways maintenance two years in a row. Thanks to Conservatives, this winter will see an extra £13.1m for our highways and footpaths, which includes additional money secured from central Government. Further increases agreed by Conservatives and voted against by the opposition include extra money every year to 2023/24 - a total of £28.7m since the Beast from the East struck. With the County Council’s three new Dragon Patchers, which can each repair up to 150 potholes per day, Conservatives have committed £28.7m and got the right machinery in place to improve our highways and make your journeys easier.

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