Caitlin Bisknell Listening to High Peak Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for High Peak The choice in High Peak is clear “The choice in next year’s general election could not be clearer” says Caitlin Bisknell, Labour’s parliamentary can- Manchester Credit Union didate for High Peak. It is a choice between a Labour party that fights for, and comes to High Peak cares about, ordinary working people, or a Tory par- ty intent on giving tax cuts to the rich while penalising hard-working families. Caitlin Bisknell has spent the last 18 months knocking on doors and talking to people about what concerns them, both locally and nationally. “I know from listening to local people that families are making really difficult decisions, balancing paying fuel bills and rents or mortgages, with buying food and school uniforms. “We should not be asking ordinary working families in High Peak, who are already striving to beat the cost-of- living crisis, to make an even bigger contribution. How can it be right to take £3bn away from ordinary families, while giving a £3bn tax break to the richest 1%? Following its success in Gamesley, the Manchester Credit Union is now extending its services to Glos- “Unlike the Tories, Labour has set out how it will fund sop, Hadfield, New Mills, Fairfield and Buxton – its pledges – and offered to get them independently thanks to funding from Labour-led High Peak Borough assessed by the Government’s own Office for Budget and Derbyshire County Councils. Responsibility.” Labour’s parliamentary candidate for High Peak, Labour will: Caitlin Bisknell, said: “Manchester Credit Union has • Put £2.5bn into the NHS to pay for nurses, GPs, care been a great success in Gamesley where it chased workers and midwives. payday lenders out of the area. I am delighted that the Credit Union will soon be operating across High • Cut taxes for 24 million working people on middle and Peak, offering a much-needed service to residents.” low incomes, with a lower 10p starting rate of tax. For more information about Manchester Credit Union, • Freeze energy bills till 2017. including venues and opening times, in High Peak • Provide 25 hours of free childcare every week for three check out: http://www.highpeak.gov.uk/hp/coun- and four-year-old children with working parents. cil-services/manchester-credit-union-in-high-peak/ opening-times • Reduce tuition fees by £3,000. Caitlin Bisknell 124 Brown Edge Rd, Buxton, SK17 7AB tel: 01298 71368 email: [email protected] Promoted by Andrew Uprichard, on behalf of High Peak Labour Party, both of 1 Alexandra Road, Buxton, SK17 9NQ Printed by Greatledge of Malaga House, Pink Bank Lane, Longsight, Manchester M12 5GH Labour – working hard for you in the High Peak all year round New £20m secondary school for Glossopdale Labour – investing in education & our future Labour’s parliamentary candidate Caitlin Bisknell has wel- While the new school is being built, all students will be Across High Peak, we have recently seen evidence that While Labour is investing in schools across High Peak, comed ambitious plans to build a new secondary school taught on the Talbot Road and Talbot House sites in Glos- Ofsted inspections are becoming politicised, with the aim the Tory-LibDem coalition spent a whopping £18m on for Glossopdale. sop. Once complete, the Talbot Road and Talbot House of pushing more and more schools down the academy one free school in London with just 17 pupils! sites will be sold for development, with cash from the sale route, often against the wishes of parents and staff. “This is solid proof that Labour is serious about education; In the past year, Labour Derbyshire County Council has helping to fund the new single-site school. it is recognition that students and teachers need a good In Derbyshire, Labour is investing money in helping provided nearly £1m funding for new classrooms in working environment. It is a sign of the importance that Building work is due to start in mid-2015 and is expected schools to improve performance through partnership Buxton, Hadfield and Gamesley, with a further £3.75m Labour places on investing in our young people and our to take two years. working with other schools, as is now happening at New spent on school repairs and invested in solar panels at future. Mills School. In neighbouring Chapel-en-le-Frith, Labour’s Hayfield Primary School. Caitlin is pictured with Glossopdale county councillors Caitlin Bisknell was one of the first to back the primary “I know that staff, governors, parents and students are de- Damien Greenhalgh, Dave Wilcox and Ellie Wilcox. school in its fight against forced academisation. lighted with the news – and have lobbied hard for a new school – “Over the past four years, parents, pupils and teachers and I am delighted that thanks to have come to realise the implications of Tory rule: larger Labour Derbyshire County Council, class sizes and lower teacher morale. their efforts have finally paid off.” “Only the Labour party wants parents to have Under the scheme, the Hadfield the choice which matters to them: a good local site will be demolished with a school, qualified teachers and a curriculum that new school, youth and community stretches the whole child.” centre being built on the News- haw Lane site. High Peak Rose Autumn 2014 Labour – working hard in the High Peak all year round Crunch time for The Crescent The long-running saga of Buxton’s Crescent could soon be over, following news that the final funding bid has been Housing would be submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund and D2N2, the local enterprise partnership for Derbyshire. best use for Nestlé site The former Nestle bottling plant – between the railway station and Aldi – is a key site for redevel- opment. Large brownfield sites close to town centres don’t become available often. Caitlin Bisknell said, “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity; we must get it right. We’ll live with the decision for the rest of the century.” The Council consulted extensively when drawing up a draft Local Plan, concluding that the best use for this Caitlin is pictured with Buxton councillors Jean Todd and Keith Savage site would be new housing and retail. All evidence shows that if you want towns to be safe and vibrant Labour’s parliamentary candidate for High Peak, Caitlin then you need people living at their heart. Bisknell said: “It is unbelievable that the Tory Government has refused to back The Crescent project. First it withdrew Nestlé seems determined to ignore local opinion and a promised £5m grant, then it refused funding through the proceed with a planning application for a large new regional growth fund, not once but four times. supermarket. Caitlin says, “Regardless of “It has been left to Labour-led High Peak and Derbyshire how Nestlé dresses County councils to pick up the pieces and to step in where this up, they are just the Government and banks have failed. looking to make as “The redevelopment of The Crescent will create around much money as they 800 jobs, directly and indirectly, for local people, as well can for themselves. as training opportunities. 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