Our Blog Posts

  • Week 1 as a County Councillor

    Thank you to everyone who voted for me. Thank you to everyone who welcomed us on your doorstep. Thank you to everyone who voted Labour. Thank you to everyone who voted at all. Democracy is so vital to our way of life (and this is why I am very upset about the new law in…

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  • Show Nottinghamshire Council that You Care What They Are Doing in Radcliffe and Gamston

    Turn out and vote this Thursday 6th May: show our council that you are paying attention to what they are doing in Radcliffe and Gamston

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  • We Need Councillors to Represent What We Want for the Future

    Nottinghamshire County Council is failing to deliver on targets for environment, and it’s not clear that the current Councillors really care about actually making things better. Councillors like to be seen planting a tree here, or opening an electric charging point there, but when it comes to it: these are just small, corporatised attempts of…

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  • Radcliffe Needs a Councillor who Looks Ahead at what Residents will Need in the Future

    Affordable housing is in short supply, and there are plans to build as many as 1000 homes in Radcliffe which will dramatically affect life in the village. Such a massive population influx is going to have a big impact on Radcliffe life over the next few years: but it is not clear that our Councillors…

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  • New Schools on Regatta Way

    For many years the need for school places in Rushcliffe has been growing and schools have struggled to keep up. With so many new homes being built, it has got to the point that many children are now unable to get into their local school and are having to travel out-of-area, away from their friends.…

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  • Our Council Should Support the NHS to Improve Radcliffe’s Health Centre

    The Health Centre in Radcliffe is already too small, and with 1000 homes due to be built in the next few years, everybody agrees that we need an expanded facility. New, modern Health Centre facilities would be really great for Radcliffe but it is really important also to think about where it should be and…

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  • Nottinghamshire Council Should do more to keep our National Cycle Routes Safe

    Holme lane forms part of Nottinghamshire’s National Cycle Route 15 and if the condition of this road wasn’t so terrible it could have been a beautiful route away from the A52 for cyclists, and walkers who want to visit Skylarks Nature reserve and the National Watersports Centre. Unfortunately, many are prevented from being able to…

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  • We Should Invest to Improve Radcliffe’s Library

    Even though Councils are required by law to provide “comprehensive” Library services, it is down to local decision makers what this actually means. Some of Nottinghamshire’s Libraries have received substantial investment to improve facilities, but our overall Library budget has been slashed over the last few years. This means that the strain of cuts has…

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  • The New Schools Plan

    The New Schools Plan

    Expensive, wrong and too late

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  • Citizen’s Assembly and CEE Bill

    On the 4th of March 2021 I submitted a motion to the full council on behalf of the Rushcliffe Labour Group. We wre asking the Council to form a citizen’s assembly and voice it’s support for the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill. I believe that this is the most important issue of our time, it…

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