Telford & Wrekin Conservative Councillor for Muxton Ward
Telford and Wrekin performs badly on the Royal Society for Public Health 2018 Healthy of the high street report. This interesting report combines factors known to perpetuate an unhealthy lifestyle and then ranks Local Authorities accordingly. Telford as the town where industry began ought to be the richest town in the UK / Rest of […]
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Our campaign for a separate Parish Council for Muxton has been moving forward albeit not as a rapidly as myself and Cllr Nigel Dugmore would have wished. We collected signatures from the summer last year on-wards and a very big thanks for all those residents of Muxton who kindly signed up to our petition. I […]
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Now that we are getting closer to leaving the EU which at the time of writing this will be next month! We can start to think about promoting British products again, the last time the Conservatives ran Telford and Wrekin Council I had the priviledge to be the Cabinet member for Resources (finance) and one […]
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The Muxton Outdoor Gym is a great highlight from mine and Cllr Nigel Dugmore term in office, this was funded by a S106 agreement (money from developers) from the C2/C3 development, which at the time was one of the most disliked and resisted developments in the history of Telford and Wrekin Council, but some good […]
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Our public meeting on Wednesday 13th February was well attended, my colleague Cllr Phil Loughlin led the meeting and explained the benefits of designating Muxton Lane as a quiet lane (rather than a quite lane as officers seems to keep spelling it on their plans). This gives the road a little extra protection from a […]
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Cllr Peter Scott is currently our only Independent Councillor on Telford and Wrekin Council. He announces himself as a “True Independent” but I have noted that whilst a good communicator and seemingly a hard working ward members, his voting record appears to be very one sided. He represents an area of Newport Shropshire on T&W […]
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We’ve been having good feedback from residents on the Speed indicator signs that have been put up on Marshbrook Way, they do act as a deterrent. This was an initiative from Donnington and Muxton Parish Council on which I sit and represent Muxton along with Cllr Nigel Dugmore. Other highways measures are being considered for […]
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Cllr Bill Tomlinson is a great friendly guy, well respected and well liked around the Council and his own Ward of Shawbirch Telford, but talking with residents on the couple of occasions I have been out with the Conservative Candidate for Shawbirch Cllr Anthony Lowe, I’ve been asked how supportive, if at at all Bill […]
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Debt is a major concern of local residents and the current Labour Administration is borrowing heavily to invest, whilst investing is usually a positive thing, taking on excessive long term debt is not. This is an area we in the Conservative and Labour disagree strongly on. Debt at the end of the last Conservative Council […]
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The Telford and Wrekin Liberal Democrats currently hold three seats on the Council, Bill and Karen Tomlinson and Karen Blundell. These are all long serving and experienced Councillors and by all accounts work hard in their respective wards and have done so over their many years on the Council. Looking closely at the their voting […]
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