About Charlie Loveday
Hi! I’m Charlie.

Full statement

I live in Wood Street and love our community here. The creativity and diversity of talent that we have both in Wood Street and the wider borough never ceases to amaze me. It’s something the council could do so much more to unlock.

I work in community involvement, and have spent my working life across local government and the NHS helping organisations meaningfully involve local people in the decisions and planning processes that shape their lives. I’m standing not to speak on behalf of residents, but to make sure the council genuinely has to listen to them.

What Charlie stands for
I want to be a councillor who sees their job not as managing the decline of the borough, but as building the power of the people in it.

Local democracy can be more than a consultation letter that arrives after the decision is made. It can mean residents shaping proposals from the start. Budgets opened up for real scrutiny. Developers held to the promises they make. These aren’t technical decisions that require expert answers, they require lived experience.

Wood Street is full of people who know what needs to change. What’s been missing is a council willing to hear it.