I am honoured to be chosen as candidate for this wonderful part of Winchester where I live with my family.

Full statement

Oliver’s Battery, like many other places in the South of Winchester, is a great community close to the countryside. People here worry about the pollution of our rivers, litter in our countryside, air pollution and noise as well as the light pollution from the nearby M3 compound.

I pledge to protect our beautiful countryside from ever increasing threats from unwanted developments like the application for a new industrial and retail estate at the former Bushfield Camp. This plan will harm the area that had been left alone for many decades. We will lose wonderful views and important habitats and it will create an extra 4000+ daily car journeys along Badger Farm Road.

Winchester needs to be much smarter when planning new developments! I propose: - Only build what the community needs. (No to posh overpriced houses that normal people can’t afford.) - Develop only on real brownfield sites near the city centre - Connect housing, public services, work and retail planning for communities (avoid sleeping ghettos) - Get the infrastructure right: Harvest rainwater, Build sufficient sewage treatment works - Stop sealing off surfaces that will increase flooding

I have been a campaigner to improve accessibility of Badger Farm Road junctions for many years but current councillors have not achieved any improvements.

I want to see more and better bus connections connecting Hursley, Compton, Olivers Battery and Shawford with Winchester reliably so that we don’t have to rely on our cars all the time.