As a campaigner since 2009 and as a parish councillor twice since 2017, I have often spoken up on reducing energy bills, safer highways, safe pavements, protection of woodland and green spaces.

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I am very concerned about central government plans to make 5 East Kent
councils into one, in the half of Kent with highest need, and lowest tax raising capacity. I was at protests in Maidstone and the House of Lords to ask for better in January 2025.
East Kent deserves more from KCC than 15 years of Conservative cuts to
services and cuts to councils which continue under Labour.
The new KCC council after 2025 will have a voice in shaping sweeping
local government changes. Ministers in London want planning to be
centralised in Maidstone under a new Kent mayoral authority.
In the villages of Dover North we need to protect our food-growing
fields, our wildlife habitats. The district needs to build the cheap to
heat, low energy homes, in the right places close to services, to be
sold or rented at genuinely affordable prices to solve the housing
crisis.
As a planning spokesperson for our local party, I worked on our
submission on the DDC Local Plan. I met many parish level campaigners at
the hearings in November 2023. Planning decisions must be made close to
the communities who have local knowledge of traffic and land use. And
be subject to scrutiny.
If elected to KCC I will stand up for this principle on all occasions.