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EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS 2017
A Message from County Council Candidate Wendy Dash, Pevensey and Stone Cross Division
I am delighted to have been selected as your Liberal Democrat candidate for the forthcoming County Council election.
I have lived in Normans Bay, which is in the parish of St Nicholas Pevensey for over 40 years.
I was a founding committee member of the St. Wilfrid’s Mother and Toddler group, our children went to Stone Cross Playgroup and my daughter was a Stone Cross Brownie. I support the St. Wilfrid’s Country Market.
My first job after moving here was at All Saints Geriatric Hospital, where I worked as an assistant in Occupational therapy. Our main aim was to rehabilitate our patients to enable them to return home. My final job was at Sussex Downs. For 10 years I was a librarian and the last 5 years I worked as a Pastoral Tutor dealing with 100 students a year, getting them ready for work or university.
Since retiring, I volunteer at Charleston Farmhouse and I deliver library books to the housebound.
I would welcome the opportunity to work for you and for change in Pevensey & Stone Cross.
In Pevensey & Stone Cross.
Maintaining our sea defences and protecting the Pevensey Levels delicate nature balance is a top priority for me and the Liberal Democrat team. We don’t want to allow any development to encroach upon them either directly or indirectly.
One of the factors that should constrain new developments in this part of Wealden is drainage water in the levels. Unfortunately this is just part of the development infrastructure not properly planned for by East Sussex as a county – for example by proactively working with water authorities, and urging Wealden to do the same.
We will push the county to begin – at last – to ensure that coupled with any new housing developments, there are school places and medical facilities. I think maintaining and improving our roads to be capable of coping with the real level of traffic they have to bear, is a necessity .
I also believe that we need to preserve our few public amenities, not propose that there be yet more cuts.
Five Key issues for our Division
1. Sensitive and affordable housing development with the highest environmental standards, sensible infrastructure improvements and reflecting local wishes on planning. Local plans, emerging and in place must be supported. Many concerned residents spend considerable time and thought on them.
2. Safer rural roads. I shall do all I can to fight for slower traffic, improved road maintenance and better road safety for all our communities. This includes parking restrictions and enforcement. Our streets are blighted by inconsiderate parking but solutions are available where there is sufficient political will to do so.
3. Schools – there is a new threat to school funding. Children should be able to attend Primary Schools as close to home as possible. Such schools contribute enormously to the sustainability of local communities.
4. More funding for Social Care. Help for the elderly, disabled and vulnerable younger adults. Conservatives at Lewes have increased your taxes by 5% while cutting vital front line services. Once again they ignored the LibDem’s fully costed alternative budget that would have protected many of those services.
5. Support for local businesses, bringing jobs and prosperity to the area by encouraging tourism and cooperation between Councils and business organisations
