- Labour has a real chance of gaining 4 more seats in this election to give us a small majority and so able to restore a fairer distribution of the available resources to Blakenall. Our long struggles to get proper road repairs done promptly and regularly will end. We have had some success as in Oak Crescent and around Leamore Park but has taken far to long while other areas of Walsall have had much more.
- Blakenall has been given second best for too long with those in charge deciding that we will make do with a worse standard. That will and must end. Tipping is cleared within 3 days over the rest of Walsall and more money spent on roads per year in Pelsall than in Blakenall, Bloxwich Eat and West combined.
- There are many powers of enforcement and prosecution around fly tipping, litter dropping, failure by the few irresponsible dog owners to clear up after their pet, breaking of planning rules such as running a scrap business from their home residence, non enforcement of tenancy agreements, absent landlords that allow their property to be let to dreadful tenants, owners of empty properties which must be brought back into use , owners of open spaces or parks whether it be the Council , Walsall Housing group or others who allow this land to be used as a tippers paradise and do not maintain these open spaces to allow residents and their children to use these important community assets.
- We would also then hold the chair of the planning committee and pledge that decisions taken there will fully reflect the views and wishes of local residents and not the wishes of big business.
- If elected, the immediate priority will be to resolve the way forward and modify the Goscote development plan to fully reflect the concerns and fears of residents in the immediate vicinity of this site.
- I am certain that if the Council remains run by the Tories after May Blakenall library will be closed and Bloxwich Leisure centre will be privatised.
- The Blakenall Labour team have worked hard together to make a real difference to our ward.. the prospect of becoming a responsible controlling group will , after 12 years of Tory control , give us the power to bring faster and fairer change to Blakenall.
- If re-elected, the proposal to introduce a licensing system for those who deal in scrap will be introduced , similar to the way taxis are licensed. Those who deal with ‘tat’ from their home address and so cause nuisance to their neighbours will not get a licence and so will be stopped.
- There are a number of areas where we must establish a local community group to have real say in how their area is run.. the flats and properties in Walker Road and Newhome way now the doors have been fixed; the area of Poets and Goscote with future plans to discuss and the current area to maintain properly ; friends groups to re-establish such as for Leamore Park, the open space around Cannon Street North, a number of areas in North Walsall to work closely with our excellent beat Sergeant . We hold weekly surgeries on Thursdays 12 noon at Ryecroft Community centre Ryecroft place and attend the police surgery monthly at St Thomas of Canterbury church hall , last Wednesday of each month 6.30pm.
- If re-elected ,as someone who has worked in our NHS for 40 years, I will play a lead role in the Health and Well being board set up to monitor the changes in our NHS and address especially the health inequalities that effect Blakenall.
- I will bring all partners together, the police, Walsall Housing group, the Council and our re-organised health service to take joined up and sustained action to make a real difference.
- There must be better joined up action to coordinate the excellent work of the voluntary sector and schemes to provide real apprenticeship places that will lead to real jobs
- I serve on two local schools Harden JMI and North Walsall Primary which are moving towards becoming academies and need good advice and support .
- I serve as a director on New Horizons and will support that organisation to become a focus for sustainable community development for the whole of North Walsall.
- I am secretary of Blakenall United Reformed Church Blakenall Lane and director of the linked organisation Comex supporting homeless people.
Hope you will consider voting for me on My 3rd in Blakenall! Thanks
Ian Robertson
ublished by electronic means byIan Robertson 87 Belvidere Road walsall WS1 3AU
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