As part of the £22 million of savings in this year’s budget Labour run Milton Keynes Council were proposing to cut the maintenance budget for play areas by 50% over the next three years.   This would have resulted in the closure of many Play Areas. The Lib Dems have got that stopped, at least […]

The Labour run Council’s original budget proposals included cutting the Number 24/25, which is an important direct link to the hospital and the Open University.   My ward colleague Cllr Paul Alexander led a successful campaign to save the 24/25 bus, and the Lib Dem budget amendment reinstated this important bus route.

The Labour Council gave in to the pressure from residents, the Liberal Democrats and others to retain the warden service in sheltered housing schemes, but they wanted to charge those pensioners on housing benefit, who currently get the service for free, £5 per week.   The Liberal Democrats won the argument that our least well […]

  Although concerned about the impact on MK of the Conservative Government cuts forcing a £22M cut to the Council’s budget, the Lib Dems made a number of important changes to the budget last night (17th February).   As the Lib Dem Cabinet member who introduced the popular pink sack scheme about 13 years ago […]

  The Liberal Democrats will be moving the following amendment to Labour’s proposed budget on the 17th February.   “That the Council affirms the following strategic principles guiding its budget decision-making process: • That the Council should prioritise the vulnerable and avoid targeting savings proposals at those least able to bear them. • That the […]

  The Newport Pagnell Focus Team has been advised of a part road closure in Giffard Park. The date of closure has been given as the 29th February 2016 However, this date is subject to prevailing factors such as weather or delays on other works. Road to be Closed That part of Hainault Avenue, Giffard […]

I was delighted to be able to make a financial donation from my ward budget to the Brooklands Centre towards their replacement crockery. The Brooklands Centre is a great asset for Newport Pagnell, and among other things they provide lunches for the elderly.

The Labour Council is trying to use the budget process as a means to make major changes to Milton Keynes recycling scheme.   The last time Labour ran the Council recycling rates fell by a third. When the Lib Dems ran the Council recycling rates increased FIVE fold.   I was the Lib Dem Cabinet […]

My Focus Team colleagues, Cllrs Paul Alexander and Derek Eastman, and I have been campaigning for some years to get the link footpath built between Barnsbury Gardens and Green Farm Road which was in the original plans for the area. We secured the agreement of the Council to build the footpath and managed to secure […]

An application will be put forward to Milton Keynes Council in February by Redrow Homes to build 91 dwellings on the old Aston Martin site in Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell, which has been purchased by Tesco. The firm of house builders is anxious to obtain planning permission for the development but would like to give […]