It’s been a busy year for your three Lib Dem FOCUS Team Councillors:

Save our Post Offices
The Labour Government is proposing to close 2,500 post offices - that means NINE in Bury alone. Disgracefully, they’ve put off telling us which ones will close until after the local elections!. Your local councillors are campaigning to save our much needed local post offices like the post office at St Margarets.

Play Facilities
After years of campaigning, new children’s play facilities have been installed at Bailey Street after a design competition in a local school. Funding has been secured and plans are now in their final stages to improve security at Heaton Park school, and build a new Under 5’s play area.  Funding is also secured for “ball zone” for older children near Parrenthorn school.

Budget Success
In the recent Council Budget discussions the Lib Dem team of Councillors from Prestwich successfully secured a boost areas like Prestwich with more money for parks, more money for street cleaning and litter enforcement and stopped “cuts” to youth services  and services for vulnerable children. We refused to support a disgraceful Labour proposal that would have meant cutting £1 million off  much needed help for vulnerable adults with disabilities and children in need.

Bury in the Balance
After the elections last year - no one Party has  “control” of Bury Council. Your local Lib Dem Councillors refused to enter into a coalition with either of the other parties - we vote on  a case by case basis in the best interests of the people we represent.  Proud of Prestwich
After 21 years of neglect while the Labour Party ran Bury,  your local Lib Dems have secured investment to plan for the future of our Prestwich “Village Centre”. We want to see a village that we can all be proud of and are asking local people to “have their say”.

Keeping in Touch
We’ve kept in touch with local people ALL YEAR ROUND with our popular “FOCUS” newsletters - delivered free of charge to every house in Holyrood. You can new keep up with our work “online” as each of your local councillors has a regularly updated councillor’s website.

No Charge
Your local Councillors have consistently opposed the proposal to introduce a “Congestion Charge” proposed by the Labour led Greater Manchester authorities. We support the need to tackle climate change - but to charge local people for driving between Whitefield and Prestwich is the wrong answer.  People are rightly concerned what this would do to our area.

Local Champions
Your local Lib Dem Councillors have stood up for our local area all year round:
• supported local people opposing planning applications on Sandgate Road and the Polefield Shops
• Worked with the Police to tackle youth nuisance and crime
• Worked with local community groups such as the Simister Village Community Association and Polefiel’s TRA.