Manifesto 2012

Conservative Manifesto for Gloucester City Council elections 2012

We will:

  • Keep the council tax down – This year we’ve frozen it and we’ll do our best to do so again.
  • Make the council as efficient as possible and continue to improve the performance of services.
  • Continue to regenerate the City – particularly the areas around Kings Square, the Bus Station and the Railway Triangle.
  • Actively manage the city centre to ensure it is a successful retail and leisure destination – with a strong daytime and evening economy.
  • Work with others to promote training, apprenticeships and jobs in the city.
  • Work to attract new businesses to Gloucester, particularly among high growth sectors.
  • Promote opportunities to take part in the Big Society – giving community groups more power, removing obstacles to making things happen, creating more opportunities for volunteering and protecting funding for the voluntary sector.
  • Promote Gloucester as a historic city – increasing access to our historic buildings, restoring and better presenting our monuments like the Eastgate Chamber.
  • Hold top quality events in the city – like the Tall Ships Festival.  We will make the Summer Festival more of a community-run event, we will build on the city’s Christmas festivities and we will look to develop a History Festival.
  • Support sport in the city – by helping Gloucester City FC to return home to Meadow Park, carrying out improvements to the Blackbridge athletics track and supporting the Rowing Club’s ambitious plans for a new clubhouse.
  • Review the provision of public toilets and provide a new facility in the city centre if necessary.  We will ensure new public toilets are provided as part of the Kings Quarter redevelopment.
  • Seek to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill by making recycling even easier and more convenient.
  • Crack down on littering, dog fouling and fly-tipping, prosecuting whenever appropriate.
  • Find new ways to provide environmentally sustainable colour and greenery in the city.
  • Seek to provide affordable housing as part of new developments, bring empty homes back into use and review the future management of our council housing stock.