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Promoted by Jane Kilby on behalf of Roger Barrow and Colin Rickman of Chichester Conservative Assoc, St John’s House, St John’s St, Chichester, PO19 1UU.
Our job as Chichester District Councillors will be to take decisions in the best interests of the whole community, especially Selsey, regardless of political persuasion.
With local elections coming up in May 2023, it will be important for you to consider what you should expect from your District Councillors. We would define that phrase ”best interests” in the form of six basic principles which guide the decisions we would support for the the Cabinet (the executive team of senior councillors) either take or recommend to the full Council.
- Firstly, we must be financially prudent, operating within our means and recognising it is not the council’s money we are spending but your money in the form of council tax or, if you run a business, the rates you are paying.
- Secondly, we must make sure the District Council’s 80 plus services are run efficiently and not hesitate to ask someone else to run them if they can do it more efficiently, as the Council did with our leisure services a few years ago.
- Thirdly, we want to ensure everyone who chooses to work has the opportunity to get a job. The Council must help businesses to thrive and individuals to have work. That’s why the 82-unit
- Enterprise Centre was set up by the Council for small and start-up businesses.
- Fourthly, we must help the most needy and most vulnerable in the community. We must help those made homeless to get decent accommodation and make sure the most needy pay little or no council tax.
- Fifthly, we must do all we can through the planning system to provide sufficient homes for all, particularly affordable homes, in suitable places.
- Sixthly, we must preserve both our fine towns and beautiful countryside and foster our sense of
- community, living peaceably with each other.