Spring 2005
Thank You Gordon!
Labour's Sutton Coldfield campaigner Dr. Rob Pocock met Chancellor Gordon Brown on his recent visit
and thanked him for giving Britain:
- Lowest unemployment rates in 29 years
- Lowest inflation rates since the 60s
- Lowest mortgage rates for 40 years
- Longest period of continued economic growth for 200 years
Britain is working.
Don't let the Conservatives wreck it again!
Lib Dem let down
Did YOU vote for the Lib Dems in the elections here last summer?
- Did YOU know that the LibDems have now joined a Pact with the Conservatives to run Birmingham City Council?
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Many residents are up in arms about it.
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"The Lib Dems claimed they were an alternative to the Conservatives in Sutton.
Now they've gone and ioined a pact with them' said one outraged voter.
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Former Lib Dem Councillor Ron Whitehouse is now backing Labour's Rob Pocock.
TheLibDems have betrayed their own voters " he said.
"Rob's an honest man and he won't let people down.”
'Dr Rob' backs
Labour's tough new
action on anti-social
behaviour -
It's more
ACTION
on crime!
Labour's Rob Pocock has welcomed new government money
coming to Sutton Coldfield to combat graffiti, vandalism, antisocial
behaviour and binge drinking.
"All too often the lives of
honest people are being
plagued by the actions of a tiny few.
Labour's new cash for Sutton, coupled with our new
crime laws, mean we can at last get tough on the troublemakers"
Rob told a recent press briefing.
There's also extra money for more police and new
environmental wardens to clean up rubbish and graffiti.
"But
calling for more police is not enough" said Rob. "We don't
need cheap headlines, we need a proper strategy to invest in
community and leisure facilities, environmental clean-ups,
more streetlights and a more attractive Sutton Town centre.
Labour is the only Party to provide this all-round investment".
Building Blight -
Rob launches new policy to protect Sutton Coldfield
Rob Pocock has launched a new five part plan to stem the tide of building sweeping through Sutton Coldfield.
- Tougher controls on the free market in private land development using new powers to limit the right to build.
- Set an agreed limit on the total acceptable number of houses in Sutton Coldfield this would be a limit agreed under
Regional Planning Guidance in line with the Government's new Housing Plan published last month.
- Require developers to reach an acceptable agreement with a local residents' Planning Forum on the size and scale
of individual sites.
- Require developers to pay a 'Per property' contribution towards public services such as Doctors and Schools, which
cannot otherwise cope with the increased housing.
- Introduce a support scheme to help older people who want to move to smaller local properties, and not lose their capital.
Larger properties would then be available to meet demand.
The Conservatives complain about the housing problem, but their own free market ideology means they oppose
tougher public planning controls on developers.
. Do YOU know places that need a 'clean up/ green up'?
Write with details to Rob at
Sutton Coldfield Campaign
Centre,
46 Rectory Park Ave,
B75 7BN
or use this feedback form.
More Campaign Action from Dr Rob Pocock
Sutton's strongest challenger to the Conservatives