When elected on 5 May, our candidates will make a difference. These are our priorities for Adur, developed as a result of listening to the community.
We believe local people are taken for granted by the current Conservative-led council. We are on your side. We will listen to you and take action:
- Community – we listen to you because this is your place; your community must make the decisions
- Environment – cutting pollution, improving air quality, insulating council homes, more green space
- Towns – Prosperity plan for jobs and homes for all, winning investments from national funding schemes
- Family – secure and safe social housing using local firms and people. Support services for young and elderly people.
Community – your community will make the decisions
- The community decides what is needed to make Adur even better
- to live in
- to work in
- to do business in and
- to get around
- A community-led plan for Adur
- Neighbourhoods deciding their future – power to your neighbourhood!
Environment
- Faster action to tackle the climate emergency and reduce pollution – working with the community and local businesses
- Better local green spaces, parks and playgrounds
- No to sewage in our streets, rivers and sea
- Food-waste collections
- Safe routes for walking and cycling
- Skills courses for a local green economy
Towns and our village
- Any new developments must serve the needs of the community – social housing, community space, support for health services, schools, public transport, active travel.
- Safe and clean town centres – improved public spaces
- Priority to local businesses for council contracts,
- Bids for funding for improvements to town centres, parks and amenities
- Promote the area to attract more visitors, boosting our local economy
- Any new development includes homes to rent that are within reach of people on typical local wages
- Secure and safe social housing
- More homes for people with a disability
- Local emergency accommodation
- A fair deal for council tenants – timely, good quality repairs, insulated homes to cut energy bills and reduce emissions that harm the environment
Family and well-being
- Partnership with community groups to identify the support needed to reduce poverty in local neighbourhoods
- Improved energy efficiency of council housing – a review of the need and costs of improving council home insulation and energy use, reducing fuel poverty and benefiting the environment
- Those who need it receive discounts on their council tax
- Help and advice to those in need of support at a time of rising food and energy costs
- Concessionary access to leisure facilities
- Restoring and supporting access to mental health services
