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Dave Stewart

Dave Stewart is Conservative county councillor for Niton and Whitwell.

He is also Group leader of the Isle of Wight Conservative councillors.

On 18th January 2017, Cllr Stewart was elected as Leader of the Isle of Wight council, following the resignation of Jonathan Bacon (Island Independents).

He was leader of the Isle of Wight council from 2017 to 2021, when he lost his seat to Green Party councillor, Claire Critchley.

Below are some articles that feature Dave Stewart.

11, September 2019·1 min read

IW council leader says housing target needs reducing

The Isle of Wight council leader says they have to be careful how they approach it, but asked all councillors to help the authority build its case.

22, March 2019·2 min read

IW MP launches petition against Government’s housing target

The Isle of Wight MP believes the draft Island Plan "has some good proposals in it", but has "several concerns, not least that this housing would be unaffordable for Islanders". He wants your views and has set up a petition.

26, January 2017·1 min read

IWC Leader: Criticisms were ‘disingenuous and unfounded’

The Leader of council accuses the Indie group Leader of levelling "disingenuous and unfounded criticisms" over the election of a new Chair of the Scrutiny Committee, saying the Committee would have been more than able to elect its own Chair.

19, January 2021·1 min read

IWC taking legal action, but who is responsible for the design of Floating Bridge 6?

The company being named by the Isle of Wight council as the "designer" of Cowes Floating Bridge 6 has previously claimed they were "not responsible for the design"

19, January 2022·1 min read

Joe Robertson: Brief profile of new IW Conservative leader’s political history

Joe Robertson is being nominated as chairperson to oversee corporate scrutiny. Here's a brief profile of the new leader of the Isle of Wight Conservative councillors

21, April 2020·1 min read

Key workers mobile Coronavirus testing unit confirmed for the Isle of Wight

Several partners have been working hard to ensure key workers do not need to cross the Solent to be tested for Coronavirus (Covid-19)

10, May 2017·1 min read

Labour councillor condemns Conservative attack on democracy

A return to the Cabinet system, removal of named votes and the questions to Cabinet members at full council being scrapped are just some of the changes planned by the Conservative administration say the Labour councillor.

27, April 2020·4 min read

Latest on Government business grants: Possible hope for those fallen through the cracks

There may be some hope for those businesses who don't fit the criteria for the Government grants but have still been impacted by the Coronavirus crisis. Cllr Dave Stewart explains

17, January 2019·1 min read

Leader of council’s confused response to question on carbon neutrality commitment

Onlookers were left wondering whether the leader of the Isle of Wight council had even read the letter from the 'climate emergency' march last week, when he was asked a question about it at last night's meeting and replied by talking about a different subject.

17, January 2017·2 min read

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