Today sees the second in our series of top three priorities of newly-elected Isle of Wight councillors.
A while back News OnTheWight got in touch with each of them, asking to share their top three priorities with our readers.
Five article series
All but one did, so over a series of five articles you’ll be able to learn a little more about your local representatives. If they sent us more than three (only a couple did), we took the first of them.
There are 39 of them, so we have split them up geographically – North; Central; East; South and Bay; and West – this has led to some slightly funny splits, but we can only work with the areas that the Boundary Commission have decided :)
Here are the elected councillors for the northern region and their top three priorities.
Cowes Medina – Lora Peacey Wilcox
- Parking or rather lack of ………
- Cowes Medical Centre/dentists
- Dog fouling, rubbish, overhanging obstructions to pavements
Cowes North – Richard Quigley
- Building community wealth, following the Preston council model
- Eliminating child poverty
- Regenerating our high streets
Cowes South and Northwood – John Nicholson
- Develop the Cowes/ Northwood Place Plan, taking in the marvellous opportunities it presents for the Islands Northern peninsula
- See/ help Cowes Medical Centre become one of the best on the Island
- Drive reform in arriving at a Crystal Mark Planning Policy that serves the needs and wishes of our residents and businesses
Cowes West and Gurnard – Paul Fuller
- To be open, accessible and be a hardworking Councillor and be part of a Council that listens, cares and acts to residents feedback
- To use my position to protect, enhance and safeguard access to our environment, town centres and seafronts
- To support the roll out of our Island Plan and ensure future housing figures are sensible, sustainable and driven by community need
East Cowes – Karl Love
- Inclusivity and communication
- Making our town a better place to live and work
- Replacing the Floating Bridge and regeneration of our historic Esplanade
Fairlee and Whippingham – Matthew Price
- Find solutions to help ease the traffic congestion into Newport via Fairlee and Staplers and the rat-running through the Staplers Estate
- Ensure a successful relocation of Newport FC either to the Racecourse or preferred relocation to Seaclose
- Progress the Newport to Wootton cycle path on the old railway route
Osborne – Stephen Hendry
- Protect our Community from inappropriate development
- Support education and local families in our town
- Secure the completion of the Saunders Way link road
Wootton Bridge – Daryll Pitcher
- A 20mph speed limit on residential streets
- Stopping the over development of Wootton Bridge
- Secure local services such as ensuring a local Post Office
