This week as Your Councillor

Concerns over Labour budgets and how we are making the community better

This Week as Your Councillor

A quick round-up of this week’s work in the parish and beyond:

🛍️ Caught up with casework from the fantastic Orbital Market last Saturday

💬 Spoke with residents about Council Tax and why parish precepts have gone up. Many services cut by Swindon Borough Council, due to a £14.7 million overspend by our Labour-run Borough, now fall to parishes. That includes weed spraying

🌿 Cleanliness is a top concern. Haydon Wick Parish have now budgeted to start weed spraying based on resident feedback

🤝 Met with Swindon Borough Council to improve the Working Together framework

❓ Investigating why the Borough has started charging parishes for some licences without notice

🚌 Spoke with residents about concerns over SEND transport. New Labour taxes will increase costs to Swindon Borough Council and risk reducing services for vulnerable families

🚶‍♂️ Walked with residents from Orchid Care Home and others at Mouldon Hill in aid of Prospect Hospice

⚠️ Inspected highways and reported roads and footpaths needing repair or repainting

🧽 Reported graffiti to help keep public spaces clean

🌳 Helped a resident plant a memorial tree

🗓️ Took part in the Community Development Committee

☕ Attended a Swindon business breakfast. Encouraged local leaders to stay positive despite rising costs driven by Labour government policie

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📩 Priory Vale Labour councillors remain invisible and do not appear to answer emails. I continue to make myself available, even though I’m not currently a borough councillor. My email vinaymanro@haydonwick.gov.uk is open to all

📣 Reminder Haydon Wick Parish’s Annual Parish Meeting is on Monday 29th April. Come along, hear about our work, and speak with the Police and Crime Commissioner about local policing

✉️ As always, if something needs fixing or you’ve got an idea to improve the parish, get in touch