✔ Listen to you
Your Council Tax should be spent on YOUR priorities. With government funding to help freeze council tax we want to spend your money on services you have told us you need!
✔ Clean-up our streets
We will improve street cleansing, refuse collection and recycling services. Many of you have told us that you want better refuse and recycling services, as well as cleaner streets.
✔ Stop the Tory waste
Last year alone Conservatices wasted £3/4 million of your council tax money on aborted projects such as the Bedford Road redevelopment.
✔ Provide more affordable homes
We will use Council Housing Reserves to provide affordable homes for local people and help mroe of the 4,000 families on Guildford's housing waiting list. With careful planning to protect our green belt and prevent over crowding.
✔ Protect Services for older people
We will maintain Borough Council servies which benefit older people and reinstate a town centre meeting place for older people and the wider community.
Lets make Guildford a Borough to be proud of!
The Guildford Liberal Democrats represent you on the Guildford Borough Council, Waverley Borough Council and Surrey County Council. We work for you to improve services and solve problems in your area.
We want to hear your views, should you have any problems at all don't hesistate to contact us and we will do everything we can to help!
I request a recorded vote on the administration's budget for 2012/13.
I will be voting against the administration's Budget, because an almost 3% increase in Council Tax is excessive. It is time for all County Councillors to stand up and be counted and to vote against the Budget.
While there is no escaping that to protect services over the coming years there has to be an increase in Council Tax. The administration's plans are in excess of what is required to balance the books and are an unnecessary burden on Surrey's council tax payers in the recession.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are calling for action not words in repairing Surrey's roads.
Cllr Stephen Cooksey, the Liberal Democrat Transportation Spokesperson has tabled a written question to today's meeting of the County Council regarding failings in the new highways maintenance contract.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are calling for county councillors from all parties to support them in voting against the excessive 2.99% Council Tax rise being proposed by the Conservative Leader and Cabinet to the County Council budget setting meeting on Tuesday.
Cllr Hazel Watson, the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Surrey County Council, says:
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are calling for the Conservative administration to show restraint in increasing Council Tax in the 2012/13 Budget.
Cllr Hazel Watson, the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Surrey County Council, says:
"The legacy of years of the Conservative administration at Surrey County Council, by their own admission, failing Surrey's residents means that they now have almost no choice but to increase Council Tax.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are calling for the Conservative administration to abandon their plans to replace professional staff in 10 of the County's libraries with volunteers, rather than continue with a costly legal fight against Surrey residents in the High Court.
Following the High Court order on Friday by Hon. Mr Justice Wyn Williams, that the County Council should 'take no irrevocable steps towards implementing the Community Partnered Libraries (CPLs) decision impugned in these proceedings until further order of this court', Cllr Hazel Watson, the Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Surrey County Council, said:
Following the announcement by the Conservative Leader of Surrey County Council that he is proposing a 2.99% rise in Council Tax, Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are demanding to know why councillors have been denied papers to properly scrutinise the proposals by the Conservative administration for the County's 2012/13 Budget.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are asking "Where is Conservative-run Surrey County Council's Budget?"
Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition Cllr Hazel Watson says: "With only three weeks to go until Surrey County Council's 2012/13 Budget setting meeting on 7 February, the Conservative administration has not yet even published a draft budget for consultation.
The Government introduced the Feed-in-tariffs (FiT) to encourage early take up of renewable technology in April 2010. Surrey County Council finally approved a scheme to install solar panels on 25 buildings in July 2011. Yet when the Government announced a cut to the FiT rate, they still had not installed a single solar panel.
