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Folkestone and Hythe
Labour Party Manifesto for
the 2015 Shepway District
Council Elections
A Manifesto for Change
A better Folkestone, Hythe and
Romney Marsh
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Employment and the local economy
• We will implement free parking for all Council owned car
parks on either Saturdays or Sundays and seek to extend it to
whole weekends to encourage growth and tourism to the
area.
• We will work with local traders to improve the town centres
of our district.
• We will investigate and instigate the utilisation of large areas
of disused land for parking or community use.
• We will support new small
businesses by offering 50%
business rate relief for at least
six months and encouraging all
small businesses to utilise tax
breaks under a Labour
Government for those that sign
up to the living wage.
• We will ensure all charity shops will be given business rate
relief of 100% to assist their activities in these hard times.
• We will seek to keep your Council Tax bills low to pay for the
services you want rather than inflated senior management
and consultant costs, by implementing fully costed and
affordable proposals. A promise broken by the Tories who
implemented a 37% council tax increase in Folkestone for
Folkestone Town Council in 2011/12.
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
• We will ensure that Shepway
District Council will become a
living wage employer for all
employees including
apprentices, some of whom are
currently paid a miserly £2.73
an hour.
• We will initiate a senior management pay review with the
Chief Executive, Directors and Heads of Services and those
earning over £50,000 reduced to reflect the size and
responsibilities of the organisation and we will end the
divisive local pay scales.
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Environment
• We will work with KCC
to mitigate their huge
cuts to streetlights
jeopardising safety,
security and being able
to walk in urban areas late at night without stepping in
dog mess and work to bring in lighting until LED
or solar lights can be introduced.
• We will increase staffing for the Dog Warden service
which has been run down to just one person for the
whole district under this Tory administration.
• We will look to
introduce new large
communal refuse
and recycling bins
on a street by street
basis with twice
weekly refuse
collections and will
investigate the reintroduction of proper weekly refuse
collections in streets where households have to keep
several rubbish bags for up to two weeks at a time or
having two bins is impractical. A pledge the Tories made
in 2011 and broke!
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
• We will implement the Clean Neighbourhoods and
Environment Act 2005 and in particular “Permission to
distribute leaflets (England and Wales)” to control the
mass delivery of unwanted junk mail like takeaway
leaflets.
• We will conduct an audit
of all refuse and recycling
bins and offer free
replacement of damaged
bins e.g. where the lids
are absent or recycling
boxes have disappeared, to avoid gulls distributing litter
across the streets, and seek to recycle the old bins. In
addition we will look at implementing best practice
ideas from elsewhere where they have been shown to
work e.g. gull proof plastic bags.
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Housing
• We will enforce the social housing percentage allocation
for all new developments, unlike the current Tory
administration that regularly break their own targets to
line the pockets of developers.
• We will seek to introduce an Accredited Landlords
Scheme, protecting tenants and landlords.
• We will introduce a new
homelessness strategy which
has adequate resources
following cuts to the service
by this Tory administration
• We will enforce planning and
building regulations that cause misery to so many
residents through a lack of investment and enforcement
by the current Tory administration.
Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
Democracy
• We will establish an
elected Youth Council
(11-19 years old) in
partnership with local
youth groups and
schools, with an
appropriate budget to support their work which will be
applicable to young people, who account for 11% of
residents in Shepway. This will seek to repair the
damage of devastating cuts to our youth services by
Tory controlled KCC and be led by young people with
support from Councillors. In addition we will have a
Young People’s Forum to engage with people up to 25
years of age which will identify policy development and
funding opportunities to meet their needs.
• We will establish a Pensioners
Council in partnership with
groups such as the Shepway
Pensioners Forum and Age UK
with an identified and
appropriate budget to oversee
matters which are applicable to retired people
accounting for 21% residents in Shepway.
• We will undertake proper and transparent consultation
with residents and will completely take into account the
results of such exercises.Labour Party Manifesto for the 2015 Shepway District Council elections
A better Folkestone, Hythe and Romney Marsh
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