Election results for Binfield with Warfield
Borough Council Elections 2011 – Thursday, 5th May, 2011
Thank you to the many of you who voted for me on 5th May and the many friends that I gained and renewed during the campaign. We gave the established Councillors a good run for their money achieving 1,059 votes, but unfortunately this was 400 short of the line. See full results at http://democratic.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?ID=165&RPID=3760718
Congratulations to the 3 Councillors elected and I trust that they will actively pursue the pledges made during the election.
The issues I fought on have not gone away and this web site will be maintained giving regular updates on the key topics:
- Bracknell regeneration was launched in a great fanfare of publicity 10 years ago. Nothing has happened other than the slow degeneration of the town and a once lively shopping centre has been left with a dying market and endless rows of Charity shops.
- Blue Mountain Golf Course, which creates the green divide between Bracknell and the village of Binfield, is planned to be replaced with 400 executive homes, another Secondary school and a football stadium.
- The Borough Council is planning to build 7,975 houses within a 4.5 miles radius of Binfield. This would increase the present population of some 7,500 to around 28,000 and is no longer considered necessary.
- Where are the infrastructure proposals to support this new town? In Binfield at the moment there is only one overcrowded Primary School and an undersized and even more overcrowded doctors surgery. The roads exceeded capacity years ago and public transport is almost non-existent.
- 40 of the present 42 Bracknell Councillors are Conservative, the remaining 2 are Labour. 6 of the 11 elected but unopposed Binfield Parish Councillors are Conservative and 3 are declared as Independent but nominated by the leader of the local Conservatives. Even if you are Conservative this total lack of an alternative viewpoint is disconcerting. Who will voice your concerns?
- Binfield Village Protection Society has fought for years to designate Wicks Green/ Monks Alley as a Conservation Area for the benefit of future generations. Binfield Parish Council have voted against this.
It is the present Council that has made the present policies and they all vote the same way even if individuals do not agree. Let us see if they keep the many promises made during the 2011 campaign.
We were only 400 votes short. Watch this space, I will be back.
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