Correspondence to: Ruth Elliott, 122 Hall Bower Lane, Huddersfield, HD4 6RN
Email: ruth.elliott2@ntlworld.com
Newsome Ward Elections 2007
Newsome Re-elects Julie Again
JULIE STEWART-TURNER
In the May 2007 Kirklees Elections Julie Stewart-Turner was elected for a third time as Green Party Councillor for Newsome, returning with a healthy 1000+ majority over Labour.
Julie first stood for the Green Party in 2002 when she took
over from Nick Harvey and was re-elected in 2004.
Julie is a full-time Councillor and an active worker in the local community. She has taken up literally thousands of local issues since first being elected nearly 5 years ago.
The Green Party has now won every election in the Newsome ward since 1996.
Changes
to Local Councillors 2006 - Goodbye Sharon Welcome Back Graham
In March
2006 Cllr. Sharon Fallows retired as Green Party Councillor for Newsome,
during her time she helped improve recycling facilities across Kirklees
Waste sites including those for batteries and bicycles. In addition to
representing the Green Party on Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing Board,
Sharon championed the removal of overhead power lines from Castle Hill
to resiting underground, facilitating safe kite flying to resume.
Replacing
Sharon as the nominated representative for Newsome, former Green Councillor
Graham Simpson was returned to Newsome in the May 2006 local elections.
Graham was an instrumental Newsome Party Councillor between 1998 and 2004
and his return was welcomed by Party Membership and Local residents alike.
In his first year back his has already pursued hundreds of issues raised
by the Newsome residents.
He was instrumental
in securing traffic calming for Newsome Road and Newsome Road South and
helped obtain over £700,000 extra funding to be spent in our area
through Neighbourhood Renewal.
Graham, with
the rest of the Green Party team, will ensure that our local greenspaces
are preserved and that derelict land at Hart Street in the centre of Newsome
village is brought back into use.
Graham Simpson
lives in Taylor Hill with his wife and son and works for an independent
organisation promoting the rights of tenants in social housing.
Graham's
contact details are:
4 Pond Close
Taylor Hill
Huddersfield
HD4 7RE
Mobile: 07976 555830
Land Line: 01484 308789
Email: graham.simpson@kirklees.gov.uk
Green Party Councillors and
Members once again assisted Community groups including 'Newsome Action'
and the Sea Cadets in a number of clean ups during 2006 including Mount
Pleasant and Armitage Bridge.
This
followed 2005's successful clean ups, when the community were awarded
£12,925.00 from the Living Spaces fund to pay for a clean up at
the woodland glade at the top of Fanny Moor Estate where 40 tonnes of
rubbish was removed.
Kirklees
Greens believe everyone has the right to a clean and healthy environment
and are keen to pursue the prosecution of flytippers on your behalf. Please
let us know if you see anyone flytipping in the Newsome Ward.
Manor
Street Porches:Following
a long tenant and Green Councillor led campaign porches have now been
installed on the front doors of properties on Manor Street. Prior to this
doors opened directly into front rooms making homes difficult and expensive
to keep warm. The new porches form a draught lobby and useful additional
space for the home owners.
Land at
Taylor Hill Road: Gardens and garages to the rear of Taylor Hill Road
were saved from housing development following the determined campaign
of local people supported by Green Party Councillors. This Kirklees owned
land rented out as gardens and garages for many years could have been
approved for development to the scandalous detriment of the community.
You
know where your going with the Greens
Public footpath signs must
be put up by law, but for years Kirklees wasted thousands of pounds of
tax-payers' money erecting signs that didn't say where the paths went
to or the distance. Imagine the outcry if road signs where put up saying
'Road' with a direction arrow but not saying where the road led or the
distance. Green Councillors insisted that the new public footpaths signs
show where the paths go to and how far it is to get there.
Join the
Green Party team in making Newsome a better place to live.
The Newsome
Ward gets ever stronger, more inclusive and better represented thanks
to your support for the Green party team here, we hope that you will
join us in our ambition to make things greater still. Through energetic
activities like community clean ups to leaflet delivery, or simply displaying
posters at election time you can help get the Green message to thousands
of people.
If you can
offer assistance or would like a poster board for your garden please call:
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