Six key priorities for our City in 2010 and beyond
An update to the Liberal Democrats policy priorities for Birmingham by Cllr Paul Tilsley
In the first few months of 2010 the Liberal Democrats conducted a massive public consultation exercise to identify the views of Birmingham people on the key issues which need to be fixed by your Council. We made those key issues our priorities for Birmingham at the city council elections in May 2010 and we have now built on them further and added more detail.
The six to fix Liberal Democrat priorities going forward from October 2010 are as follows:
Make Birmingham safer
Work with the police to further reduce crime & develop community policing
Put more officers on the streets - reduce police paperwork
Simplify the contact numbers for community policing teams
More special constables - by giving them a 50% cut in Council Tax bills
Quality Education for all
Improve on Birmingham's already above national average exam results
Provide additional primary school places to meet rising pupil numbers
Provide Increase literacy & numeracy skills for all
Provide additional social homes
Build 500 new Council homes in 2011/12
Renovate 500 run down family homes bringing them back into use
Compulsory purchase 500 unfit homes & bring them back into use as family homes
Axe Labour's unfair £18 per week "tenant tax" & use the money to build new homes
Improve Brum's roads & pavements by 2015
Upgrade all pavements to national standards
Upgrade all roads to national standards
Replace or upgrade street lighting creating brighter & safer streets
A Cleaner City
Rapidly clear all fly tipping & graffiti
Meet the city's ambitious recycling rates
Crack down on "litter louts" & graffiti vandals
A Greener City
Provide 10,000 homes with solar panels - reducing home energy bills
Fit solar panels to Council owned buildings generating £1 million to support council services
Maintain a continued commitment to reducing CO2 emissions
Encourage people to use public transport & retain the pensioners bus pass
Your continuing support for the Liberal Democrats in our area will help up to achieve these policy objectives for you and your family.
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