Councillor Funded Improvements in Victoria Ward

It was Labour Councillor Eddie Collett, Deputy Leader of the Council and a resident of Victoria Ward, who persuaded his Labour Colleagues of the common sense of allowing each of the town's 42 councillors to have an annual budget of £10,000 appropriated from the Council Tax.   As part of the same idea, Area Forums your Labour Council has set up throughout the town, were to have £7,500 each year for each ward they constituted.

The £20,000 which Fred Jackson and I have had for the last four years have been spent in much-appreciated projects throughout Victoria Ward.  

These have involved:

1.    Towards the cost of fencing off Central Drive/Revoe Park Bowling Greens : £  5,000

2.    Environmental improvements to the pocket park at Spen Corner,
       Ansdell Road/Waterloo Road and including removing dead trees, planting 23 new ones,
       planting of bluebells, supplying benches, waste bin, information sign and one metre high
       fencing:                                                                                                        £16,312

3.    Installing Alley Gates at Levens Road:                                                          £   3,802

4.    Buying and Planting 10 trees on the highway verge of Marton Drive:              £   4,000

5.    Installing Alley Gates to the rear of Threlfall Road/Nuttall Road:                     £   4,384

6.    Purchasing books to assist the adult literacy programe in Palatine Library:      £   2,000


David Owen