This week's Chronicle and today's Evening Post both feature our campaign to get the Council and Police to tackle mini-motos.
We've achieved step one which was to get this worrying issue on everyone's agenda , but what local residents want to see now is actions not words.
My contituent Kay Nash has been leading the campaign against anti-social behaviour on Bede Walk and around Hexham estate. Without Kay and other residents like her dotted around the ward, it would have been impossible for us to make the progress we have made in making Redlands clean, green and most importantly, safe. Kay's done a fantastic job and is a credit to her community.
Kay has joined the North Whitley Neighbourhood Action Group and she is busy encouraging her neighbours to stand up for their area and take back their community. Kirsten, Glenn, and I are doing all we can to support her in this.
If the Lib Dems ran Reading Borough Council we would devolve more power to local communities and empower them to take decisions and have greater influence over issues that affect them. Residents have told me they feel powerless and ignored by RBC over issues such as crime and anti-social behaviour. We think that area committees or something like them made up of local residents and ward councillors would work better than decisions handed down by Council officers from the Civic Centre.
This is starting to happen in a limited way on the Police NAGs but we need to go further to put power back in the hands of local people.
Anyway, you can read the Post article about Kay's campaign here.
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