Improve local public transport, including putting city money into local bus services
Improve basic services - including pavement repairs, street cleaning, street lighting,
rubbish collection, recycling
Improve basic public facilities, such as public lavatories and parks
Improve the safety of local roads, especially for pedestrians and cyclists
Improve local democracy by opening up the Council, including speaking rights for
objectors to planning applications, public question times, wider consultation and
decentralisation of decision-making
Improve the local housing situation, for example by using planning agreements to
get houses back into family use when colleges build new hostels and encouraging
the conversion of unused offices into flats
Improve local education by co-operating with local schools - and restoring help for
education such as the Children’s Arts Festival
Improve the local environment by tackling heavy lorries and excessive traffic
Improve the lives of those hit by Labour’s cuts in services - including the elderly
and the victims of noise nuisance
Improve the attractiveness of the city to high value investment - including restoring
cuts in the arts budget and fighting to restore the Arts Theatre and Cinema
What we will reject of Labour’s legacy
Money wasted on council spin doctors
Massive cuts in environmental improvements and traffic schemes
Favouritism - restricting council spending outside "their" areas
A closed council - secretive "working parties", less discussion in open committee,
reduced petitioners’ speaking rights
A hostile and negative attitude to neighbouring councils
The destruction of the arts in Cambridge - from the enormous cuts in funding for
local groups to the threatened closure of the Arts Theatre
A hostile and negative attitude to high technology industry and to higher education
Spending on prestige projects while basic services suffer
Cuts in grants to voluntary organisations and the creeping municipalisation of
services
Panic sales of council assets to pay for overblown projects
