You Are Invited to Meet Ventnor’s Independent Candidates at a hustings for the County Council Elections.

Chris Welsford, former Mayor and the current County Councillor for Ventnor East and Steve Stubbings the current Mayor of Ventnor, who is standing for Election in Ventnor West, look forward to meeting residents and discussing the issues that affect Ventnor.

This will be an opportunity to hear what Independents would do if they have a majority on May 2nd and how Chris and Steve would try to ensure that Ventnor’s particular needs are no longer marginalised at County Hall

Some of the issues on the agenda for discussion will be:

· The Axing of the Coastal Management Team

· The loss of our Public Toilets

· Lifeguards

· Ventnor Haven

· The Padding Pool

· Our Public Buildings

· The Winter Gardens

· The Coastal Centre

· Ventnor Library

· Ventnor Botanic Gardens

· Ventnor Town Council and the Localism Act

· Tidy Town – dog fouling and other nuisances

· Tourism

· Economic Regeneration

· Schools and Children’s Services

· Adult Social Care, Health and Wellbeing

· Transport and Buses

· Highways

· Footpaths

· Refuse and Recycling

· Renewable Energy and

· Self-Sustainability

· Housing

· Policing

· Fire and Rescue

· Public health

April 24th at 7pm in the Baptist Church Pier Street Ventnor

We look forward to seeing you there. Our political opponents are very welcome to attend too as this will be an opportunity for us all to explain our policies should an of us be privileged enough to have a majority in the next council.

To contact us, telephone Chris on 730755 or email [email protected]

or telephone Steve on 855595 or email [email protected]

Image: © Used with permission of Allan Marsh