Welcome to our site
I am delighted to welcome you to our new format Association website which has been updated, together with our email address office@bhconservatives.com to include many new features and which is now wholly compatible with all of the systems operated by the Conservative Party nationally and regionally.
It is perhaps appropriate my first task using this new system will be to introduce you to the 18 Beverley & Holderness candidates who will be seeking election to the East Riding of Yorkshire Council in the Local Elections which will be held on 5th May 2011.
I believe we have the strongest team possible which represents all aspects of life for the residents of Beverley & Holderness. Please take the time to read the details which each candidate has supplied to accompany their photographs.
The Conservative Group has held a controlling, overall majority of members on the East Riding of Yorkshire Council for the past four years and during that time has instigated and maintained prudent financial management, investment in technology and forward planning in anticipation of the financial downturn.
The group has also fostered a good, professional approach and relationships between elected councillors and council officers and staff which in turn has enabled us to protect all of the essential services which are so valued by our residents.
We Conservatives are proud of our record, we are proud of working hard for you and that we have:
· Maintained a weekly refuse collection and increased rates of recycling
· Kept open our libraries, leisure centres and museums
· Protected the elderly and the young through our services
· Worked closely with the health services locally
· Continued a programme of affordable housing
· Maintained & continued to invest in the local road network despite some of the worst weather conditions for years
· Responded to the worst floods for decades by working with partners to solve long term problems and provide security for the future
· Worked with the police to make the East Riding of Yorkshire one of the safest places in England in which to live and work
· Worked tirelessly to bring economic gain to the area
· Protected our heritage and the environment
· Frozen Council Tax having already reduced the level to one of the lowest in the country
· Invested in the Voluntary Sector across a wide range of services including trans port for rural areas
Our financial plans for the next four years shows:
· PROTECTION OF SERVICES
· NO WHOLESALE CLOSURES OR MASS REDUNDANCIES AS SEEN ESLEWHERE.
Without the prudent, early financial management and the anticipation of the economic downturn and the effect that it would have on the operation of the East Riding of Yorkshire Council we would not now be in a position to protect the services so valued throughout the area.
PUTTING FINANCES IN THE WRONG HANDS AT THIS TIME COULD LEAD TO DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
WE CARE ABOUT SERVICES
PLEASE VOTE CONSERVATIVE AND SO ENSURE CONTINUITY AND STABILITY
Best Wishes,
Peter Turner
Association Chairman
