Local Council Elections 2022: Who will you vote for this May?

The Labour-led Council’s finances have been a mess for over a decade. Two independent reports laid bare the irresponsible financial decisions taken by Labour councillors. £7 million spent on the Vue cinema. Funding vanity projects, including the failed Hoylake Golf resort to build on Green Belt. Then paying £500,000 to the developer to get out of their contract which Conservative Councillors, local campaigners and residents told them was folly. The latest scheme, creating a local authority run bank, costing Taxpayers £5 million, has now died a death.

Local Conservatives will protect our Green Belt. This is why we proposed the Local Plan at a recent Council Committee meeting which has only brownfield sites listed for development.

These elections will decide what type of Wirral we want. Local Conservatives’ priority is to have a clean, green and pleasant environment for our residents to enjoy. We will use the £100 million given from Government to level up Wirral, creating highly skilled jobs, attracting new businesses so our children don’t have to find employment elsewhere. We will protect local services which all our residents rely upon, such as maintaining our roads and pavements, keeping our streets clean and free from litter, cutting the grass across the Borough and protecting our most vulnerable residents.

Find out more at https://www.wirralconservatives.org.uk/

The Green Party is approaching these elections with confidence and on the back of a strong track record of delivery.

Official Wirral Council data show that Green councillors work harder. Greens reported an average of 283 issues to the council in 2021, the average Labour councillor 54 and the average Conservative 56. Voters can be confident that electing more Greens will result in tangible benefits where they live.

The recent budget voted through by Labour and Conservatives reflected years of Tory imposed austerity and financial mismanagement by Labour. In contrast, Greens have brought forward proposals that not only save money but bring real environmental gains – from reducing the council’s energy consumption, ending the spraying/raking of beaches, promoting and protecting our biodiversity and ending the £1 million annual subsidy for car parking – Green councillors have had a huge impact on the council’s budget and Wirral’s environment.

By voting against school closures in deprived areas, the sell-off of council assets and voting for stronger environmental standards in the regeneration of Birkenhead and a brownfield first policy for new housing, Greens have led the way in building a more progressive, greener future for Wirral and supporting those in our community who are most in need.

Find out more at https://wirral.greenparty.org.uk/

Our priority is the people of Wirral, and providing a safe, well-maintained and inclusive borough.

The Conservative government talks about levelling up, while delivering further austerity and cuts. Labour puts our promises into action.

The regeneration of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Seacombe and New Brighton is exciting.

To be able to develop existing sites into assets our communities can use is a huge step forward.Our commitment to the environment is key, and our Local Plan protects Wirral’s beautiful green spaces, putting new housing only on brownfield sites.

Labour councillors are community councillors who roll their sleeves up and get involved. We ensure that residents’ voices are heard.

This year we have:

• Stopped the closure of public conveniences
• Scrapped parking permit increases 
• Saved school crossing patrols
• Kept the anti-social behaviour prevention budget 
• Thrown a lifeline to Woodchurch Leisure Centre, giving it £330k from the fund set aside to demolish it
• Ensured that the community asset transfer fund keeps wealth in our communities, not selling them off to the highest bidder
• Supported at-risk libraries to put cases together for community asset transfer
• Guaranteed not to build on golf courses 
• Put £113k into a ring-fenced pot to help our most vulnerable residents as energy prices soar – by turning down the heating in council buildings 

Find out more at https://wirrallabour.co.uk/

Wirral has to learn lessons from its mistakes, get our basic services right and build on recent successes.

We need fairer funding from the Government to help us meet the costs of care for our ageing population. Wirral needs more care facilities to help the elderly live independent lives safely.

Even though governments have been pushing our schools to become academies we retain a duty to our young people and their parents, to secure effective services covering special needs

It is very clear that Covid has had considerable impact on the progress and health of many young people. We will help develop initiatives to overcome this.

 We have to deal with a legacy of ageing council offices and leisure facilities. The new building in Birkenhead will help tackle energy bills and help turn the town centre round..

We need a similar plan to replace ageing leisure centres with modern, energy efficient buildings.

 The new local plan gives us a fighting chance to deal with dereliction and to turn Wirral round.  Rising food prices underline the need to protect our land.  We will take a tough line with those developers who still hope to build on our countryside and farmland.

Find out more at https://wirrallibdems.org.uk/en/