If you vote me in,
I will campaign to:

SAXMUNDHAM

Above all Saxmundham needs a community centre - to provide a focus for the community. Even most of the local parishes have modern village halls. What have we got? The Market Hall - constantly being patched up, doors closed more than they're open, no parking, no bar, run down...

In recent years, all of our neighbouring towns of Framlingham, Halesworth, Leiston and Wickham Market have all expanded their ameniities eg art centres, theatres, swimming pools, gyms, skateparks, playgrounds etc...

While Sxmundham has been slowly losing what little it had. Apart from Carlton Park and its sports clubs (run by a charity), there is precious little in the way of community and social facilities for the youth of our town, families, the elderly and those with additional needs.

To put a halt to Saxmundham slowly sliding into a backwater dormitory town - a neighbourhood of strangers - we need to breathe life into the town and make it an attractive place where people will enjoy living, working and playing.

Research and consultations with residents living in IP17 show that

the vast majority would welcome a community enterprise centre.

This now could be a possbility from summer 2012

with the Saxmundham Middle School becoming redundant.

This is what theCommunity Enterprise Centre could look like- please click here.

EDUCATION

1) Save and develop our Village Schools.

SOCIAL CARE

2) Improve respite care for Carers.
3) Expand local leisure facilities for those with additional needs.

HEALTH

4) Fight for new and improved local health facilities.

CRIME & DISORDER

5 ) Ensure greater police visibility.

TRANSPORT & ROADS

6 ) Address the problem of uneven pavements and pot-holes.

7 ) Secure an hourly train service, both ways from Saxmundham.

8 ) Investigate more innovative ways of delivering public transport services between local towns and villages, especially for the disadvantaged eg youth, elderly and those with health and disability needs.

LEISURE

9 ) Press for more local family social and leisure facilities.

COMMUNITY

10) Ensure that future building developments meet local needs and secure the supporting infrastructure eg healthcare and social care

11) Establish new community leisure and entertainment services, especially for the disadvantaged eg youth, elderly and those with health and disability needs.

NB. Please remember, I am a ‘doer’, not a talker!

To see the evidence, please click here.

And, please use my "Contact" page, on this website, to bring any other issues and suggestions to my attention.

Kind regards,

Don Tricker

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