Our Pledges
Team Work:
We seek election as a team of independents, believing that we are far more effective working together, than individually. Our team has a wide variety of skills and backgrounds, four of us are City residents (three live in the Ward) and all us either work or have worked in the City.
As Common Councillors, we will continue our work for you our residents and businesses to help make the Ward and the City a better place to live, visit and conduct business.
We will do all that we can through our Committee work to help ensure that the City of London remains a world leading Financial and Professional Services centre.
Our Key Values:
- Commitment to public service and the importance of supporting businesses and residents in the Castle Baynard Ward and the wider City of London community.
- A passion for the City and the desire to help make the Square Mile a better place to work, live and to enjoy.
- A focus on delivery: we just don’t raise issues – we work on fixing them.
If Elected We Will:
- Prioritise the regeneration of the Fleet Street Area we will work with and support the Fleet Street Quarter Business Improvement District (FSQ BID) team to deliver our joint ambitious projects including public realm enhancements, climate resilience initiatives and destination marketing campaigns.
- Support City business and the residents ensuring that Corporation policies and their implementation help our constituents, notably small businesses continue to recover following the pandemic lockdowns.
- Ensure Safer Streets by ensuring that City officers design street and alleyway changes to promote safety for women and girls, prioritise pedestrians and responsible cyclists and implement measures to calm traffic. Work with the City Police to tackle recent increases in Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) and petty crime.
- Listen to, and represent the interests of everyone in the Ward, both residents and businesses (large and small). We will take up issues that you raise with us and seek practicable solutions and report regularly back to you.
- Monitor the delivery of statutory Local Authority services (such as Street Cleaning, Refuse Collection, Environmental Health etc) provided in the City to help ensure they are fit for purpose.
- Encourage the Corporation to ensure that the City’s continued prosperity benefits all, enables businesses to thrive and meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility.
- Support the City Corporation’s “Climate Action Strategy”, work with the FSQ BID and City officers to implement significant greening of our Ward’s public spaces, and work with officers to reduce the numbers of deliveries through consolidation and encouragement of the use of low pollution transport.
- Ensure that measures to encourage active travel and reduce pollution are proportionate and promote safety, with pedestrians being given the highest priority, followed by responsible cycling and use of public transport, whilst ensuring that essential vehicles necessary for the operation of the City are still able to use the City’s roads.
In meeting these pledges, we will always work in accordance with the highest standards of behaviour as set out in the seven principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.