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GET MK BACK ON
TRACK
Our plan for Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes Borough Council Elections
6th May 2021
Promoted by George Bowyer on behalf of MK Conservatives, both of 111 Queensway, Bletchley, MK2 2DN.
Milton Keynes Conservatives
A personal message from
Cllr Alex Walker
Leader of Milton Keynes Conservatives
Cllr Alex Walker
2 GET MK BACK ON TRACK
Milton Keynes Conservatives
GETTING MK BACK
ON TRACK
Our plan to get Milton Keynes Back on Track means supporting local businesses,
saving our high streets, keeping our streets safe, fixing our roads, protecting our
green spaces, reducing fly-tipping, helping families, supporting our hospital and
investing in expanding mental health services.
Protect & Promote MK’s economy
1 SAVING OUR HIGH STREETS
Our high streets have struggled 3 FREE PARKING AT CMK
Over 1,000 people have signed 5 PARTNERING WITH CITIES
AROUND THE WORLD
during the pandemic, so we’re pledging our petition for free parking at CMK. We We will create partnership schemes
a High Street Support Fund to ensure want to stimulate the local economy, with cities around the world. Our plans
they bounce back and our small busi- support retail jobs and save shoppers will set out a desire for more trade, in-
nesses are protected. money. vestment and cultural exchange.
2 ECONOMIC RECOVERY
The Labour Council have kept
4 GLOBAL MK
We want to attract exciting new
6 MAKING THE BLETCHLEY
TOWNS FUND A SUCCESS
money from struggling businesses, as jobs and industries to MK, which is why Building on our success at achieving
part of our new economy recovery plan, we will launch a “Global MK” project £23m of investment for Bletchley, we
in partnership with local business lead- aimed at securing inward investment now need to ensure that the money is
ers, we will get government money to and seizing the opportunities provided used to make a difference to residents’
hard-hit businesses quicker. by Brexit. lives and support our local economy.
Tackling Litter & Fly-Tipping
1 SCRAP LABOUR’S BOOKING
ONLY SYSTEM AT THE TIPS 3 INVEST IN MORE BINS
We will invest in more bins across
Fly-tipping has increased since the MK to help reduce littering and
introduction of the booking system and stop our green spaces being used
it raises barriers to waste disposal for instead.
residents - we will scrap it as part of
our war against fly-tippers.
2 SCRAP LABOUR’S CHARGES ON
DIY WASTE 4 INVEST IN CCTV TO TARGET
HOTSPOTS
New charges introduced at the It’s vital that known fly-tipping
tips means residents have to pay to hotspots are targeted by mobile-CCTV.
dispose of certain waste, such as soil We will ensure each ward has mobile-
and hardcore. We will scrap these CCTV to use against fly-tipping and
charges. other offences
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Health
1 KEEPING OUR WORLD
LEADING VACCINATION 3 SUPPORT OUR HOSPITAL
We will build on the investment 5 TACKLE HEALTH
INEQUALITIES
ROLLOUT MOVING we secured for a new children’s and We will tackle MK’s health
We will do everything we can to maternity hospital by further inequalities by levelling up MK, raising
support our local COVID-19 supporting MK Hospital to minimise living standards and working with
vaccination programme to reduce waiting times and expand services health partners to make sure everyone
infection rates and save lives. needed due to the pandemic. has equal access and treatment.
INVEST IN EXPANDING TACKLING THE BACKLOG OF
2 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
We will expand mental health
4 SUPPORT OUR SOCIAL CARE
WORKERS 6 OTHER HEALTH ISSUES
We need to ensure that the backlog
We will ensure that support is there for
provisions for children and young of patients awaiting non-Covid
our social care workers by investing in
people. The pandemic has been treatment is tackled.
focused mental health support for care
especially hard on them and they need
workers affected by the pandemic.
our support.
Environment, Waste & Planning
1 BUILD A COMMUNITY FOREST
We will develop a community 3 INVEST IN FLOOD
PREVENTION 5 SAVE YOUR WEEKLY BIN
COLLECTIONS
forest in MK to increase our We pledge to increase flood We promise to save your weekly
green spaces, enhance our communi- prevention measures and upgrade bin collections and ensure residents
ties and encourage biodiversity. flood-prone infrastructure. can dispose of their waste easily and
weekly. Labour will take that away.
2 PROTECT OUR GREEN
SPACES 4 CARBON NEUTRAL BY 2030
As part of our drive to make MK 6 TURN MK’S FAILING
PLANNING SYSTEM AROUND
We will defend and enhance our carbon neutral by 2030, we will We have a failed planning system
well-used and well-loved green deliver more electric vehicle charging which needs radical changes. That
spaces at every opportunity. And points and transform MK Council’s starts with a promise to end the
continue the fight against Labour vehicle fleet to EV’s only by 2030. Dorfman Report and commission an
reckless growth ambitions such as external audit to restore trust with
MK East, and South East MK . Blakelands residents and MK
residents more widely.
Families
1 FUND 6 NEW YOUTH CENTRES
We pledge to fund 6 new youth 3 OPEN OUR LIBRARIES
We will ensure that MK’s
centres to provide more libraries are opened ASAP. We
opportunities for young people, know that they provide a valuable
improve their mental health and deter service to families and residents
them from crime. across MK.
2 SAVE CULTURAL VENUES
We promise that we will save
4 SUPPORT OUR CHILDREN
As part of our pledge to support
cultural venues in MK providing them families, we will invest in play parks
with the support they need to open across MK and continue to
their doors for families in MK to enjoy. unconditionally support free school
meals.
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Transport & Roads
1 QUADRUPLE THE POTHOLE
REPAIR BUDGET AND FIX 3 PROTECT OUR BUS SERVICES
We will ensure that there are no 5 FIX OUR REDWAYS
In addition to fixing more road
7000 MORE POTHOLES. more cuts to bus services until potholes, we will also invest in
We will quadruple the pothole repair DRT’s first project has been properly making our redways are safer to
budget to fix 7,000 more potholes reviewed. If it doesn’t work, we have travel on by ensuring they are
and fix them faster. to get back to buses. well-maintained and hazard-free.
2 RESURFACE, REPAIR AND
REPAINT OUR ROADS 4 PROTECT OUR GRID ROADS
MK’s grid roads are synonymous
We will make funding available with our city and provide great
for resurfacing badly repaired roads, transport routes throughout MK. We
replacing/repairing signs and promise to protect them, that
repainting white and yellow lines on includes our underpasses.
our roads.
Crime
1 INVEST IN CCTV FOR EVERY
WARD 3 TACKLE KNIFE CRIME
We understand that knife crime is 5 COMBAT UNAUTHORISED
ENCAMPMENTS
We will invest in mobile-CCTV a serious problem. We will work We will support our officers and
units for every ward in MK to tackle with TVP to get more officers on the work with them to ensure they are
anti-social behaviour, fly-tipping and street, invest in additional CCTV and using the new legislation designed to
other offenses. With these units, we improve street lighting across MK to make it easier to move along and
can efficiently target hotspots. boost security and reduce crime. deter unauthorised encampments.
SUPPORT ‘PROJECT VIGILANT’ CREATE A PET THEFT A LIGHTER MK, FOR A SAFER
2 TO PROTECT WOMEN AND
IMPROVE SECURITY
4 TASKFORCE
We will establish a taskforce
6 MK
We will ensure that broken street
We will support the roll-out of ‘Project aimed at raising awareness and lighting is fixed quicker so that streets
Vigilant’ to ensure women in MK feel seeking out ways to reduce the rising and underpasses are kept alight and
safer and better protected. trend in pet theft seen locally and residents feel safer.
nationally.
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