Bungay Rose - Edition 5 - April 2015

Bungay Rose BOB: I’LL HELP REALISE COMMUNITY CENTRE

Bob Blizzard, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Waveney & Sue Collins, Labour Council Candidate for Bungay Over the last few months  To extend the Maltings scarcely a week has gone Pavilion Sports Centre to by when there has not include a purpose built been a letter in the Beccles Bungay community centre and Bungay Journal about on the same site the Honeypot community centre. It has prompted a  To refurbish/rebuild the great deal of debate, views community centre on its and ideas. To date these original site are some of the most significant proposals put Needless to say there are forward by various groups: strong arguments for and against each of these  To build on the Old proposals, and for us to Grammar School site next move forward the local to the health centre and community needs to be part release the Upper Olland of the decision making Street site for house process. We propose a public building (the favoured meeting to explore the range plan of the Honeypot of options and to weigh up Company Ltd that has the various ideas so that we been negotiated with can identify a practical and local district and county realistic plan that meets the councils.) needs of the town both today and in the future.

ARE LOCAL NHS SERVICES SAFE? At the moment we know that local GP practices are struggling with a severe shortage of GPs whilst still trying to provide a high standard of medical care.

There is also a damaging shortage of nursing staff throughout our area. So we cannot assume that our health centre or services are safe or immune from the affects of these cuts and shortages. On 7th April over 140 NHS senior doctors and healthcare practitioners reported that the current situation in our NHS, ‘is characterised by broken promises, reductions in necessary funding, and destructive legislation, which leaves health services weaker, more fragmented, and less able to perform their vital role than at any time in the NHS’s history'.

Labour, the party that created the NHS, pledges to save and transform it by using a tax on properties worth over £2,000,000 to create an NHS with time to care. This fund will provide 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 more GPs, 5,000 new homecare workers and 3,000 more midwives. Labour have also pledged that nobody will wait longer than a week for vital cancer test results.

VOTE LABOUR TO SAVE THE NHS

NEWS FROM YOUR BUNGAY LABOUR TEAM Vote Labour on Thursday 7th May Printed and promoted by Ben Murray on behalf of all Waveney Labour Party candidates, all at Aspire Centre, Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, NR32 4BF.

SUE BECOMES TOWN CLLR

Congratulations to Sue Collins who has secured a position as one of the new councillors on Bungay’s Town Council as of 11th May 2015.

She says, ‘I’m really looking forward to being part of the new town council: The combination of new councillors with fresh ideas working with sitting councillors who have a wealth of knowledge and experience should be a winning mix. I intend to take a hands on approach to my councillor duties and should I also be elected as a district councillor for Bungay so much could be accomplished on behalf of the people of our town.’

WELL DONE BUNGAY FOOD BANK...BUT WE WISH WE DIDN’T NEED YOU! Like so many of us the Reverend David Wheeler struggles to comprehend why so many ordinary people all over the country including Bungay find themselves, through no fault of their own, in such hardship that they have to seek the support of their local food bank just to put food on the table for themselves and their families.

“I’m appalled that in this rich nation of ours there is such an inequality of wealth distribution that over thirteen million people are living below the official poverty line and that of these over three hundred and thirty thousand are children. We need a bigger communal vision that brings passion back into politics replacing the current obsession with the minutia of accountancy”.

Labour funded manifesto commitments for scrapping the bedroom tax, raising incomes to a minimum of £8 per hour within the first term of government, 25 hours per week free childcare for 3-4 years and outlawing abusive zero hours contracts are just some of the ways to enable people to get back on their feet and make the need for food banks in the UK a thing of the past!

CONVERSATIONS ON YOUR DOORSTEP! A very big ‘thank you’ for all the hundreds of great conversations many of you have had with Bob Blizzard, Sue, Craig and members of the local Labour team.

Over the last 6 months you have shared your ideas, concerns and thoughts and helped us shape constituency policy and prioritise what is important to our community.

If elected these conversations will continue as part of an ongoing relationship with your member of parliament and local councillors so that we can continue to involve local people and genuinely represent your views.

So far we know that there are outstanding safety concerns attached to our new road layout, and that many are concerned about what they see as a lack of any overarching plan to where shops and businesses are located.

Many are worried about the imminent closure of our current post office and what will happen to the building after relocation of services to a newsagent’s shop.

Similarly we have a number of vacant shops and empty buildings in the middle of the town that continue to send negative messages to residents and visitors alike for example the neglected and crumbling Kings Head now owned by an absent property developer. We need a neighbourhood plan that can address these concerns.

BUNGAY ROSE - EDITION 5 Vote Labour on Thursday 7th May