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Securing investment in our green spaces

Your local Conservatives are calling for the Council to invest properly in our parks. There are too few litter wardens, while dog wardens are scarcely seen, despite rising volumes of dog mess in our parks. Cllr Craig Aston says The Councils administration are unable to provide any real details on what they have done for our parks. By contrast, your local Conservatives have strongly supported the Save King Edward Memorial Park campaign.

We have achieved so much togetherjust think what we can do over the coming years
Your local Conservative Action Team has been working hard for the last four years to make sure that Tower Hamlets Council takes notice of the issues that matter in Limehouse.
From Horseferry Road to the St Vincents and Barleymow Estates, Cllr Craig Aston and his team have been busy across our local area. Our Action Teams weekly surgeries have been very popular with local residents. They have helped local people on issues as diverse as housing, crime and anti-social behaviour, funding for local community groups, school places and rubbish collections. Local Conservative councillor for Limehouse ward Craig Aston says In Limehouse, we have a very strong community spirit and with major new housing developments planned locally, it is important that Tower Hamlets Council invests properly in local services and infrastructure. We must ensure that schools, doctors surgeries and public transport can keep pace with the extra demands placed upon them. We must not allow our area to become over-developed. With your help we can achieve much more over the next four years.

Its time to improve our local roads

Cllr Craig Aston and the local Conservative action teamfighting for Limehouse all year round

Cllr Craig Aston with a pothole on Westferry Road. Thanks to Cllr Aston, this pothole is now fixed.
Your local Conservative Action team has been working hard to get action on the often appalling state of our local roads. Your local Action Team frequently reports potholes to the Council, and ensures that the damage is swiftly repaired. However, the Council, is not taking the problem seriously. At the last Council Budget Meeting we found 120,000 which could have been used for a full audit and repair of every road in the Borough. Instead, Mayor Rahman and Labour joined forces to spend the money on a chauffeur-driven car for the Mayor and yet more Town Hall advisors. Conservative councillor for Limehouse Cllr Craig Aston says It's about time Tower Hamlets spent money where it was neededfixing potholes on our roads, rather than on more cronies at the Town Hall.

GOVERNMENT INVESTS 77 MILLION IN BOROUGHS HOUSING

The Conservative-led Government has pledged 77 million of funding over the next two years to improve housing in Tower Hamlets. 25 million of Decent Homes funding has been pledged for 2013/14. This figure will rise to 46 million in 2014/15. This money will go to renovate kitchens and bathrooms in council housing, and fund new heating systems where most needed. Local Conservative Councillor Craig Aston, Aston said This is the boost for housing Tower Hamlets really needs. It will help us build new homes and improve existing homes. The last Labour Government left office in 2010 with 55% of social housing in our borough not up to Decent Homes standard. That is a disgraceful record. The Respect-backed Mayor presides over a housing waiting list of 24,000 and has taken decisions to cut the average spend on repairs to council housing, damaging the quality of work carried out. Only the Conservative-led Government is securing the investment in our housing stock our Borough needs. I congratulate Ministers on identifying local residents priorities and putting Government cash where it counts.

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ways your local Conservatives are working for you

Working for Limehouse

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After Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman sold Limehouse Library off for a song to a restaurant chain, Cllr Craig Aston is monitoring the situation to make sure this much-loved resource is kept for the community. Cllr Craig Aston reported a faulty lamppost in Island Row where the wiring was exposed. As a result he got Tower Hamlets Council to fix it.

Your local Councillor works hard to keep our area tidy by reporting rubbish in the area. Here on Narrow Street (pictured), Cllr Aston routinely reports rubbish left in the street. He says I work hard to make sure our area is clean and tidy as the council shows so little interest in Limehouse.

Cllr Craig Aston on Narrow Street

Fighting over-development
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Figures uncovered by local Conservatives show nearly 12,000 new housing units could be built in our area by 2020 under plans voted through by Labour and Independent councillors. Your local Conservatives oppose this level of development without new infrastructure. Cllr Craig Aston worked to get the size of a proposed new development at Basin Approach reduced, securing the views of the Victorian accumulator tower there.

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Cllr Craig Aston in Ropemakers Fields.

Your local Conservatives oppose Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahmans plans to commercialise local parks such as Ropemakers Fields (pictured above). Cllr Aston says Using our parks as a cash cow will mean a repeat of the problems with anti-social behaviour at Victoria Park.

Fighting crime and antisocial behaviour

Cllr Craig Aston has worked with the police Safer Neighbourhood Team over street drinking and antisocial behaviour issues around Gill Street.

Standing up for our parks and green spaces

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Cllr Craig Aston opposes Thames Waters plans to build a ventilation shaft for the super sewer in King Edward Memorial Park and has registered objections. This would put part of the park out of action for four years.

Cllr Craig Aston on Gill Street

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Your local Conservative councillor Craig Aston has been working with the local Safer Neighbourhood Team to tackle anti-social behaviour in Ropemakers Fields. Fields Cllr Aston says I am fighting to get CCTV installed here. Cllr Craig Aston has worked with British Waterways to get foul-smelling algae cleaned up in Limehouse Basin, Basin following complaints from local residents living round the Basin.

Cllr Craig Aston with local residents in King Edward Memorial Park

Cllr Craig Aston at Limehouse Basin

Working for Limehouse all year round

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Following residents complaints, Cllr Craig Aston got Tower Hamlets Homes to fix a broken front entry door at Bethlehem House on the St Vincents Estate. Estate

Fighting cynical cuts to our street cleaning budget

East End Lifecosting you 3 million a year

Opposing wasteful spending on council propaganda

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Figures unveiled by local Conservatives shows Tower Hamlets Council spends 3.2 million on publicity like East End Life1 million more than any other London borough. Cllr Craig Aston says Only the Conservatives are fighting to end this abuse of taxpayers money. Cllr Craig Aston reported potholes on Westferry Road and got them filled in. He says The state of our roads is unacceptable. I am fighting for urgently needed repairs. Cllr Craig Aston has been working with Tower Hamlets Homes and the police to sort out anti-social behaviour on the Barleymow Estate. Estate
Cllr Craig Aston with rubbish dumped on Commercial Road. Bulk waste charges have led to fly tipping.

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Your local Conservative councillors have fiercely opposed Respect-backed Mayor Lutfur Rahman's charges for bulk waste collection, which has led to fly-tipping, and have called for better street cleaning and an end to bulk waste charges. Local residents highlighted mattresses dumped outside Trinidad House on the St Vincents Estate. Estate Cllr Craig Aston got the council to clear these away immediately.

Cleaning up our riverside and waterways

Cllr Craig 14 Aston has pressed the Port of London Authority and Thames21 to clean up Lime Kiln Dock. As a result, a clean up event was held in October.

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Cllr Craig Aston at Lime Kiln Dock before the clean up

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Your local Conservatives exposed the scandal of taxpayers money being spent on cronies for Tower Hamlets Respect-backed Mayor Lutfur Rahman. Mark Seddon, a former editor of left-wing newspaper Tribune was paid 51,500 in 2012/13 while Tony Winterbottom was paid 1,000 a day. Cllr Craig Aston says Rahman doubled the budget for his advisors in 2013. This means an extra 300,000 per year on more advisors like Mark Seddon. This is an unacceptable waste of taxpayers money,

Cllr Craig Aston has been working with Tower Hamlets Homes to get rid of pigeon mess in Padstow House on the St Vincents Estate. Methods used to deter the pigeons here include netting.

Cllr Craig Aston with pigeon mess at Padstow House

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Local Conservatives exposed the scandal of Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman and his cronies taking taxis and charging you the bill. In only 24 months Rahmans cronies charged you 8,000 for taxi fares, while Rahman charges 50,000 a year for a chauffeur and car, Cllr Craig Aston says Only a Conservative administration will stop this abuse of taxpayers money.

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YOUR LOCAL CONSERVATIVE COUNCILLOR WORKING ALL YEAR ROUND

Tower Hamlets Council plans over 40,000 new housing units in our area. Labour and Independent councillors routinely vote through more insensitive skyscraper developments.

FIGHTING AGAINST OVERDEVELOPMENT

Tower Hamlets Council is planning to build a whopping 43,170 new properties in Tower Hamlets by 2025, according to its latest Core Strategy document. The Council simply cannot allow development at this break-neck speed without investing in schools, doctors surgeries and public transport infrastructure says local Conservative councillor Craig Aston But Tower Hamlets Council is simply not doing enough. It is not driving a hard enough bargain with developers who are charging ever higher prices for flats, but delivering little in the way of benefits to the existing community. To make matters worse, Mayor Lutfur Rahman is squandering money available for investment on vanity projects. He wastes 3.2 million a year on communications, including his own newspaper, while squandering 500,000 a year on mayoral advisors, who replicate jobs done elsewhere in the Council. With the Council paying so little attention to future community needs, even its own optimistic forecasters are forced to admit that over the next decade there will be 14,000 more children living in the Borough. Based on current investment plans, school places will be nearly 20% over-subscribed in ten years time. Already, the Council is spending 1 million a year bussing young children across our Borough, to whichever school happens to have a free place. How high will these costs rise as the council falls increasingly behind on new school places? Councillor Aston adds The pressure on local services as a result of more and more new developments is stretching them to breaking point. We urgently need new infrastructure before any more development. Councillor Aston and his team are determined that the Council will not overdevelop our area. Weve had some big successes, says Craig, A number of applications have been rejected and plans to build a skyscraper at Basin Approach ended in the height being reduced due to my action. But we must be wary of Labour plans to build more tower blocks over our area.

Your Limehouse Conservative Councillor Craig Aston

Conservative Councillor for Limehouse ward Cllr Craig Aston says As your local Conservative

Councillor, I keep in touch all year round. If you have any issues or problems that I can help you with, why not contact me in the following ways:
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PROTECTING OUR PARKS AND HERITAGE

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Your local Conservatives have announced their plan for our parks, which puts local residents first. While the Council seeks to cash in with commercial events in local parks we

believe that parks and open spaces always be available to local people and sports groups. Park users should not have to constantly watch out for rubbish and broken glass from beer festivals and concerts.