LIAM BILLINGTON: Conservative Party
OVER the past four years as your councillor, I have worked hard to ensure our communities are good places to live by working on your priorities:
• Keeping our town safe – working with police to tackle anti-social behaviour and burglaries, supporting Home Watch and residents’ associations and getting a Public Space Protection Order for Stalybridge town centre.
• Keeping our town clean – volunteering in local litter picks and arranging the removal of fly-tipping and rubbish.
• Keeping our town green – campaigning against building on the countryside, planting flower beds in our town and supporting residents with planning issues.
• Keeping our town going – supporting small businesses through the pandemic, opposing the Clean Air Zone, getting potholes and pavements fixed, and lampposts repaired.
These are local elections and I am fighting this election on local issues that matter to you.
The Labour candidate that lives in Audenshaw will talk about national issues or repeat the same broken promises we’ve had from the past 44 years of them running the council.
Now is the time for action. Please re-elect me so I can continue to serve and deliver for you.
AMANDA HICKLING: Green Party
I HAVE my own sewing business; teaching and making/altering clothes and host coffee mornings and fundraising events.
My husband and I moved to Stalybridge to start a family and now have two girls.
I am standing as a candidate because I believe Green politics can change our lives for the better.
As a Green councillor, I would work to progress Tameside Council’s recently published Climate Change and Environment Strategy.
The council declared a climate emergency two years ago but there are still no defined actions or targets, despite an already agreed Greater Manchester Environment Plan for 2019-24.
I would campaign for retrofitting home insulation as a starting point to tackling the cost-of-living crisis.
We also champion better transport planning, and safer streets, aiming that every child can walk, cycle or scoot safely to school, and play outside in clean air.
I’m hoping to join our established Green councillor in Ashton and the growing number across Greater Manchester.
NICK AXFORD: Labour Party
ON MAY 5, voters across Tameside will have a choice – a Conservative Party whose actions have led to a cost of living crisis where families are having to choose between heating or food, or to vote for the Labour Party who put people first.
I am asking for your support so that I can be a strong voice for Stalybridge South against the callous indifference of this government.
As your councillor, I will work to bring investment, jobs and opportunities into Stalybridge while supporting the public services that have been cut to the bone by 12 years of Conservative governments.
I have been inspired by the community response across Tameside over the last couple of years, as we have all come together during difficult times.
As costs continue to rise, I am asking to be the voice of the community to send a message to the Tories – enough is enough.