Cllr Iain Lindley - Salford City Councillor for Walkden South Ward
There will be a New Prospect Housing walkabout in the Athens Drive area on Thursday 15th May. I’ve not received full details as yet but the walkabouts usually start at 10am on the corner of Athens Drive and Bridgewater Road.
If you are a resident on Athens Drive, Corinth Walk, Oracle Court, Sparta Avenue or Delphi Avenue and would like to raise an issue, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me or come out to talk to officers and Councillors on the walkabout day.
Spent this morning gardening with volunteers from Friends of Walkden Station - hauling 3 huge planters together with ballast and compost up the steps and then adding the plants.
It was hard work but well worth the effort as the end results look excellent.
A huge thank-you to all the FOWS volunteers and particularly to Angela and Neil who were co-ordinating the gardening efforts!
A few comments on the Walkden South election result. I’m delighted that Nicky has joined Les and I on the Council, and that a ward which had never elected a Conservative before 2004 now has a full complement of 3 hard-working Conservative Councillors.
A huge thank-you to all local residents in Walkden South who turned out to support Nicky - and a big pat on the back to all residents who turned out to vote. At 40.3% only one ward (Worsley) had a higher turnout in the entire City of Salford.
CAVANAGH, Tommy (BNP) 336
OGDEN, Pauline (Liberal Democrat) 458
RYAN, Brendan Patrick (Labour) 815
TURNER, Nicky (Conservative) 1649
Turnout 40.3%
Conservative Majority 834
It’s been a fantastic night for the Conservatives in Salford. We have three new Councillors - in Walkden South, Eccles and Cadishead wards - and our vote share is up all across the City.
Labour have lost 6 seats, 3 to us, 2 to the Liberal Democrats and 1 to Community Action - the latter in Irlam where GMPTA Chairman Roger Jones collapsed into third place. They have failed to win a majority of seats contested and they have lost their moral mandate to run Salford City Council.
Even more startling are the vote shares across the City:
Con 17472 (34.00%)
Lab 17899 (34.83%)
LD 10949 (21.31%)
Across the whole of the City of Salford, a Labour heartland Council which has had a Labour majority since it was created, the Labour lead over the opposition Conservatives was a mere 427 votes - 0.83%. It is a disastrous result for Labour. In the wards making up the new Worsley & Eccles South Parliamentary constituency, Conservatives lead Labour by a whopping 12%.
More tomorrow!
The weather is currently quite pleasant, but was a bit patchy earlier with some rain - a big improvement on the forecast which was not good at all.
Voting in Walkden South is steady with the best turnout at James Brindley (polling district JE).
Saw Barry the Anarchist leafleting for LibDem candidate Martin O’Neill on Folly Lane in Swinton while passing through. No sign of any other party here in Walkden or in Eccles where I popped by for an hour earlier in the day.
Having a (very) short break for breakfast after my dawn delivery, so thought I’d post a quick update. I’ll try to make a few short posts today and this evening on my phone but that is dependent on a) having a few moments to myself and b) the technology working properly. I don’t remember Pendlebury Recreation Centre being a mobile blackspot but you never know…
Some more well-deserved publicity for St George’s RC High School this week - see the Advertiser report and Channel M. What I don’t understand is why the Labour Councillors were so reticent to meet with Justice4Georges. I understand that Council employees need to be careful during an election period, but the Council Cabinet have no such restrictions.
It is a real shame that neither Cllr Merry nor Cllr Warmisham have at any point during the BSF process had the courage to stand up and talk to parents, staff and pupils at St George’s. They will not visit the school, they ducked every single consultation event and now they won’t even step outside the Town Hall to talk. Not good enough.
I was delighted to welcome North-West Conservative MEP Sir Robert Atkins and Lady Atkins to Walkden today to meet with local residents and support our candidate in Walkden South Nicky Turner.
We received an excellent response from local residents and I am very grateful to Sir Robert and Lady Atkins for agreeing to visit us.
I’m going to have a thorough read through the whole of the Walkden Tesco planning application in the next day or two, and I’ll post a summary on this blog once I’ve done. I will also reply personally to all the local residents who have left a comment on the previous article or who have e-mailed me to ask questions.
We’re in the middle of election campaigning now and I haven’t managed to post on this blog anything like as much as I’d like to do. I will try to post regular election updates as well as the more regular fare. We have an excellent set of 20 candidates representing the whole of Salford and I hope that local residents will give Conservative candidates the chance to serve them on 1st May.
Of course, the casework doesn’t stop just because there’s an election on. In particular, I’ve received a number of queries about the Tesco development which I referred to in my previous post. I’ve also received several complaints about a highways issue and I am working with residents to resolve this - more on that soon I hope.
So in every respect it is all systems go - local residents in Walkden South can of course contact me on councillor.lindley@salford.gov.uk if they have any queries or problems.
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