Mayor Peter Taylor and Watford‘s Liberal Democrat councillors have prioritised protecting local services and helping people through the cost of living emergency in this year’s ‘council budget.
Liberal Democrat Mayor of Watford Peter Taylor has expressed wild disbelief at Labour Councillors for trying to amend a motion on the Ultra Low Emission Zone to pass the cost of a scrappage scheme on to Watford residents.
The Liberal Democrat group on Watford Borough Council have submitted motions on the NHS and ULEZ extension to be debated at full council on 31st January. These will be heard before the debate on the Council’s budget for 2023/4 which needs to be passed at the meeting.
Watford Borough Council has learned that they have been unsuccessful for the second time in securing £16m in additional funding from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
The Conservative government have admitted that there are delays in the hospital building programme which is affecting plans to build new facilities at Watford General Hospital.
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Mayor Peter Taylor and Cabinet Member for Sustainability Cllr Ian Stotesbury have written to Sadiq Khan asking him to phase in the implementation of ULEZ, extend the scrappage scheme to Watford residents and rezone Watford to zone 6 so that residents can save money on public transport
Liberal Democrats Mayor of Watford Peter Taylor, Leader of Three Rivers District Council Cllr Sarah Nelmes and Leader of St Albans City and District Council Cllr Chris White wrote a joint letter to the Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay MP to call for West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to receive the funding it needs.
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Peter Taylor has responded to newly released train statistics which show that West Midlands Trains and Avanti West Coast had some of the worst punctuality statistics in the country and have got worse.
