Following our letter posted to all 160 plus candidates standing in the 3rd May Powys County Council elections, we are beginning to get emails and returned slips, most confirming support for the CRAP campaign.
RURAL CANDIDATES
Powys is a proudly rural county with a small number of relatively small towns and villages. An interesting response to our letter came from Sarah Reast, Powys County Council candidate for Lllanbrynmair, a particularly rural ward. We quote her email below:
Thank you for your letter asking for my support for your campaign. As my
Llanbrynmair ward is extremely rural, parking is not an issue that
directly relates to us here so I can not honestly say I can represent the
constituents views on an issue that that barely affects them. However, if
I am elected then I will be in a position to view the matter from a more
County wide perspective and would be very interested then to re-visit it.
Watch this space!
Good luck.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Reast
County Council candidate for Llanbrynmair
We think Sarah makes a valid comment but take this opportunity, perhaps not adequately made in our letter, to stress how important traffic and parking should be to both rural as well as urban members of the Powys community.
Parking is undoubtedly particularly important to residents of our towns of villages, but as important are the well being and interests of the rural community to urbanites, so should the health and vitality of our urban centres be to the county’s country dwellers.
Rural residents use local towns for shopping and leisure, and tourists, upon whom mch of our economy depends, are attracted as much by the unique appeal of our countryside as they are to what our historic towns and villages have to offer. Town and country are interdependent and it is vitally important that we who live locally, in town, village or in the countryside, use all that our unique countryside has to offer as well as shopping locally, buying local produce and products and support local enterprise and businesses.
Our county will only thrive if it remains a wonderful place to live, a thriving place to earn a living and a welcoming place for visitors.
Don’t let short term draconian enforcement of outdated parking restrictions dissuade visitors from the local community as well those from further afield, from coming to our towns.
NOW THE DETAILS SO FAR:
We have received support from the following candidates, all of whom ‘support an IMMEDIATE review of traffic and parking throughout Powys’. Some comments forwarded to us will be added over the coming days.
In no particular order, support has been received thus far from:
Cllr. John Steadman – Ystradgynlais
Cllr. Margaret Morris – Glasbury
Robert Golesworthy – Gwernyfed
Cllr. Gareth Ratcliffe – Hay
Keith Tampin – Llandrindod East & West
Cllr. Gareth Morgan – Llanidloes
Dr John Morgan – Llanerchyddol Ward Welshpool
Cllr. Mike Williams – Machynlleth
Cllr Kathryn Silk – Bwlch
Cllr. David Jones – Guilsford
Mary Fellowes – Bwlch
Christine Williams Llanfair Caereinion
Chris Davies - Glasbury
Liz Davies - Bronllys
Only 150 more to go!
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