Hello and good evening

Together we can achieve the changes you wish to see in our community.
I feel honoured and privileged to have been given the opportunity to represent our wonderful community and I intend to serve you to the best of my ability on issues that matter to you. I hope you will contact me if there are any issues in Great Hollands North (inc. Jennett's Park) that you feel need addressing. Please know that your voice will be heard and you can make a change.
Together we can work to achieve changes in our neighbourhood that matter to you and I hope that you will approach me with any concerns, suggestions or ideas you have for our local area. The key to achieving the change you wish to see in Great Hollands North is for us, as a community, to work together. This will only happen if we all take an active role in working towards a better constituency. I need your participation, contributions and recommendations in order to make Great Hollands North a better place to live, work and play for everyone.
My role as your councillor for Great Hollands North is to address local concerns, tackling issues that affect you and your neighbourhood on a daily basis. I am here to help you with issues relating to both the Borough and Town Councils.
My favourite inspirational quotes:
You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
Unknown Author
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi
When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Lin-Chi
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
A. A. Milne
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
Abraham Maslow
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracian
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Basho
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Lao-Tze
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
John Ruskin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.
Unknown Author
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
Virgil Garnett Thomson
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar
I would like to take this oppourtunity to thank those of you who are already tirelessly volunteering in our community. Your hard work has built a stonger community spirit and made Great Hollands a better place for us all to live. What Great Hollands needs now is even more people who are willing to contribute to our local society, in order to build upon the exceptional work already being carried out. Only then will our community reach it's full potential.
Who is responsible for what?
Bracknell Forest Borough Council: bracknell-forest.gov.uk |
Bracknell Town Council: bracknelltowncouncil.gov.uk |
Bracknell Forest Homes (Council tenants): bracknellforesthomes.org.uk |
- Schools (Education)
- Adult and family learning
- Social services and benefits
- Strategic planning matters
- Highways (Roads)
- Refuse and waste disposal
- Libraries and museums
- Town planning and regeneration
- Environmental health
- Street cleaning
- Licensing
- Housing
- Business rates
- Council tax
- Leisure facilities
- Planning permission and disputes
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- Allotments
- The bandstand (town centre)
- Bus shelters
- Community grants
- Halls for hire
- Recreation areas
- Parks and playgrounds
- Synthetic/Sports pitches
- TV licensing grants
- Radar keys
- Fishing permits
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- Adaptations
- Anti-social behaviour
- Garage lettings
- Housing rent and arrears
- Housing repairs/improvements
- Landscaping on housing estates
- Leaseholders
- Leasehold services and service charges
- Letting and empty properties
- Neighbourhood Estate Action Team
- Repairs and maintenance
- Sheltered housing
- Tenancy matters
- Welfare benefits advice
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If you have contacted the relevant authority and still feel that your issue has not been dealt with sufficiently, please contact me.
Together we can achieve the changes you wish to see in our community.
Bracknell Forest in pictures