The petition against car parking charges organised by local resident Ruth Ash generated over 2,000 signatures so Aylesbury Vale District Council were obliged by their own rules to debate the issue last week.   Ruth was allowed 5 minutes to speak in support of the petition and did a great job.  It was then the turn of the members of AVDC and our two local Tory Councillors, Duncan Wigley and Lindsay Rowlands had preference to speak first. The only problem was they weren’t there!  A special debate about Winslow and neither of our District Councillors turned up !  It was left to a Liberal Democrat Councillor from Aylesbury to lead the support for our campaign to keep parking in Winslow free of charge.

Apart from having the debate about parking charges in Winslow this meeting included the annual budget setting which fixes our Council Tax for the next year.  So, not only were we not represented in the debate but there was no input from Winslow about our Council Tax.  Hopefully Winslow residents will remember this when they go to the ballot box in May!