WE WILL:
- Protect the tenure of tenants of social housing
- Promote Dartford town centre regeneration by the introduction of new retail shopping and sympathetic housing
- Protect funding for Neighbourhood Policing schemes
- Campaign to protect our Sure Start Centres from funding cuts
- Establish a Business Forum to encourage business enterprise and new jobs
- Streamline the management of Dartford Council
- Provide more resources for front line services by reducing the extravagant allowances and perks paid to leading councillors
- Fund Ward-specific measures chosen by councillors
- Promote greater community arts activity and introduce an Arts Week and Youth Festival
- Increase community work among young people
- Introduce an improved recycling scheme
- Support Dartford becoming a Fair Trade Borough
- Increase efforts to bring much needed empty homes back into use and work with housing providers to promote more social housing and greater access to the housing ladder
- Pressure KCC to take tougher action over the condition of local roads
- Improve public access to public facilities
- Decentralise services to local communities along Co-operative principles