Canterbury City Council Ignores Parking Petition Friday, 23 February, 2024 Last night at Canterbury City Council’s budget meeting, your Conservative Councillor team, supported by managers from Active Life and the Kavanagh Cinema, presented 3 petitions totalling 1,700 signatures from local people. These petitions called on the Labour/Liberal coalition to back-track on the huge hikes in Herne Bay parking charges they are planning from April. While we have been able to... Local News
Conservatives Boosting Affordable Homes 28th June 2014 Dan Watkins has welcomed figures showing that the Conservatives are delivering a growing number of affordable homes to help lower income families get access to... Local News
Unemployment Continues to Fall in Tooting 27th May 2014 Dan Watkins has welcomed new figures showing that the number of people claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance in Tooting has fallen by 565 over the last year. Since... Local News
Save the Romany Campaign 7th May 2014 Currently I'm helping the campaign create a Community Interest Company, which will provide protection for the site in the event that the owners try to sell the... Local News
St George’s Clean Bill of Health 6th May 2014 The past couple of months have been important ones for St George’s, as it progressed its Foundation Hospital status and awaited the latest Care Quality... Reports
Totterdown Residents Launch New Community Group 6th May 2014 To follow are minutes of the meeting held with Totterdown Estate residents on 29th April 14. More background information on the project can be found here. Local News
Growing Self-employment is Good News 5th May 2014 Employment is growing, unemployment is down and wages are rising. The jobs market was ticking over even while the economy was flat, so now that we are seeing... Opinions
Wheatsheaf Campaign Celebrates Latest Success 13th April 2014 The Save the Wheatsheaf campaign tonight held its second public meeting on the evening of 31st March to update local residents on the progress of the campaign... Local News
New Housing in Tooting 5th April 2014 You don’t have to look very far in Tooting to see examples of new housing projects that are underway. And with a growing population and rising property prices... Reports
Dan's Response to Budget 2014 19th March 2014 Dan Watkins, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Tooting, today welcomed the measures unveiled by Chancellor of the Exchequer in this year’s budget. Local News
