♦️COUNCIL HOUSING
A Labour Council will start building Council housing again. 🏘️
The failures of the Lib Dems and Tories have resulted in a housing crisis. The provision of genuinely affordable housing is our number one priority.
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♦️Business Rates on Student Blocks
We will support the introduction of Business Rates on Student Blocks
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A Labour Council will campaign for landlords to pay Business Rates.
The explosion in student numbers means that many residents feel that their communities are unbalanced and they are losing a sense of neighbourhood.
Successive Lib Dem and Tory administrations have failed to address air quality in #Bath. The result is that we now live in one of the most polluted cities in the country causing premature deaths and health problems for the elderly and children.
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The cuts to policing introduced by the Lib Dem / Tory Coalition Government resulted in the closure of #Bath Police Station and a surge in crime, particularly robbery which is growing at one of the fastest rates in the country.
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Libraries have been under attack in #Bath & NE Somerset, and in the country as a whole.
We promise no cuts to the library service in the future.
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A Labour Council will pay its staff a real #LivingWage and end #ZeroHour contracts and insist that those it has contracts with do the same.
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