Your Conservative government has made £5m available through our nearby LEPs to help revitalise Redditch: the Labour-run council hasn’t bothered to submit the paperwork and won’t do it until ‘some point before the end of 2018’.
Between 2010-2015 unemployment across the West Midlands fell, in some cases dramatically. Except in Redditch where unemployment rose by 2,000 over those years in contrast to our surrounding areas.
These are just two snippets as an example amongst many other examples.
Labour has been systematically doing down Redditch for years whilst our neighbours proposer - Labour in Redditch has failed to address a wide range of economic issues and the evidence seems to back this up.
Their record is poor:
- They sold the Hewell Road site for £1,
- They dithered for 10 years over the Abbey Stadium swimming pool,
- and they sold Threadneedle House for less than it cost to build it.
Threadneedle House sold for just over £1m but it cost some £6-£8m to build the combined estate at the time (Town Hall was built at the same time, so it's difficult to extract an exact cost for Threadneedle House, but even if you split the cost we're dealing with £3m-£4m for the Threadneedle House part). The flats that now exist in Threadneedle House didn’t all sell on the open market so the whole building was recently marketed as a buy-to-let investment for £6.75m (source: onthemarket.com). Just imagine for a moment how many council services could have been provided if the best price was obtained and the money put to good use, or what good could have been done if the council developed the property itself to provide quality council homes for Redditch people.
Presiding over this poor record is not how you #LoveRedditch. Quite the opposite, actually.
It’s time to release the full potential of our GREAT town by voting in a Conservative council on Thursday 3 May 2018 so that we can #UnlockRedditch together.
