Chelmsford Borough Conservatives

Welcome to the website of the Conservative Members of Chelmsford Borough Council. You elected us to run the Borough Council in 2011, 2007 and 2003. During that time the Borough has made excellent progress after stagnating under the Liberal Democrats and following May’s elections we have a sufficient majority to enable us to make Chelmsford & South Woodham Ferrers even better.

So much has happened in those eight years that I only have room for a few highlights, but a full list is shown in our Manifesto for the May elections here.

The Conservative led Borough Council achieved an ‘Excellent’ rating from the Audit Commission and Chelmsford is the first ‘Safer Community’ in the UK, as confirmed by the World Health Organization who inspected us last year. Our Parks keep on winning awards and our sports facilities have been renewed at Riverside at a fraction of the cost of replacing it. In South Woodham the swimming pool is extremely popular and Hylands House goes from strength to strength.

All of this has been done by keeping Council Tax rises as low as possible, and  in the last four years, despite all the problems caused by Labour, our rises have been almost half of those seen in the last four years of the Liberal Democrat administration. This year Council Tax is not going up at all and there are no major cuts in our services due to good financial control.

No wonder Chelmsford was voted ‘The Happiest Town in the UK’ last year.