This is where residents meet the state most often and win least often. A council decision changes where you live, what you pay and whether your home is safe — and the person it happens to has almost no way to test it.
You can change your bank, your phone provider and your supermarket. You cannot change your council. It houses you, licenses the building next door, decides your housing application and investigates its own conduct when you complain about any of it.
That combination — monopoly power plus self-investigation — is the same structural problem this campaign identifies in the press and in the justice system. The answer is the same too: publish the record, and give the person on the receiving end something they can actually enforce.
Disrepair and damp, allocations transparency, temporary accommodation, and the housing rules that shut care leavers out by accident.
Read the commitmentsComplaints that go somewhere, licensing and the night-time economy, planning that answers residents, and published service data.
Read the commitmentsHousing safety, equal treatment in allocations and the right to a genuine complaint route are rights questions and sit inside the core mandate.
Council tax levels, planning policy, development priorities and service funding sit outside it — and on those, the constituency decides and this seat votes as the majority directs.
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