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Councillor Lewis Herbert, Coleridge
77 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge CB1 7BS, Phone: 01223 721027 Email: lewis.herbert@cambridge.gov.uk
Lewis has lived in Coleridge for the last decade, half of the time he has been in Cambridge. He was first elected as your Coleridge Labour Councillor in June 2004 and has been Leader of the Labour Group since 2006.
In his earlier work, he spent 25 years implementing recycling, reuse and improved waste management, including a long period working for Cambridgeshire County Council. He is a committed environmentalist and he continues to work on projects that tackle climate change and cut the country’s waste mountain.
Lewis enjoys gardening, cooking, historical research and occasional overseas trips. He swims at least three times a week at Parkside.
Lewis says, "Local Coleridge residents are rightly proud of their area. And we want to improve it further, despite many challenges, not least rising traffic congestion and pollution caused by new developments. We will oppose potentially damaging developments like the unsustainable 12,000 houses proposed for Cambridge airport.
The Coleridge Labour team works with, and involves, local people. We want residents to contribute to the detail of all key decisions and proposals affecting them, and will fight to prevent them being sidelined by the planning system or lack of consultation.
Lewis is Labour spokesperson on council strategy and finance.
He is a member of the Strategy and Resources Scrutiny Committee, Housing Management Board and East Area Committee. He is also a Governor of the Coleridge/Parkside federation where his now grown-up children went to school.
Lewis is currently campaigning locally on:
The city's growth agenda must be made to benefit local people and not end up with residents of areas like East Cambridge paying the highest price.
Lewis sits on the following City Council committees
Councillor Jeremy Benstead, Coleridge
47 Gilbert Road, Cambridge, CB4 3NX, Phone: 01223 351669, Fax: 01223 411987, Email: jeremy.benstead@cambridge.gov.uk
Jeremy Benstead has been a Labour councillor for Coleridge ward since 1992. He enjoys getting out on the streets and talking to local residents, and is currently working in partnership with his fellow ward councillors, residents and the local police to tackle crime and community safety issues.
Jeremy is angry with the Lib Dems' gradual dismantling of the city council's community development service, and says "As your councillor I am doing all I can to reverse this policy." He is also keen to protect Cambridge's green spaces, such as Coldhams Common, Stourbridge Common and Ditton Meadows from the consequences of the Liberal Democrats' determination to build on Marshalls Airport.
Jeremy says, "Twenty years ago I was an active campaigner to stop roads being built across Coldhams Common and Ditton Meadows, because I thought that was an inappropriate and outdated solution to Cambridge's transport problems, even then. Now I find that, between them, the City Liberal Democrats and County Council Tories are re-hashing the same old proposals to service their joint misguided plans to heap the majority of Cambridge's development in the next ten years in the same place - the Airport.
Building roads over or under our open spaces was wrong twenty years ago, and it's still wrong now."Jeremy sits on the following City Council committees:
County Councillor Martin Ballard, Coleridge
35 Abbey Road, Cambridge, CB5 8HH 562737 martin.ballard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Martin is your County Councillor for Coleridge ward, leader of the Labour Group on the County Council and a governor at Ridgefield School.
Being on the County Council, I have become especially involved in education and Social Services. In education, the most immediate issue is the future of Coleridge School in its federation with Parkside. Coleridge has a high percentage of elderly people and I have a keen interest to ensure that those who are vulnerable receive proper care and all get well informed advice on benefit entitlement. I also campaign on the environment, especially on issues of global warming because they are of importance to the future life of people of Coleridge, as they are to my own grandchildren and growing generations across the world."
Martin is campaigning on the following issues:
Martin sits on the following:
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Tariq Sadiq, Coleridge
17 Limetree Close, Cambridge, CB1 8PF Phone: 01223 710317 Email: tariqsadiq@btinternet.com
Tariq Sadiq was elected Labour councillor for Coleridge ward in 2007. He has worked in higher education as an administrator and fundraiser for many years. He believes that education is fundamentally important to the future of our children and Britain's success in the world and feels strongly that good local schools like the Coleridge/Parkside Federation deserve our support.
He said "We need to manage the needs of a growing population and a dynamic local economy in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way and create well thought-out housing developments with proper transport and public services infrastructure. We need to build houses that ordinary people can afford as well as more homes suitable for older people."
Tariq is a governor of Ridgefield Primary School and a member of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Trust. He is proud of Labour's achievements in reducing Child Poverty and is keen to see more being done at a local level by the City and County Councils. He has been working hard to tackle anti-social behaviour in Coleridge including under-age drinking in and around Coleridge Rec.