• Raising standards for kitchens and bathrooms for all Council tenants.
• Creating a safer community. Working in multi-agency surgeries with police, businesses and council services.
• More play and pitch facilities and support from youth workers.
• Keep county lines out.
• Other matters include parking, recreation and sport, local schools and NHS services.

I have organised an audit of several of the traffic problems in the area with County traffic engineers to whom the community is grateful. I have a good relationship with Booth Wood Primary School but they find it very difficult to persuade parents to park without inconveniencing others or to abandon cars altogether.
I am in touch with other primary and secondary schools on Thorpe Hill on issues relating to travel to school and pick-ups and always ready to make representations to the County Council.
I meet with the Heads of both Charnwood College and DeLisle RC College.

I have made successful representations to retain the Post Office and Pharmacy, I also value the general store and take-aways at Hermitage Shopping Centre and the SPAR and hairdresser on Old Ashby Road.

The Borough Councillors and I monitor all planning applications in the area. Our particular concern is the increasing number of permits to turn family homes into Houses in Multiple Occupation.