AN INDEPENDENT PARTY CHAMPIONING CHISLEHURST

We Will

Chislehurst Matters Promises

Communication

We continue to grow our existing relationships with other party groups and LBB, while encouraging local residents and groups to share their views and engage with us. Strong communication and engagement are essential to being an effective councillor and truly representing the community’s priorities.

We are here to listen, act and respond. We can do this face to face in meetings in person or virtually, in surgeries and by email.

Representation

A councillor’s primary role is to represent their ward and the people who live in it. Councillors provide a bridge between the community and the council. As well as being an advocate for local residents and signposting them to the right people at the council, councillors need to keep them informed about the issues that affect them.

We continue to undertake 

  • respond to your queries and investigate your concerns
  • communicate council decisions that affect you
  • know our patch and be aware of any problems
  • know and work with representatives of local organisations, interest groups and businesses
  • represent your views at council meetings
  • lead local campaigns on your behalf.

Surgeries

We have two surgeries a month, with two councillors in attendance if possible. Please pop along.

Email

We respond to every email.  If we cannot give you an answer immediately, we will tell you why, what we are doing and when we hope to come back to you by.

If we slip up occasionally, tell us, chase us!

Keeping you up to date

We use a variety of mechanisms to let you know what is happening, including, this website and our social media platforms, such as Facebook, X, Instagram, Nextdoor, YouTube and TikTok.

We also produce an annual newsletter outlining what we have been doing.

Council meetings

We along with a number of other councillors put pressure on LBB to live stream local council public meetings so that they can be viewed at the time or a time that’s convenient so as to open up local democracy and decision making. Live stream meetings started in early 2025.

We have always ensured, items that affect Chislehurst are put in the public domain as soon as possible and only discussed behind closed doors when there are compelling reasons to do so. We will fight for transparency of decision making.

Mike, Mark & Alison

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