Lib Dem priorities will be to

• Extend the employment of park wardens and improve maintenance of our Open Spaces.
• Promote new initiatives to tackle the increasing problem of abandoned cars.
• Extend the Street Warden scheme.
• Provide a continuous improvement in the state of our roads by introducing a rolling programme of pothole and pavement repairs.
• Introduce a comprehensive tree maintenance policy that will ensure residents rights to light and security.
• Promote and encourage the gating of back alleyways throughout the borough.
• Extend the boroughs recycling schemes, to include recycling of “hard” items such as freezers, washing machines and other household appliances.
• Open Station Road, Hayes to traffic for an experimental period so that local traders can benefit from passing trade and the problems of roving gangs can be diluted.
• Terminal 5: Campaign for proper compensation for residents in the South of the Borough affected by the building of the new terminal.
• Relax tipping charges at approved sites and increase penalties for “Fly Tipping”.
  Introduce free collection of Hard and Garden rubbish for elderly residents.

Liberal Democrat councillors will

• Build on the improvements in Standards in Hillingdon Schools of the last 4 years.
• Support the building of a new School in Ruislip to give Ruislip children a Ruislip School.
• Expand certain primary schools to cater for increased demand.
• Improve teacher retention rates by tackling bureaucracy, supporting increased teacher pay as Lib Dems have done in Scotland.
• Fight to recover spending currently being taken away by the Labour Government.
• Encourage and support School Governors.
• Support initiatives for adult education.
• Create a Library Service for the 21st Century.
  

The borough however still needs to strive to improve the service and ensure that there is sufficient supply of Social Housing.

• More effort is required to encourage tenants to achieve self management.
• The Council should encourage the transfer of vacant properties to Housing Associations in return for permanent nomination rights and additional Social Housing within the borough for Hillingdon Residents.
• Encourage more private landlords by improving the relations between the council and the private sector.
  

• Reactivate the plan to link the Central & Piccadilly Lines
• Provide better and more reliable bus links throughout Hillingdon by developing a hub system based on shorter routes.
• Extend the Cycling routes throughout the borough.
• Continue to campaign for proper financing of the Tube and oppose Privatisation put forward by Labour and the Tories.
• Support the proposed tram service along the Uxbridge Road.

In particular we will:

• Support initiatives to incorporate Community facilities at the Sidmouth site.
• Create a Library service for the 21st Century.
• Support initiatives to have a top class pool and Leisure centre within the borough.
  

Liberal Democrats in Hillingdon will continue to demand increased Police Resources.

• We will demand a fully functioning Police Station in Ruislip to service the North of the Borough.
• Extend Street and Park Wardens throughout the borough.
• Improve street lighting and replace old and faulty lights faster.
• Promote the gating of back alleys to discourage illegal use.
  

In 1998 Labour left Hillingdon’s Social Services in a shambles. Severely criticised by Government Inspectors the care of our Children was put at risk and our old peoples homes were in some case not fit for habitation.

After 2002 Liberal Democrats will

• Increase joint working between the NHS in Hillingdon & the Council’s Social Services Department.
• Provide better accommodation for people with disabilities.
• Campaign to scrap the Labour Government imposed personal care charges for the elderly and infirm.
• Increase resources for Food Inspectors and other Environmental health posts to protect residents.
• Continue to campaign for Harefield & Mount Vernon Hospital.
• Ensure there is an independent watchdog for local Health services.
• Lobby the Government to fully recompense Hillingdon for dealing with Unaccompanied Children.
• Expand the capacity in Hillingdon’s Old Peoples and Nursing Homes.
• Ensure adequate expenditure on Mental Health Welfare.