Sutton’s Liberal Democrat councillors used the first major Full Council meeting since May’s local elections to back two motions aimed at giving residents a stronger voice, both in their neighbourhoods and at the ballot box.
Honest high street businesses are being forced to compete in a two-tier tax system as tax dodging schemes “spreading like wildfire", MPs on the Treasury Select Committee have been told.
Wallington South councillors Sam Martin and Jayne McCoy supported residents when the lift in ten-storey Hendfield Court broke down for three months.
There have been important developments on two local planning issues, with a major housing application submitted for Wallington Nurseries and action being taken against the unauthorised car wash on Stafford Road.
Wallington councillors are urging TfL and the Mayor of London to improve safety at the Wallington Green junction.
Aaron Goater joined Barry Lewis and Sunita Gordon as one of Wallington North's Liberal Democrat councillors in May and has already hit the ground running.
