More Local Things To Do

The Lib Dems have invested in parks, play areas and things to do and are improving green open spaces and routes along waterways for communities across B&NES. Under our leadership the Council is managing more land for nature, cutting the use of chemical herbicides and planting thousands of trees and wildflowers. Despite the challenge of the pandemic, we have also invested in new leisure facilities that are fit for the future and will help to get more people active. Over the next four years we will:

• Continue to invest in local play and community spaces in B&NES.

• Work with town and parish councils to improve youth provision in every part of North East Somerset, including a mobile youth club for our villages.

• Extend green infrastructure projects to create new walking and cycle ways.

• Champion safety and access issues along the River Avon and its tributaries.

• Establish a new ecology centre for Bath and North East Somerset.

• Support community food growing by identifying new spaces for community allotments.

• Strengthen planning polices for nature, increasing biodiversity gains from new development beyond the statutory minimum of 10%.

• Explore how planning policy can be strengthened to discourage the paving of front gardens in order to reduce water run-off.

• Continue to green our urban centres, increasing the number of street trees.

• Create new health and well-being opportunities in parks.

• Extend the residents’ Discovery Card to offer discounts to local leisure facilities. and work to increase the uptake of discovery cards by local residents.