When you first become a Councillor, apart from the great honour and excitement you, feel it changes your life completely. Suddenly, residents are asking you for help: some with very private and sad issues, others asking for help on matters that involve, perhaps, a whole area. When I was first elected, back in 2002, one of the biggest issues that came to light was a planning application for building on the area known as the Woodland off Mitre Way. This application and subsequent ones failed, which was purely because the residents came together to fight the applicant and even this year we have been successful again.
- emm448