News | Elections Key players stand down at election
THE political parties have been setting out their stalls ahead of the Maidstone Council elections. Up for grabs on Thursday, May 5
will be one post for each of the 19 wards contested this time around – a third of the seats on the council. Several long-standing councillors
are not running for re-election. Among them is Bearsted’s Cllr Richard Ash, elected in 1992. The retired schoolteacher is a former mayor and has been a member of the Maidstone/Beauvais Twinning Association and the Mid Kent Downs Steering Group, as well as the Quality Bus Partnership and voluntary group
Involve.The Con-
Allington: Barry Ginley (Con); Diana Lewins (Lib Dem);MoMcDonald-Robert- son (Ukip); Marianna Poliszczuk (Lab); Guy Tanner (Green); . Barming: Patrick Coates (Lab); Fay Gooch (Ind)*; Lizzie Hare (Lib Dem); Ben Knowles (Green); Sam Lain-Rose (Con). Bearsted: Jim Grogan (Lab); Ciaran Oliver (Green); Robert Pettit (Ukip); Michael Revell (Con); Geoff Samme (Lib Dem); Denis Spooner (Ind). Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sut- ton: Jean Harvey (Lab); Caroline Jessel (Green); Mark McGiffon (Ukip); Steve Munford (Ind)*; Cheryl Taylor Maggio (Con); JanWebb (Lib Dem). Boxley: Wendy Hinder (Con)*; Hannah Patton (Green); Mike Thompson (Lib
servative group has selected Mike Revell, a retired optometrist from Essex, now living in Bearsted, to contest the seat. Cllr Ian Chittenden, a borough councillor in South ward for the past 10 years, is stepping down for health reasons, although he plans to continue as county councillor for the North East Division. He said the biggest challenge had
been problems relating to housing development applications in the south of Maidstone and the inher- ent increase in traffic congestion.
LIST OF BOROUGH COUNCIL CANDIDATES
Dem); JacquiWardle (Ukip). Bridge: Alan Bartlett (Con); Donna Greenan (Green); Georgia Harvey (Lib Dem); Bruce Heald (Lab). Coxheath & Hunton: Ken Baker (Lab); Emily Fermor (Lib Dem); Ron Leagas (Con); Mike Summergill (Green); Keith Woollven (Ukip). East: Richard Coates (Lab); Martin Cox (Lib Dem)*; Ben Darlington (Green); Gareth Kendall (Ukip); Steven Sheppard (East). Fant: Keith Adkinson (Lab); Rosaline Janko (Lib Dem); Ian McDonald (Green); Stephen Paine (Con)*;Colin Taylor (Ukip). Headcorn: Sarah Barwick (Lab); Georgia Dallas (Lib Dem); Derek Eagle (Green); Nick Goddard (Ukip); Shellina Prender-
gast (Con). Heath: Alan Chell (Con); Marlyn Randall (Lab); Bryan Vizzard (Lib Dem)*; Geoff Wilkinson (Green). High Street: Michael George (Ukip); Denise Joy (Lib Dem)*; Joe Mamo (Con); Gareth Phillips (Green); Dan Wilkinson (Lab). Marden&Yalding: Rachel Hill (Lib Dem); Tim Licence (Lab); Steve McLoughlin (Con)*; Jim Shalice (Green); Pamela Watts (Ukip). North Downs: Patrick Garten (Con); Bar- bara Neill (Green); John Watson (Lib Dem). North: Maureen Cleator (Lab); Wendy Eagle (Green); Charles Elliott (Ukip); Michelle Hastie (Lib Dem); Jeff Tree
(Con). ParkWood: John Barned (Ukip); Belinda Bassett (Green); Matthew Burton (Con); AndrewCockersole (Lib Dem); Daniel Mo- riarty (Ind)*; Marsha Todd (Lab). Shepway North: Gary Butler (Eng Dem); Chris Garland (Con)*; Geoff Harvey (Labour); Dinesh Khadka (LibDem); Steve Muggeridge (Green); Michael Wardle (Ukip). Shepway South: Milden Choongo (Lib Dem); Robert Hinder (Con); Stuart Jeffery (Green); Theresa Lyons (Lab); Eddie Pow- ell (Ukip); Timothy Raymen (Eng Dem). South: Steve Cheeseman (Green); Paul Cooper (Con); Mike Hogg (Ind); Wendy Hollands (Lab); Paul Wilby (Lib Dem). *denotes sitting councillor
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He said: “Success in opposing ad- ditional housing in both Tovil and Boughton Lane has been especially pleasing.” Conservative Cllr Daphne
Parvin has served North Downs for 32 years, during which time she was mayor and represented the council on the Brenchley Charity, the Cutbush and Corrall Charities, the Mid Kent Downs Steering Group and the Upper Medway In- ternal Drainage Board. Lib Dem Cllr Jenni Paterson has served on the council for 21 years
and been vice-chair of the Cobtree Manor Estate Charity Committee. Labour Group leader Cllr Mal-
colm McKay, who made his first foray into politics in 2012 as ward councillor for Shepway South, has decided four years is enough. The former electrical wholesale man- ager (62) said: “There are things I nowwant to do. But I have enjoyed my time as a councillor. While pol- itics will always be a mix of frus- tration and rewards, I do feel I have represented the ward well and done my best.”
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