Filwood

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Filwood returns two councillors to the Bristol City Council. In May 2011, one seat (currently Labour held) comes up for election after a four year term.

Stephen Petter is Bristol South Green Party's candidate for the City Council election on 5th May 2011.

Stephen PetterStephen Petter lives in the Filwood ward. He has been a candidate in Bristol local elections on three previous occasions, and has stood in local and Parliamentary elections in past years.

Stephen is a member of Bedminster Quaker Meeting which meets in Wedmore Vale. He is a trustee of several charities. He takes an active part in local politics with a special interest in Public Transport, having represented Friends of the Earth on the Scrutiny Commission concerned with Transport.  he is a school governor and was formerly a clerk to governors.

At the age of 73,  due to his active life-style which includes cycling, gardening and tending an allotment, Stephen finds life more interesting than when he was employed as a computer consultant, though he travelled widely. In Britain or abroad he took an interest in local government, and his Open University degree, with subjects including systems, sociology, and urban development,  was relevant to it.

The Green Party policies he considers most relevant to Filwood are:
  • Public transport; he campaigns for a bus station at Temple Meads;
  • Road safety, especially for children and for cyclists;
  • Planning and development (he deplores Bristol's lack of planning - simply reacting to commercial developers and to ill-considered transport ideas);
  • NO to nuclear power stations
  • Education - why are Bristol's schools still so near the worst in Britain?; and
  • better services all round - Bristol remains below average in the National Audit Office's ratings.


If elected, Stephen would work honestly and tirelessly for all the residents of Filwood, and for a Better Bristol.

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