Windmill Hill

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The Windmill Hill ward stretches from Malago Vale to the Arnos Vale cemetery, taking in Windmill Hill, Victoria Park, and Totterdown. Need to check whether you live in this ward? Click on Bristol City Council's 'ward finder'.

Windmill Hill residents elect two councillors to sit on Bristol City Council. At present, both seats are held by members of the ruling LibDem  group. One of them comes up for election in May 2010.

Stephen Petter is Bristol South Green Party's candidate for the City Council election on 6th May 2010.

Stephen PetterStephen Petter lives in Redcatch Road, a few yards outside the boundary of Windmill Hill Ward, but closer to its centre than when he lived in Totterdown. He has been the Green Party candidate for Windmill Hill in the last three elections.

Stephen is a member of Bedminster Quaker Meeting which meets in Wedmore Vale, and he was also until recently organiser of the Victoria Park Christian Aid group. He is a trustee of Bristol Quakers and 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.

At the age of 72,  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 Windmill Hill 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);
  • Education - why is Bristol 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 Windmill Hill, and for a Better Bristol.

A Green vote is a tangible expression of your concern for a better Quality of Life now and into the future.