After nearly nine months of Amey operating the county’s highways contract, the Liberal Democrats on Gloucestershire County Council have called for them to perform better or face further financial penalties.

Last week saw the publication of the policy paper entitled ‘mental health services: achieving better access by 2020’, which sets out national waiting time standards from April 2015 and plans to provide better access to mental health services over the next five years.

On the same day as the Tour of Britain came through parts of Gloucestershire unanimous support was given to a Lib Dem proposal to promote cycling in the county by improving cycle routes and cycle parking.

The Liberal Democrats and the Green Party hope that opposition councillors will back their call for full and frank disclosure of the costs to cancel the contract to build a waste incinerator at Javelin Park. They hope that all opposition councillors will unite behind their motion to be debated at the county council on the 10^th of September.

As the country celebrates National Cycle to Work Day this Thursday, local Lib Dem councillors call for cycling to be given a higher priority in Gloucestershire.

Liberal Democrats across the county are delighted that progress is being made with the £450,000 non-recurring two-year investment in Young People’s Mental Health.

The Liberal Democrats and the Green Party County Councillor for Stroud Central is to call for all elected members of the county council to know the full range of costs that would be incurred if the decision was taken to cancel the current contract with Urbaser Balfour Beatty for the provision of a residual waste treatment facility.

Liberal Democrats have welcomed reports from Network Rail at the recent Environment and Communities Committee that the new Kemble to Swindon dual line will finally go live this September.

Schools across Gloucestershire are being encouraged by the Liberal Democrats to bring their year 5 groups for free safety sessions at the SkillZone Centre on Tuffley Lane in Gloucester. 

A Liberal Democrat recommendation to create an all-party ‘Apprenticeship Task Group’ was unanimously supported at yesterday’s full council meeting at Shire Hall.