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Bathavon South
Your Bathavon South Councillor is Neil Butters. Bathavon South covers Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse, Midford, Monkton Combe, Shoscombe, South Stoke, and Wellow. Neil works hard for Bathavon South and does his best to keep local residents informed.
Don Foster MP with Cllr Neil Butters
Cllr Neil Butters
Cllr Neil Butters
Neil has represented the Bathavon South Ward since May 2007. This covers Freshford, Hinton Charterhouse, Midford, Monkton Combe, Shoscombe, South Stoke, and Wellow.
Neil was born in Durban, South Africa but was brought up in England. He attended Magdalen College School, Brackley - a state grammar school. He now lives in South Stoke with his wife.
He holds a London University BA degree in Psychology, Law and Economics, an Aston University Diploma in Personnel Management; an MBA from City University Business School in Business Development − which he studied for part-time whilst on secondment to Bath Enterprise Ltd at Green Park Station in the 1980s; and a Cambridge University Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (CELTA) which he studied for at Bath College. He has also attended a wide range of evening classes etc at Bath University for which he holds a University Certificate.
He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (FCILT), a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
Following a number of holiday jobs with British Rail, in London and Birmingham in the late 1960s, Neil spent 18 months as a Traffic Management Trainee with BR's West of England Division, living in Bristol. Thereafter, he was appointed Assistant Area Manager at Swindon. He subsequently rose through a wide range of posts to reach senior management level in 1990 on appointment as Development Manager and Deputy Head of BR's Management and Training Centre. In 1995 he was appointed as Heritage Officer to the British Railways Board, and in 1998 Secretary of the Railway Heritage Committee - a national statutory body.
Along the way, he has worked for three subsidiary companies of BR - Freightliner, Transmark, and currently BRB (Residuary) Ltd (now a subsidiary of the Department for Transport) - and served as a Visiting Fellow at Salford University, an External Examiner at Middlesex and Kingston Universities, PA to the President of the (former) Chartered Institute of Transport, and recruitment consultant to the Corporation of Lloyd's.
Neil was first elected to the Wanborough Parish Council (Covingham Ward) in 1976, two years later becoming Chairman of the Council. In 1983, he was elected Chairman of the newly-created Covingham Parish Council − the first new parish council in Wiltshire since the inception of the county council in 1889.
In 1982, he was elected for the first time to Thamesdown Borough Council, for the neighbouring St Margaret Ward - serving to 1986. In 1988, he moved to Swindon's Old Town. He represented Lawns Ward between 1995 and 2000, by which time Thamesdown Borough Council had become the unitary Swindon Borough Council (1997). He served as Chairman of the Old Town Festival Committee between 2003 and 2004.
He was a Governor of Ralph Allen School between 2005 and 2009.
Neil has always enjoyed working either on or for parish councils and other community groups to help them achieve their aims. Much has been achieved jointly over the past four years - but there are ever more challenges, and Neil is always keen to tackle them to help improve life for local people.
His particular interests locally are similar to those of his well-known predecessor Gitte Dawson:
- keeping our villages alive - encouraging local shops, pubs, post offices, and other important facilities
- fighting off inappropriate planning
- getting traffic calming and speed limits
- safeguarding and promoting public transport
- promoting good-quality markets
- pressing for sustainable decisions in whatever the Council does.
Contact Neil
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01225 832256
Address: Hillside Cottage, Southstoke Lane, South Stoke, Bath, BA2 7DN.
See Neil's B&NES webpage
How you can help
The Bathavon South Liberal Democrats work for you all year round.
Neil is always busy helping local residents and striving to improve Bathavon South. You can help him keep local residents up to date and aid his election campaign.
If you would like to get involved then please press on the link below to have a look at our campaigning page.
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