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Kingsmead
Your Kingsmead councillors are Andrew Furse and Douglas Nicol. Andy and Douglas work hard for Kingsmead and do their best to keep local residents informed.
Your local MP Don Foster with Cllr Andrew Furse and Campaigner Douglas Nicol
Cllr Andrew Furse
Councillor Andrew Furse
Andrew Furse is one of your Liberal Democrat councillors in Kingsmead.
He was first elected to the Council for Kingsmead in 1994 and was previously Chair of the influential Overview and Scrutiny Panel for Education, Youth, Culture and Leisure. Currently, he is Chairman of the Council's Audit Committee.
He works in Bath as a chartered engineer for a railway safety consultancy. He lives in Kingsmead ward and has two daughters who attend a local secondary school.
Andy has worked on a number of projects in the city including:
- Improvements to school meals
- Setting the agenda for co-educational status at Oldfield school via the secondary school review
- Green spaces strategy: protecting allotments and working towards improvements to Royal Victoria Park
- Improvements to our local environment e.g. Kingsmead Square, public spaces and the River Path.
Andy says "We must protect our green spaces, tackle crime and antisocial behaviour, and ensure schools in the city remain high quality.
"Residents need to be kept informed on major projects like Western Riverside and City Centre developments.
"From listening to many of you on the doorstep, I have a good idea about what the people of Kingsmead ward want from the Council. I hope to continue working to ensure Kingsmead residents get a fair deal"
Contact Andy
Address: 25 Tennyson Road, Bath, BA1 3BG
Tel: 01225 483218
email: [email protected]
See Andy's B&NES webpage
Campaigner Douglas Nicol
Campaigner Douglas Nicol
Douglas Nicol was elected as a Liberal Democrat coucnillor for Kingsmead in 2011.
He loves the City of Bath and as a successful businessman having been in manufacturing as well as an ex-hotelier and restaurateur, gaining 2 AA Rossettes, Douglas understands the need for service and quality. He is competent and efficient and will strive to ensure that the Council provide the service and quality that the people of Kingsmead deserve.
A natural campaigner, Douglas was involved with Green Peace, and worked on the re-fit of the trawler 'Sir William Hardy', re-launched in 1978 as 'Rainbow Warrior', he was involved with the League Against Cruel Sports as well as IFAW campaigning against the culling of the seal pups in Canada.
Douglas' concerns for Kingsmead:
- Anti social behaviour in Kingsmead Square and other hot spots.
- Victoria Bridge, why has it been allowed to deteriorate? He will continue to campaign to have it re-opened.
- Douglas will support residents in their opposition to a new bridge from Norfolk Crescent onto the Western Riverside site, bringing negative impact on the residents quality of life and the green space.
- Residents of Kingsmead should be kept informed of major projects in the city, and as part of this there'll be a Kingsmead blog.
- Douglas will continue to support residents opposition to the BRT.
- Victoria Park and the Botanical Gardens should continue to be nurtured, ensuring enrichment of the people's lives locally.
- Douglas will continue to support the redevelopment of the garage and improved crossing facilities at the top of Marlborough Lane.
He believes 'cities are for people'.
Douglas is married to Sue, whose great grandfather had a shop on Pulteney Bridge, he has four grandchildren and being very keen on sport it is often said that his religion is RC (Rugby and Chelsea FC)!
Contact Douglas
Email: [email protected]
See Douglas' B&NES webpage
How you can help:
The Kingsmead Liberal Democrats work for you all year round.
Andy and Douglas are always busy helping local residents and striving to improve Kingsmead. You can help them keep local residents up to date and aid their election campaigns.
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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