Your Peasedown Councillors are Nathan Hartley and Sarah Bevan. Nathan and Sarah work hard for Peasedown and do their best to keep local residents informed.
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Cllrs Nathan Hartley and Sarah Bevan
Cllr Nathan Hartley
Nathan was born in Peasedown and studied at Bath Spa University. He lives in Peasedown and runs his own business - Hartley Public Relations. Having grown up in Peasedown St John Nathan is a well known member and activist within the community.
Nathan was first elected as a councillor in 2007 and has taken an active part in public life. He is a member of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel for Children's Services and Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Children's Services.
He was runner up Politician of the Year in the Bath Chronicle People of the Year Awards 2008. He has raised over a thousand pound for Peasedown Youth Centre through initiatives such as running the Bath Half Marathon. He also launched the Youth Community Council in 2007 (which won 'Young Volunteer Team of the Year' at the Chairman's Community Awards 2009). Nathan also co-founded and works with residents to organise Peasedown St John's Party in the Park (which won 'Runner-up Community Event of the Year' in the Somerset Guardian's People of the Year Awards 2009).Finally, Nathan has worked with residents and B&NES Council to plant over 100 trees locally.
Tel: 07737 192 156
Email: [email protected]
See Nathan's B&NES webpage
Cllr Sarah Bevan
Sarah was born in London and moved to Peasedown St John in 2000 where she lives with her son, who attends a local school.
Sarah was first elected as councillor for Peasedown St John in 2003 and held various positions of public office before becoming Madam Chairman of Bath and North East Somerset council 2010 - 2011. She was the council's Human Rights Champion, regularly delivering presentations explaining why the Human Rights Act 1998 is important to us today. She still organises the council's annual Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th and visited secondary and primary schools around the authority to give short, illustrated talks for children and young people on their rights and responsibilities.
Sarah has worked hard since 2003 to improve the quality of life for all residents, achieving improvements for a safer, cleaner, greener Peasedown St John.
Recent successes include:
1 The creation of a community orchard as part of the BBC's Tree O'Clock project
2 Achieving a 20 mph speed limit in New Buildings as part of our Twenty is Plenty ongoing campaign
3 Drawing up a more comprehensive rota for street cleansing to include streets hitherto unswept or maintained
4 The installation of two pedestrian refuges and pedestrian crossing over the Peasedown St John bypass where public rights of way were cut in half
5 Creating three parking spaces for residents with a disability along with other road safety measures outside the local nursery school in the Eckweek Gardens/Eckweek Road area
Tel: 01761 420141
Email: [email protected]
See Sarah's B&NES webpage
The Peasedown Liberal Democrats work for you all year round.
Nathan and Sarah are always busy helping local residents and striving to improve Peasedown. 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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