Nelson Hustings 2022

Pompey Politics Podcast

Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris

Politics, News, News Commentary

5.0 • 4 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Nelson Ward Hustings for 2022 Local Elections with - Jason Fazackarley (Lib Dem) Aimee Gwyther (Lab) Spencer Gardner (Con) Duncan Robinson (Grn) 1. Why are you standing in Nelson? 2. What are the key issues facing this ward? 3. With massive demand for housing behind the rising existence of HMOs, are they meeting a clear need for housing where no other affordable alternative exists, or another pressure on local services, parking & the cohesion of neighbourhoods? a. What's your solution? 4. The controversial Tipner West development, (renamed Lennox Point) seems no longer touted as a possible location for 3,500 of the 17,700 homes the council is targeted to find by central government. a. should it be built on? b. If not there, where? 5. The North End shopping area has seen many shops come and go over the last couple of decades. What should be done to revitalise shopping centres like North End for the 21st century? 6. With the cost of living rising sharply what more should the council be doing to support those in most need or who are not “just about managing? 7. The subject of antisocial behaviour comes up regularly, what do you believe is the root cause and what more needs to be done to tackle it? 8. With Nelson right next to the M275 and the international ferry port, what can be done to improve air quality for its residents?

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast. I'm Ian Tini Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury.
0:11.0	Well, Thursday evening, third podcast in five days, Simon, I'm guessing guessing you're going to be asking for overtime if we
0:22.1	uh if we do any more and uh our final husting of the uh 20 22 season um indeed it is
0:28.8	despite our best attempts at trying to schedule more in uh to make it even more of a tighter
0:33.8	squeeze um this is indeed our last hustings of this year. So we have with us the candidates,
0:42.3	so full candidates for Nelson Ward. So we are joined tonight by Jason Fazzacquely from the Liberal
0:49.3	Democrats, Amy Gwether from Labor, Spencer Gardner from the Conservatives and Duncan Robinson from the Greens.
0:55.9	Good evening, candidates.
0:57.1	Good evening.
0:58.9	Any we missed out on?
1:02.9	So, as normal, we sent out invitations to any candidates that we could find contacts for on social media or any other way at all,
1:13.6	and any that are attached to any political parties.
1:17.8	We also reached out to political parties.
1:20.8	So we haven't had any responses from anybody else, but basically the door was open there and also we kind of shouted out
1:29.9	ourselves on social media to say hey we'd like to do these things if you're interested please
1:34.1	give us a shout but luckily we have four of the candidates here this evening ready to
1:41.1	answer our questions so that their voters can hear what they've got to say.
1:53.9	Okay, so those that have been able to talk us through the rules and then we'll die.
1:58.9	We conducted a coin toss before the show went live.
2:03.3	So they will conduct an up to two-minute opening speech at the start of the show.
2:08.5	Then we have some questions to go through that we will then put to each of the candidates in a particular order.
2:20.3	Each of our candidates will have up to two minutes to answer each question,
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