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Peter Black and South Wales West Liberal DemocratsRepresenting Aberavon, Bridgend, Gower, Neath, Ogmore, Port Talbot, and Swansea |
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Leader's tour visits Swansea and Bridgend
April 2, 2007 12:00 AM
Welsh Liberal Democrat Assembly Leader Mike German will visit Swansea and Bridgend today (Tuseday) with Federal Party President Simon Hughes MP and local Assembly Member Peter Black, to see Swansea redevelopment project plans and a pioneering Bridgend youth project.
Mr German said: "Swansea City Council have ambitious proposals for the city centre, with proposals for a Swansea Metro connecting the Mumbles, more community housing and a revitalised Waterfront.
Swansea Council's ambitious regeneration plans are matched by a commitment to greener action. Earlier this year, I visited the Council's composting plant, which can turn up to 7,000 tonnes of waste a year into compost. This shows how Welsh Liberal Democrat Councils are about greener actions, not just greener words."
Simon Hughes said:"Swansea Council are investing heavily in an ambitious, green future for residents and I'm looking foward to seeing the plans for myself. I'm also looking forward to visiting a real success story for young people, KPC Youth, a safe environment for teenagers to meet up in the area."
Peter Black said: "The KPC youth centre has 750 eighteen to twenty five year olds on its books from Pyle, Cornelly, Kenfig Hill and Cefn Cribwr. Since it opened, there has been a drop in crime in those communities.
"The big problem with the centre has been the lack of core funding. The Council cannot afford to pay their running costs and there is no statutory duty on them to provide these sort of facilities. I have been arguing for years in the Assembly that this should be corrected and I am pleased to say that the Welsh Liberal Manifesto will propose this.
"Everywhere I go I tell people about this centre as an example of good practice. We need more of them."
Notes/Nodiadau:
The schedule is as follows:
11;30 Meeting with student religious leaders at Swansea University mosque, on the University Campus
Meeting outside Fulton House
Peter Black (South Wales West), Simon Hughes, Nick Tregonning (Gower), Peter May (Swansea West) to attend
1245-1330 Walk around Swansea City centre.
Meet National Maritime Museum Car park.
Mike German, Simon Hughes, Peter Black, Peter May, Helen Ceri Clarke (Swansea East) and Nick Tregoning
1400-1500 KPC Youth
Mike German, Simon Hughes, Peter Black, Paul Warren (Bridgend)
KPC (Kenfig Hill, Pyle & Cornelly) Youth offers a safe & fun environment where youth people WANT to go, to keep them off the streets, away from the potential dangers of boredom, away from drug/alcohol misuse, youth annoyance/crime and ASBOs.
17: 15 onwards Coity Ward, Bridgend and Maesteg West Peter Black, Simon Hughes and Jackie Radford (South Wales West) to attend
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