Latest By-Election News
Primary School Teacher Lis Telcs is standing for Labour in the by-election on 23 July. Lis has been out campaigning hard and meeting local residents. Some of our local newsletters are below in pdf format.
SchoolsSee the publications section to view the newsletters we have put out in the ward as part of our effort to keep in touch with you over the years.
Lis stands for Labour as Goldsmid by-election called for 23 July
A by-election is due to take place on 23 July resignation of the inactive Tory Councillor in Goldsmid Ward.
Labour and Co-operative candidate Lis Telcs is hoping to meet as many local residents as possible in the coming weeks. She has been working hard alongside Melanie Davis for over a year on campaigns like '20 is Plenty'.
No doubt people will be flooded by leaflets from all sides. We hope you support us based on our strong local record in the Goldsmid community over many years (see this website!).
Lis
says, “I have been working alongside the hard working community
Councillor Melanie Davis since last June and have met many people in
the ward on the doorstep and at various events. I have petitioned people
in the Highdown area for our “20 is plenty” campaign, spoken
to people about the new communal bins and have attended family events
such as street parties.”
I will be able to give the time and commitment to working for the people of Goldsmid ward."
Elisabeth Telcs is the Labour and Co-operative candidate for Goldsmid ward. She was selected by local Party members in June 2008 when it became clear one of the Conservative councillors was not doing his job and had moved out of the city.
Elisabeth is 43 and has been a primary school teacher in Hove, Shoreham and Worthing for almost 20 years.
Email lis@goldsmid.com.
Or find her campaign page on 
Argus Coverage: Article and Letter.
Newsletter: It was last year that we brought Cllr Lainchbury's absenteeism to the attention of local residents through our regular Ward Newsletter.
Your Goldsmid Team
Your Labour and Co-operative Team for Goldsmid Ward is Lis Telcs and Councillor Melanie Davis. To find out how to contact them see our Contacts page.
Latest Community News
See the publications section to view the newsletters we have put out in the ward as part of our effort to keep in touch with you.
Mobile Surgeries: We come to you!
Labour
Goldsmid Councillor surgeries are mobile. On the first Saturday of every
month Cllr Melanie Davis will leaflet a small area of roads in advance
with my details before calling on residents to talk to them to discuss
the local issues that concern them. Full details of
Surgeries are here. All are welcome. The two Conservative councillors
do not hold surgeries.
Gallery
A Goldsmid Web Gallery showing images from around Goldsmid Ward is on the site. Please take a look!
***Traffic and Transport***
Traffic calming and safety initiatives for pedestrians are one of Labour's top priorities for Goldsmid Ward, focussing on the area near Seven Dials and the Clarendon community.
20 is Plenty Campaign for roads west of the Dials.
BHASVIC road safety improvements will be built sooner than expected after Goldsmid Labour Councillor action.
New Road in Brighton opened in summer 2007 after environmental improvements. Already the vision of a pedestrian-friendly street in the middle of Brighton's cultural quarter has been realised. It's a great place for spending time, with lots of seating, eating and drinking.
Labour delivered a new pedestrian crossing on Old Shoreham Road. Your local councillors supported the campaign by residents for the crossing. We first petitioned for it back in the 2003 local elections.
Lis's Campaign Trail Photos
Meeting parents at Somerhill School.
With Local Residents in Goldsmid Ward.
With Councillor Melanie Davis at Hove Station.
St. Ann's Well Festival Photos
The May festival at St. Ann's Well Gardens was a huge success with over 2,000 people attending. Photos are now on this site here and also on the Friends' website here.
Goldsmid waste service descends into crisis
This was the ugly sight confronting Goldsmid Councillor Melanie Davis and Lis Telcs when they were meeting voters in Livingstone Road. The City's waste and recycling service is in crisis with rubbish and uncollected recycling throughout Goldsmid Ward. These photos were taken when Councillor Davis was recently in Livingstone Road and similar scenes were found in Shirley Street and Goldstone Road. Click this link to seem more photos and details of Melanie's letter to the Council calling for action . The rubbish was cleared after our action.
Welcome: goldsmid.com
goldsmid.com is a website by the Labour Party in Hove focusing on the Goldsmid community. Please give us feedback via info@goldsmid.com.
Labour's action team is regularly out and about in the ward. You may see our calling card if you're out.
***Waste and Recycling***
Improving recycling and reducing waste are among Labour Councillor Melanie Davis' priorities in Goldsmid Ward and in the City as a whole.
Recycling goes weekly in parts of Goldsmid Ward. Labour Councillor Melanie Davis is pictured recycling the Argus left. Thousands of homes in the City are now being covered.
Recycling
campaign: we are campaigning for doorstep recycling in the
'hard to reach' parts of Hove - and there's good news. Melanie Davis has
also written an article for the site about getting
into the recycling habit.
Fighting for new school places in Hove
Labour Councillor Melanie Davis and Lis Telcs have called on the City Council to build a new school in Hove. Click here for the full story. Also see our schools leaflet from Lis Telcs here.
Join our '20 is Plenty' campaign for safer streets in Highdown area
Look
out for a petition you can sign on a campaign for a 20mph speed limit
in our local streets. Councillor Melanie Davis and Lis Telcs are campaigning
for a legally-enforceable 20mph limit for residential streets. Some new
20mph signs are already up as a result.
To view the full article and download a petition go here.
Governors and Councillors challenge the City Council over handling of
school expansion
(May 09)
The Tory Council has been challenged by the local ward Councillor and Chair of Governors of Somerhill Junior School, over the handling of the proposed expansion of Davigdor and Somerhill Schools.
Full article and Cllr Davis' letter to Council
here.
St. Ann's Well Friends
Councillor Melanie Davis is chair of the Friends of St. Ann's Well Gardens. For the latest see their website at stannswellgardens.co.uk.
***Schools***
Congratulations to Somerhill Junior School which was rated a good school with outstanding features in the latest OfSTED report. Inspectors said that all 27 aspects of care and education were good or better. And the arts, PE and modern languages were just some of the subjects considered outstanding. Congratulations to all staff, parents and children.
Hove's secondary school catchment area came into force in 2008. Goldsmid parents campaigned for the a fairer, catchment-based system. Labour ward councillors consistently supported a fairer deal for local families.
***Crime***
Latest crime figures locally and nationally are encouraging but we want to maintain momentum with the two Goldsmid Local Action Teams and other local initiatives.
Clarendon Local Action Team is celebrating three years of achievements in tackling vandalism and anti-social behaviour, and improving the local environment. Now we are campaigning for the approach to be extended across the whole of Goldsmid.
See the difference the Action Team has made in Ethel Street and Conway Street, where trees have replaced abandoned cars and dumped rubbish.
***Environment***
In Goldsmid Labour campaigned successfully for doorstep recycling and supporting green initiatives.
Save the Trees: Labour Goldsmid Councillors brought Network Rail's destruction of trees in Goldsmid to the attention of Environment Committee. Residents are continuing their campaign for a coppicing alternative.
BHASVIC Field: see the latest on the hockey plans.
Green travel plans for Hove residents, including in Goldsmid Ward, will encourage more sustainable ways of getting about and are coming down your street soon.
A Seafront-to-the-Downs cycle route is being implemented with part of the route running through the ward. Since this article was written much of the route, initiated by the former Labour-run Council, is now in place, running up the Drive from the seafront.
Car clubs encourage responsible car use in the City, Labour wants them to expand into Hove.
Simon Burgess for Brighton Kemptown
Simon Burgess is Labour's Candidate for Brighton Kemptown. You can find Simon on the web here. Or follow Simon on Facebook and his 'tweets' on Twitter (simon4kemptown).
Nancy Platts for Brighton Pavilion
Read about Labour's Parliamentary Candidate for Brighton Pavilion here: www.nancyplatts.com
Celia Barlow for Hove
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