Newcastle City Council elections 2024

Milton Caine, a married wheelchair accessible taxi driver, has nominated as an Independent candidate for the Lord Mayor of Newcastle because of many concerns that are not being addressed by the council under the present leadership:

• Currently pious platitudes made about affordable housing without targeting the needs of the vulnerable.
• A bike and walking friendly city creates extra hazards for the walking impaired.
• The development of playing fields into housing estates is counter
• productive and unwise.
• The continual removal of parking in the CBD is alarming to many in the community
• The increase of vacant commercial properties in the CBD is evidence of a wrong direction
• The failure to maintain the outer suburbs roads from cracking up and potholes
• The failure of maintaining the parks, gardens, pools and public spaces
• The failure to supply adequate road space to new developments
• The failure to adequately address the flooding at Wallsend
• The failure to seriously address the erosion of the shore line of Stockton
• The huge rate increases that have been imposed in recent years
• The failure to deliver sufficient community confidence in the General Manager due to allegations of the “letters gate” issue.

…………..and so much more!

See:  https://christiansforcommunity.com.au/state-policies/housing/affordable-housing/

Milton Caine, Lord Mayor independent candidate and number 2 candidate in ward 3, is speaking with Timothy Boyce, lead independent candidate in ward 4 concerning the development at Minmi. Both our concerns are the manner of the subdivision where all the vegetation is removed and the entire top soil is completely disturbed. As well the road access to this development already sufers from too much peak hour traffic and yet no plans to expand the road into a two lane each way roadway. We both express that the council must do a far better job in how we do subdivisions in the future.

https://rumble.com/v56za4t-milton-and-timothy-at-the-minmi-new-subdivision.html

Some of the issues we pledge to sort out!

• Back to bacis looking after roads, parks, footpaths and garbage
• Working through planning to get it right the first time – do it right once
• Working on a target of 50% of a single pension as first our aim on affordable housing (see the link above) with council,state and federal governments being serious to deliver housing to the vulnerable
• Parking increases so as to assist persons with disablities to access the city in their wheelchairs and walkers in a safe manner near to the place they must visit
• Parking increases in Newcastle CBD so businesses can survive
• Work with residents to find a long-term solutions for Stockton erosion
• Work with businesses harmed by Newcastle renewal program
• Urgently widen Minmi Road and and Longworth Avenue – long overdue
• Creating access roads to subdivisions sufficient for future traffic flow
• Work to find real solutions to better manage flooding in Wallsend
• Better budget management to stop rate rises and other charges
• Protect our parks and playing fields from developers