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Coventry Conservatives are celebrating after holding onto Wainbody Ward with an increased majority. The result means that Conservative candidate Mattie Heaven will join Cllr John Blundell and Cllr Tim Sawdon, who also represent Wainbody Ward, at the Council House.

Coventry Conservatives have selected Mattie Heaven as their candidate at a forthcoming by-election in Wainbody ward. The date of the poll is yet to be announced. It follows the death of former Lord Mayor, Gary Crookes, who had represented the ward since 1995.

Conservatives have set out their five-year vision for Coventry ahead of this year’s local elections on Thursday 2nd May. In the document they promise to prioritise job creation, improve transport links, support libraries and clean the city up.

Councillors will meet next week to consider calls for an independent investigation into bullying at Coventry City Council. It follows the release of a survey by a trades union which found that 85% of respondents felt they had been bullied at some point.

Former greenbelt land at Eastern Green in Coventry could end up with almost an extra thousand houses on top of what had previously been agreed. That’s almost 50% more than the 2,250 agreed in the Local Plan.

As an opposition in Coventry Council we have always worked for transparency and Bi partisan working. 

Under the current leadership from Cllr George Duggins this has been almost impossible. 

The news today is very shocking and something we will be pushing for answers.

Conservative Councillors in Coventry are calling upon the Council to review maintenance contracts levied upon new build homeowners across the city. Councillor Peter Male (Woodlands Ward) and Councillor Marcus Lapsa (Westwood Ward) have submitted a motion to the forthcoming Full Council meeting.

Coventry Conservatives have welcomed the decision of Coventry City Council to grant an application for a new private hire operator in the city, following months of procrastination by the Labour controlled Council. 

Cllr Tim Mayer has welcomed yesterday’s announcement that funding for the police system will increase by up to £970 million next year, the biggest increase since 2010. Police funding in West Midlands could increase by up to 6.4% in 2019-20 as a result of these changes.

New figures show that the West Midlands exported 33,843 million worth of goods and services in the year to September 2018. This is an increase of 3.2 from the year before.