Leytonstone Ward - Your candidates for the council elections on May 6th

9.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Mon 12th Apr 2010

The Leytonstone team - Tony Ashworth, Mahmood Fiaz and John Howard

On Thursday 6 May 2010 local elections will be held to elect three councillors to serve on Waltham Forest Council for Leytonstone Ward. (The General Election to be held on the same day). The Focus Team for Leytonstone Ward will be putting up three Liberal Democrat candidates Anthony (Tony) Ashworth, Mahmood Fiaz and John Howard.

Anthony (Tony) Ashworth first campaigned for the Liberal Party in the 1964 General Election in his home town in Derbyshire; he moved to Leytonstone in 1975. His work often took him overseas but, now retired, he has resumed campaigning and is interested in ensuring that Waltham Forest makes the most of the 2012 Olympic legacy, as Manchester did following the Commonwealth Games.His other main concern is to ensure that the borough takes full advantage of the opening of transport links to Europe via Stratford International to attract investment into our area capitalising on the high speed links.

Mahmood Faiz, married with three grown-up children lives in Leytonstone. He is a director of a local estate agents and is therefore very concerned about the need for better housing. Mahmood is interested in education standards as governor at Davies Primary School. His other concerns are for clean, safe streets and good health care.

John Howard is a lifelong Leytonstone resident and was educated at local schools, following which he worked for 30 years in the head office of a major travel company. He has been campaigning in Leytonstone since 1992, and has edited the FOCUS Newsletter for many years, taking up residents' concerns and keeping people informed. John served as a governor at Newport Primary School for 12 years, and has developed a keen interest in education.He is seriously concerned about the continued decline of our once thriving shopping centre, blighted for years by uncertainty over the planned route for the Link Road, and now enduring further threats from the ill-considered one-way traffic system - and the possibility of reduction in public car parking provision