AIMS OF THE PAB GROUP
The objective of the PAB Group is to promote and protect the interests of the Council taxpayers by the following means:-
- To elect members to Parish, Borough and County Councils
- To seek by legitimate means the elimination of excessive bureaucracy in local government.
- To monitor the activities in all Councils to ensure that the local residents’ interests are best served.
- To discourage the activities of party politics in local government.
- To encourage more open government by seeking to reduce the amount of business behind closed doors, which is often to the exclusion of the Press and the general public?
- To put people first at all times.
THE PRINCIPLE POLICIES OF THE PAB GROUP ARE:-
- To keep party political issues out of local government.
- To protect the Green Belt around the town and the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
- To support at all times the policies contained in the Borough Local Plan and supportive documents.
- To promote sensible developments that provides houses, employment and services for local people while retaining the proud and beautiful architectural heritage of Cheltenham.
- To preserve the environment and all the integral parts of its complex structure.
- To support the setting of realistic budgets that provides the necessary services for the people. Budgets should be set with local taxpayers in mind and not political aims.