Councillor Catherine Piddington

Participation at Council Meetings and Panels

• Council Meetings
• Overview Forum
• Cabinet Meetings
• Board Meetings
• Audit Review Meetings
• Enforcement Panel

Participation at District Assemblies

Fully involved with issues regarding Ashton-under-Lyne.

Participation on Outside Bodies and Partnerships

• Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
• Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority Asset Management group

Constituency Work

• Members' Advice Surgeries
• Regular walkabouts within Ward with Officers, highlighting residents concerns and issues
• Environmental issues
• Public meetings including planning issues
• Tenants and Residents Meetings
• Home visits
• Supported grants to community/sporting clubs/groups
• Supported residents with improvement areas
• Homewatch meetings
• Residents supported with regard to improvement of the areas
• Police and Communities Together (PACT)
• Liaison with other agencies to deliver improvements

Other Key Tasks Undertaken

Represented council at:

• Environmental Health Congress
• Institute of Waste Management

Members' Advice Surgeries

Two surgeries per month held at two different venues of which I attend.

Training and Development

Training is undertaken regularly throughout the year in both my capacity as a Executive Member and as a local councillor.

Achievements during the Year

Representing residents regarding their concerns:

• Housing
• Traffic issues
• Improved lighting
• Gating
• Street and road repairs
• Fly Tipping
• Recycling 
• Under age sales enforcement 
• Youth provision 
• Garden waste/ brown bins/ recycling 
• Maintaining Waterloo war memorial and supporting other environmental schemes 
• Hanging baskets throughout the Ward 
• Successful pilot of fortnightly refuse collections in Stalybridge 
• Visiting local primary schools and supporting project initiatives 
• Increasing recycling rates
• Environmental improvement in all of the Borough’s cemeteries