Campbell is to stand in 2017
Councillor Graeme Campbell has announced that he will stand in 2017 for a third term in the Avondale and Stonehouse ward.
He was formally selected to stand at the Scottish local elections in May next year at the recent Conservative Party Hustings in East Kilbride.
Graeme said:“it has been an honour and a privilege to represent the good people of Avondale, Strathaven and Stonehouse since they elected me in 2007 and again in 2012.
“For the last two terms I have tried to deliver a common sense approach to local government, while focusing on education and roads. If elected again in 2017, I plan to continue focusing on the roads improvement programme which has seen more than £10 million spent so far across Avondale since 2007.”
He added:“people come to me all the time complaining that Stonehouse gets a raw deal from South Lanarkshire Council and I have to agree.
“The challenge remains that for Stonehouse to get a better deal, it needs to expand and to date, I’ve been the only councillor that has supported a controlled but large scale development of Stonehouse.
“If we are to deliver new shops, leisure facilities, the extension of the bypass and even a secondary school which remains my dream for Stonehouse - we have got to allow new money into the town.”
He continued:“politicians will have to unite in their condemnation of the NHS’S failure to sell the land at the old Stonehouse hospital and councillors and the community will have to come together with an acceptance that Stonehouse will need to expand to support the facilities and services the town are demanding.”