Homes
For Wales: Build quality new homes that align with local character, beauty and practicality. Grow and support communities, ensuring the right housing is in the right place with transport links and community facilities. Regenerate our town centres with social and affordable homes above commercial premises.
For Carmarthenshire: Follow the ‘Create Streets’ principles and adopt design codes for new-build homes that embrace traditional style that fit into and complement local communities, using local materials.
Business and Industry
For Wales: Invest local. Make local. Buy local.
Business rates are set by Welsh Government, but the system isn’t working. It penalises businesses who have bricks and mortar premises. We need a new system that supports businesses to grow.
For Carmarthenshire: Too many shops in our market towns have been turned into homes, leaving few affordable premises on high streets for local businesses to start or grow. Empty shops are left to rot by absentee landlords who charge sky-high rents.
Towns and Cities
For Wales: We need to regenerate our brown field sites – previously used land with new homes and employment. We need to stop building on low lying, flood-prone land and think about how new development affects local infrastructure before it is built.
For Carmarthenshire: Placemaking along with regional and local masterplans can ensure a more coherent and integrated communities that are allowed to grow sustainably. Llanelli desperately needs a town centre plan. One that reintroduces character that’s been lost, but fits modern requirements. The town centre should be a low-crime environment that supports small and medium sized independent businesses. Llanelli Market needs to remain attached to the retail core
Rural Communities
For Wales: We need to better support the volunteers and groups of people who keep our community services and facilities running. The first aiders, the community hall trustees, the knitting groups, the reading groups – there needs to be a framework supporting the facilities they use to ensure these vital community spaces are affordable and available. We need to stop closing small, community schools which are a vital part of Welsh culture.
For Carmarthenshire: We need to listen to people who live and work in our rural communities rather than dictating without real consultation.
