by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | Mar 1, 2020 | Environment, Mary Sherwood, News, Traffic, What We Care About
“I’d love to see Gwydr Square in Uplands (where the Uplands Market takes place) turned into a pedestrian, no-traffic zone”, said an email I received from a resident in February this year, who had originally contacted me about general traffic concerns. If I had £1 for...
by Mary Sherwood & Nick Davies | May 27, 2019 | News, Personal Blogs
Councillors are always busy but 20th – 25th May 2019 was full of such interesting meetings and events I thought I’d share it as an example of the range of things we do int he process of representing residents and fulfilling the manifesto on which we were...
by Nick Davies | Sep 18, 2017 | HMOs, Nick Davies, Personal Blogs
Over many years, the number of Houses in Multiple Occupation in Uplands and Brynmill has grown. HMO over-density means that we have ‘ghost streets’ and poorly managed, shabby looking HMOs, with refuse piling up outside, are bad for everyone’s quality of life, whether...
by uplandslabour | Sep 18, 2017 | Mary Sherwood, Personal Blogs, What We Care About
The Well-Being of Future Generations Act: Wales’s World-Leading Sustainability Legislation As joint Cabinet Member for Future Generations, Mary has responsibility for equalities, biodiversity, community engagement and other areas associated with this Act. The...
by uplandslabour | Sep 18, 2017 | Equality & Human Rights, Mary Sherwood, Personal Blogs, What We Care About
Research undertaken at different points in history has demonstrated that in the UK, poverty is not caused by fecklessness or poor housekeeping but policy failure. Benefit recipients have always faced abject poverty, humiliation and judgement as wealth is deliberately...
by uplandslabour | Sep 18, 2017 | Environment, Mary Sherwood, Personal Blogs, What We Care About
Many years I go I acquired a hilarious Excel spreadsheet which tells you your “Ideal Job” when you type in your name. Playing around with middle names and initials gets different results – my friend Roz Ward, “Office Numpty”, aggrandised herself to Rosalind...