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Pauline Jorgensen

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Wokingham Borough Councillor for Hillside
Leader of Wokingham Borough Conservatives
Deputy Chairman Political of the Association

Supporting you through COVID
This year has been a difficult one for everyone and your Conservative-led Borough Council has worked hard to support residents. Providing discretionary COVID grants to support our businesses, one of the first councils to create COVID testing sites, setting up help hubs, delivering food parcels to shielding residents, providing PPE to care homes and, crucially protecting our elderly residents by stopping transfer from hospital to care homes without a negative COVID test.

Strong financial management
As the lowest funded Unitary authority in the country, but one of the top 20 councils for financial stability, our prudent financial management, low level of debt of £83m (confirmed by auditors) and strong asset base has enabled us to enhance services whilst maintaining strong reserves. We have used borrowings, for example, to build new council/affordable homes this has helped residents secure homes whilst generating income after borrowing costs to plough back into services.

Thinking outside the box
Whilst other councils were cutting stopping road repairs. I decided that the lack of traffic was an ideal opportunity to get ahead and accelerated our repairs plan. This reduced our costs, improved our roads and also provided local employment. I have progressed imaginative schemes to reduce congestion and increase sustainable transport, building new roads, cycleways and paths, joining up missing links and adopting the latest cycling standards so that, when our roads return to normal, people will have more alternatives available to them. We have also increased our library service and built a fantastic new leisure centre in Bulmershe.

Passionate about our environment
I have successfully lobbied my Conservative colleagues for the wooded area (DD) near Chalfont Park to be protected. Conservatives introduced food waste recycling ahead of the other RE3 councils and increased the variety of plastics recycled. This, with your help, has massively increased recycling in the Borough. I am firmly committed to weekly waste collection, again bucking the trend in other councils to bi or tri-weekly collections, as I believe that, particularly in the summer, it’s much better for people not to have waste hanging around in their houses.

I have worked hard for Hillside and Earley
I post regular news articles all year and often several times a day on social media to keep you informed. As Exec member for Highways and Transport I have started to make a real difference to the quality of our roads.

There is more to do and I need your support to continue this work.
In my 12 plus years as your Borough Councillor I have enjoyed talking to many people on our weekly street surgeries and helped thousands of people who email, tag and message me all the time.

This is hard work but rewarding and it’s a privilege to represent you and to be able to make a difference.

All the best

Pauline Jorgensen

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Election Manifesto 2021

We exist to serve you

Our goal is to provide to you the best quality services and the best value for money we can.

It is your taxes the council spends after all. You deserve to know that they are being spent wisely and prudently wherever it is required on your behalf.

News

Conservative Group Leader's speech at the Wokingham Council Annual Meeting

Friday, 20 May, 2022

The speech Cllr Pauline Jorgensen made as leader of the opposition Conservative group last night:

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Repairing the roads

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Councillor Pauline Jorgensen, executive member for highways and transport, said: “We know that moving around the borough easily and having good quality roads are important to our residents.

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Record programme for highways and transport in this year's budget

Thursday, 17 February, 2022

Speech by Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, Executive Member for Highways and Transport, for the Budget:

I am pleased to, yet again, be able to announce a record programme for highways and transport in this year’s MTFP.

Changes to tackle anti-social behaviour at car parks

Friday, 21 January, 2022

Lack of time at last night's Wokingham Borough Council meeting prevented Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, Executive Member for Highways and Transport from giving this speech to keep residents informed of her work

COUNCIL CONSULTS ON CHANGES TO CAR PARKS TO TACKLE ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

Tuesday, 21 September, 2021

Wokingham Borough Council is seeking to change the way it runs its car parks to make it easier to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) in them.

Resident, Cllr on bike and MP

John Redwood MP hails congestion busting success in Winnersh

Friday, 3 September, 2021

John Redwood MP joined up with Councillor Pauline Jorgensen, Executive member for Highways, to see the new Winnersh relief road and the task ahead to improve flows across the Winnersh crossroads junction. Local resident Stuart Sharp also joined the group.

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Award nominated infrastructure - reducing congestion for our communities

Tuesday, 31 August, 2021

“The new roads being constructed in our borough are providing vital infrastructure to support our communities. We are committed to reducing congestion to help our residents travel around the borough and these new roads help us to do this," says Cllr Pauline Jorgensen, executive member for highway

Park and ride expansion at Winnersh Triangle is under way

Friday, 6 August, 2021

Pauline Jorgensen, Conservative Councillor for Hillside and the executive member for highways and transport, says “Our two new park and ride projects will allow residents even more transport options when travelling around the borough.

Pauline with Conservative campaigners pre covid

Our finances are in strong shape

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

This financial year is forecast to end with an underspend, even after the extra money we have spent helping residents during the pandemic, and the revenue we have lost from being forced to shut down non-essential services such as our leisure centres. 

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£6 million road improvements for 2020-21 complete

Tuesday, 13 April, 2021

Pauline Jorgensen - Conservative-led Wokingham Borough Council's Exec member for Highways - is delighted to share the news that our annual road maintenance programme for 2020-21 is now complete, with more than £6million invested across the area.

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Cllr Pauline Jorgensen
Planters Lodge
Cutbush Lane
Earley
RG6 4UU
0118 986 8732
07557300712
pauline.jorgensen@btinternet.com

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