Chairman of the Association's Ashdown Forest Branch - Helen joined the Conservative party as a Young Conservative in Sheffield in 1974 and has campaigned at every general election since.
Helen is pleased to be standing for election in May as the Conservative councillor for Maresfield Ward.
When visiting many of you during the by-election campaign in September, many of you raised the same local issues with me.
They are:
1. Road safety and speeding issues in Nutley and Maresfield
2. Poor mobile phone reception in Nutley and Fairwarp
3. Planning and the creeping urbanization of our area.
If elected in May, I will do my utmost to address these issues including, at the very least:
• Installation of a road-safety mirror at the junction of Nursery Lane, Nutley with the A22
• Measures to enforce speed restrictions on the Straight Half Mile in Maresfield, and between Nutley and the Lampool roundabout. S
- Seek a suitable site (or sites) for a new booster mast, or masts, in the ward.
I welcome the Government’s proposed changes to housing policy: to end top-down housing targets and to reduce new housing numbers in Wealden, and leave more decisions to be made locally.
ABOUT HELEN
Helen and her husband, Roy Galley, a former Member of Parliament for Halifax and currently a District and County Councillor, have lived in Wealden for 19 years. They have two married children and one grandson (soon to be two) who she hopes to get out campaigning soon.
Helen has chaired the Danehill, Chelwood Gate and Nutley branch for the last three-and-a-half years and, during that time, has helped build the branch from a low ebb to one of the more successful branches in the Association. She feels strongly that we must try to recruit some young members but, at the very least, must try to get young people engaged with politics. Helen sees the need to fight the UKIP threat but not by negative campaigning but by persuading people that Conservative policies are the right ones.
Helen is a practising barrister specialising in property, probate and trusts matters.
