Don Briggs on return journey

“We have to return Council to the people,” says, former councillor Don Briggs who is standing again for KCDC.
“We owe it to ourselves and our children to face the truth of just how far we have declined in the name of “development” disguised as progress. Council’s are intended to be a public service, not a private corporation. The future must be for all of us, starting here and now and no longer abandoned to free loading private opportunists.”
Mr Briggs says Council has to urgently address the increasing real needs and concerns of those who have made their homes here, who pay the bills and suffer the rapidly depleting way of life.
“We must bring back proper Town Planning from what has become an open door for major Private Plan Changes to our District Plan. Changes in Zoning, must be brought back to be the proper public process it was always intended to be. We must urgently come to realise that growth and the markets, rely first of all on the well being of the customers.”
Mr Briggs with be standing as a district-wide council candidate.