Bayswater Matters

Waste collections will continue as normal in Bayswater and across Westminster over the late May bank holiday, with no changes to your schedule. Check your collection day here: westm.news/collection

Here in Bayswater and across Westminster, we're looking forward to tonight's full council, where the new Lord Mayor of Westminster will be announced, where Cllr Paul Swaddle will be elected Leader of the Council, and the new Conservative leadership team confirmed.

Watch this update from Paul westm.news/0f68d6

🗳️ Today is your chance for change in Bayswater and across Westminster.

✅ Vote for Christabel, Emily, and Mark, your three local Conservative candidates for Safe Streets, a Clean City and Value for Money.

🔷 Only the Conservatives can beat Labour in Westminster. A vote for any other party is a vote for four more years of Labour’s managed decline.

⏰ If you have not voted yet, there is still time. Remember to bring photo ID.

💙 Vote Conservative today.

👉 Find your polling station here: https://wheredoivote.co.uk

🗳️ This Thursday is your chance for change in Bayswater and across Westminster.

💙 We have listened and have a plan: Safe Streets, a Clean City and Real Action from day one.

🥀 Labour's record of decline: crime up, streets dirtier, £27 million wasted, council tax projected to soar.

🫵 In 2022, we lost Westminster by fewer than 100 votes. Every single vote counts this Thursday.

💪 Only Conservatives can beat Labour in Westminster. A vote for anyone else lets Labour back in.

📍 Polls open 7am to 10pm this Thursday 7 May.

🔷 Make your vote count. Vote Christabel, Emily, and Mark.

👨‍⚖️ Here in Bayswater and across Westminster, the verdict on four years of Westminster Labour is clear: managed decline, higher crime and millions wasted.

❌ Crime is up, streets are dirtier, £27 million wasted, council tax set to soar by 75% and Oxford Street surrendered to Sadiq Khan.

🥀 Keir Starmer. Sadiq Khan. Westminster Labour. Same Old Labour failure at every level.

💙 Westminster Conservatives have a plan to deliver for local people.

✅ Safe streets with serious action on crime. A clean city to reverse four years of decline. And value for money so every pound counts.

🔷 On 7 May, deliver your verdict. Vote Conservative.

YOUR CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES BATTLING LOCAL CRIME FOR YOU

Since we began as your candidates last October, Emily Sheffield, Christabel Flight, and Mark Tozer have been on the doorstep daily. The message is clear: rising crime and the mismanagement of social housing are your biggest frustrations.

Along with deeply concerned residents we took direct action against a basement flat on Chepstow Road that had been overrun by drug users and dealers. For two years no authority involved had taken action. As the former Editor of the Evening Standard, Emily spent many hours holding Notting Hill Genesis, Riverside Housing Association, and Westminster Council to account, plus reporting what we saw to 101 and then relentlessly following u with the local community officers. Residents also took action. Riverside and Genesis denied they knew of any bad behaviour there, despite clear evidence the door had been bashed in before. Charing Cross Police Station had clearly not passed all the 101 calls to the Bayswater community police who when confronted by residents said they had not been updated at all. Your three Labour councillors also appear to have done next to nothing.

Despite reporting evidence to the Met, the Council remained silent when we contacted them. However, everyone's persistence paid off: two arrests were made, and renovation scaffolding finally went up in February after Emily and others continued to hold NHG to account to fulfill their legal duties for building repair. This flat must be a home for the vulnerable, not a base for illegal activity. if you see anything concerning, contact [email protected] quoting 041903310 and copying in your PCSO yavar.kiyani@ met.police.uk to report any further concerning activity.

We will continue to monitor all Notting Hill Genesis Housing problems in the area, so please contact us on [email protected]