Bicester has been divided into four electoral areas representing a slight change from past elections.  Each electoral ward will elect THREE each councillors from the candidates listed below.  If you are unsure which ward you live in, there are six maps below.  Unhelpfully a single, easy to understand map has not been provided by Cherwell District Council.  Click on each area to see the map:

• Bicester East
• Bicester North & Caversfield
• Bicester South & Ambrosden
• Bicester West
• Launton & Otmoor
• Fringford & The Heyfords

Below are listed each of the candidates, by party.  The names appear in alphabetical order of surname based on Cherwell District Council's information.  Candidates who are currently serving as Cherwell District Councillors are highlighted in bold.  Candidates who are serving as councillors on other councils such as Bicester Town or Oxfordshire County have a * after their name.

We have contacted all parties including independents to ask for information about their manifestos and their candidates.  We are very sad to say that only two parties replied, The Green Party and The Labour Party.

BicesterTAG is 100% independent as you are aware and these are LOCAL elections. So we think it is slightly unfair to say that Party A is better than Party B because by and large, the agendas of national parties have no relevance at the local level.

Here we are only concerned about local issues. Health Service privatisation, EU referendums and all that have no connection to our lives and the life of our town.

We say: vote for an individual, not a party. Vote for a person you think will represent your voice in the chamber at Cherwell District Council. Someone who 'gets' the issues, lives the problems and understands the impact. More importantly, not someone who is willing to idly sit by, but someone who is willing to stand up and be a force for positive change. In short:

Someone worthy to be our civic leader!

There are many important issues at this election for example the thousands of square metres of speculative warehousing Cherwell District Council are dropping on us but the issues that are of prime importance to us are;

• Road Infrastructure to support Bicester's growth
• Traffic congestion reduction
• Solving of the Air Pollution problem

If you are interested in the other more wideranging issues facing Bicester, please visit our friends websites at;

• Save Bicester - www.savebicester.co.uk
• Need Not Greed - www.neednotgreedoxon.org.uk

Many of our existing councillors have not engaged with BicesterTAG on the issues we campaign on such as lack of infrastructure, congestion and now more importantly health damaging air pollution.  We therefore believe that it is time they stood down and were replaced by individuals who are willing to take a more active role in local decisions and stand up and be counted to stop poor decisions being made.

Unfortunately most of our current councillors belong to a single political party, so it may appear that BicesterTAG is biased against that party.  We are not.  We are against apathy and lethargy.  Bicester and district needs local politicians who are willing to speak up and not simply tow the party line to help them climb the greasy pole.  Regardless of whoever wins, you can guarantee that we will continue to robustly campaign on our issues BUT please suspend your own political bias and vote for individuals who will truly lead us!

NOTE:  For current county councillors, we have included details of their attendance however beware when interrupting them.  Some councillors may have 100% but only attended two meetings whereas others have 83% but may have attended 14 meetings.  The figures are only for the last period: 3 Nov 15 - 27 Apr 16 so may not be representative.

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