But many councillors, including Ms Adams, said it has been too difficult to persuade council officials to go ahead with schemes they have suggested.
Labour group leader Sarah Adams had to return almost £56,000 in road improvement money
- Credit: Sarah Lucy Brown You ask your voters what they want and then you have to go to Suffolk Highways, where officials tell you why it can t be done, she said. Then you have to negotiate with them, eventually get a scheme together and then take it to Kier, where you have to go through the whole process again. At any point, it can fall apart.
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The manifesto said: The Green Party believes that local authorities and communities are far better at dealing with health and other crises than national governments and their favoured contractors. A Green administration would seek approval for major projects and policies from the director of public health and encourage the department to play a more independent and proactive role than it currently does, by seeking its advice on how policy changes might improve public health. After the pandemic, a Green administration would also prioritise mental health, particularly for children in schools, with a review of what measures would improve child mental health and support for open-air schooling such as that provided by forest schools.