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David Elderton has been a Councillor since 2000. Following boundary changes, he now represents West Kirby and Thurstaston Ward.

He is Chairman of the Finance and Corporate Management Committee – that monitors all income and expenditure relating to Council activities.

David is also Conservative Spokesperson on the Planning Committee and active in ensuring proper control of development. This role includes pursuing conservation status for many areas of the borough and
successfully defending appeals against refusal of inappropriate development - with the overall objective of ensuring that Wirral remains an attractive place for us all to live and work.

As member of the Regeneration committee, David is always on the look out for grant aid and funding packages to initiate and allow improvements to be made to Wirral as a whole.

On a more practical side he has been responsible for bringing local agencies together to eliminate long-standing and persistent flooding problems in many areas of West Kirby and Thurstaston Ward. He is very active in seeking to maintain and improve the street scene by initiating highway and pavements maintenance works and controlling foliage and weed overgrowth. His latest campaign is aimed at initiating improvements to the public areas and retail unit frontage of West Kirby station.

David sits on PMC (Programme Monitoring Committee) that is instrumental in monitoring spending of ‘Objective One’ monies sourced from Europe, to improve depressed areas of Merseyside in general and Wirral in particular.

His other community involvements are many and varied. These include being Board members of Egerton House (creating business start up opportunities) Wirral CVS, Wirral CAB and a Governor of Pensby School for Girls.

David is married to Barbara and lives in Meols. He has three grown up children and several grandchildren. David is now a free lance Commercial and Construction Consultant, having retired as Divisional Director of AMEC, the international contracting and facilities management group, where he was responsible for Business Development and Construction activity in the North of England.

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