Local Elections 2021

Supporting our Communities.

We’re proud that our party is made up of local people who care about our town. We support community facilities like Friendship House when we see them threatened by the Conservatives and we come together to say no to overnight closures at the QE2 Hospital in Welwyn Garden City. Our members lead community support groups, serve in foodbanks, and work in the fantastic NHS vaccination programme.

Your Labour candidates in Hatfield Villages
Margaret Eames-Petersen – Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council & Hertfordshire County Council
Philip Ross – Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner
(Scroll down to read more about your candidates)

Vote Labour on Thursday 6 May 2021

This election if your chance to choose a positive plan for Welwyn Hatfield’s future.

Labour will keep your council tax low while protecting key services, much like the Labour-led Council have done in Stevenage.

We’ll stand up for Health and Care workers. Labour Councillors voted for a proper pay increase for those who have been there for us during the pandemic while the Conservatives were proposing NHS pay cuts. Only Labour will bring in free parking for nurses and health workers while fighting cuts at the local QE2 Urgent Care Centre.

Labour is fighting to save vital community services like “Friendship House” in Hatfield as the Conservatives block it from being used while they work out how to pocket as much money and profit from the site as possible.

For too long greed, waste and dodgy deals have come before local people and local needs.

You can stop this right now. Vote Labour and help us put you first.

Our Pledges

*Labour Stevenage Band D Council Tax = £1904.20
Conservative Welwyn Hatfield Band D Council Tax = £1970.47

Visit our Elections 2021 page to read our pledges across housing, business, the environment, emergency services and supporting our local community in full and see what a Labour council could do for Welwyn Hatfield.

Margaret Eames-Petersen
Labour Candidate – Borough and County Councils

Margaret moved to Hatfield to become a lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire in 1993. She helped lead “Rock Solid” youth work and organised Christmas meals in Hatfield from 2010 in Howe Dell hall.

She became Head of Public Health Intelligence for Herts in 2000, leading a team and pioneering this specialism later across England. She was elected County Councillor for Hatfield North in 2017.

Margaret recently led the battle to stop the Quarry in Ellenbrook fields and continues to push the Borough to establish the promised Ellenbrook Park. She exposed the evidence of the Bromate underground and will continue to demand the right action to protect Hatfield’s water from being contaminated.

Margaret continues to be concerned at the lack of community facilities and GP practice in the newer Villages area and seeks to give the area better public services. Margaret is currently proud to be Hatfield Mayor and is a champion for Hatfield and its people.

Philip Ross
Labour Candidate for Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner

My goal is to ensure that we are all safe online, in our homes, and on the streets. Our key priority is to focus on anti-social behaviour. I am going to appoint a new anti-social behaviour commissioner who will ensure that councils, the police, and other groups such as housing landlords must work together to solve complaints. We will be focusing on county-line drug gangs that target school-age children. We will introduce an intelligence-led policing model so that we can prevent and detect crime and go back to effective community and neighbourhood policing.

Remember, have your say on the local elections.
Vote Labour on Thursday 6 May!