03-04-2025
Councillor and campaigners prepare to set sail for unique advice surgery
A TEAM of local councillors and campaigners are preparing to host an advice surgery unlike any other held in the town before.
Liberal Democrat councillors and campaigners will be holding an aquatic advice surgery for residents this weekend, sailing down the canal to speak to local residents along the way.
The Stourbridge Lion Team, comprised of former Cllrs Lois Brammall and David Sheppard and Cllr Andrew Tromans, will be sailing a narrowboat down the Stourbridge Arm of the canal and stopping to listen to local concerns during the journey.
Liberal Democrat campaigner for Wollaston and Stourbridge Town, David Sheppard, said: 'What we are hearing on the doorstep is that voters wouldn't touch either Labour or the Tories with a barge pole right now.
'We are providing an alternative by demonstrating that we can deliver on local issues and bring decision making closer to community.
"We are working hard to build trust with residents with events such as our floating advice surgery.'
The boat, renamed The Stourbridge Lion for the weekend, will be stopping at Wollaston Road Canal Bridge, opposite the Glass House College Mooring, between 3.00pm and 5.00pm tomorrow (Friday, April 4) and near Bells Mill Bridge between 10.30am and12.30pm on Saturday (April 5).
Attendees will be offered light refreshments and will have a separate booth to air any confidential concerns with their local Liberal Democrat team.
Former Wollaston and Stourbridge Town Cllr Lois Brammall said: 'Joining the Stourbridge Lion Team has been a homecoming.
"It has been wonderful to work alongside David and Cllr Tromans, but also to reconnect with so many residents who remember me from my time serving on Dudley Council previously.
'I am looking forward to hearing what folks using the canal this weekend have to say and campaigning for better facilities for children and young people in our area.'
