Policy
The state of a neighbourhood's streets is not a minor issue. It is a signal about whether public institutions are functioning and whether residents are being taken seriously.
Marc's position on street cleanliness and antisocial behaviour is straightforward: enforcement matters, consistency matters, and residents deserve councillors who are willing to use the powers available to them rather than making excuses for why they cannot. In Norland, the issues he hears about most consistently are fly-tipping, the standard of street cleaning, and antisocial behaviour linked to e-bike misuse. These are not glamorous policy issues. They are the issues that determine whether residents feel that the council is working for them or against them.
His approach has been to work directly with RBKC enforcement teams to increase patrols in fly-tipping hotspots, to push for consistent application of fixed penalty notices rather than the discretionary approach that has allowed repeat offenders to escape sanction, and to hold the council to account publicly when cleaning standards fall below what residents should expect.
He believes that the broken windows principle applies directly to local government: when small things are allowed to slide, larger problems follow. A council that cannot keep its streets clean is a council that has lost the habit of delivery.
Marc intends to be a councillor who holds that standard, and a parliamentarian who argues for the local enforcement powers and resources needed to maintain it.