GREAT Sankey Parish councillor Jim Regan has announced he will be standing down at the May elections due to health reasons.
He has served the area for nearly eight years as a parish councillor and was also a borough councillor as a Liberal Democrat for four years.
He hopes to remain involved with the Dorchester Residents Association which he currently Chairs.
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There should be a limit on the term of office Parish Councillors are permitted to serve, say two consecutive terms of four years and enforced break of at least four years before becoming a PC again. This will hopefully bring new blood where it’s patently needed and put a stop cosy cabals shaped in party lines, which have no place on Parish Councils. I also consider that councillors should not be allowed to serve as Parish and Borough representatives at the same time, because there is very often a conflict of interest, between the interests of the local community (paramount for a PC) and party political allegiances (upper most for BCs) which is not healthy for local democracy.