The document summarizes the candidate manifestos for Metro Mayor of the West of England. It outlines each candidate's policies on skills and training, transport and infrastructure, housing and planning, business and enterprise, and the environment. The policies focus on issues like apprenticeships, public transport improvements, boosting affordable housing development, supporting local businesses, promoting renewable energy, and protecting the green belt.

1. youth and
adult skills
West of England Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
No skills policies featured in manifesto
Tim Bowles, Conservatives
• Increase the number of young people accessing
advanced apprenticeships in engineering and
related field, with particular emphasis on bringing
more of a gender balance to the sector.
StephenWilliams, Liberal Democrats
• Apprenticeships grant for employers
• Adult skills budget
• Post-16 further education
The metro mayor will have control over the:
• Work with the Local Enterprise Partnership,
colleges and employers to provide training
opportunities, including apprenticeships that
track trainees to ensure full training is achieved
• Integrate the Apprenticeship Grant for
Employers (AGE) into post 19+ training
through consultation with businesses and
key stakeholders
Lesley Mansell, Labour
Darren Hall, Greens
Aaron Foot, UKIP
• Support skilled workers from overseas to remain
within the West of England
• Work with local businesses, colleges and training
providers to create skills program that meets needs
of both people and the economy
• Commit significant resources into the adult learning
sector to develop lifelong learning
• Committing to maintain open libraries and centres
of community learning
• Assist the long term jobless in returning into work
John Savage, Independent
• Rebalance life chances for the underemployed
and disconnected by improving their skills and
matching local business’s needs;
• Invest in health education;
• Bring private sector resource to skills provision;
• Influence radical changes on investments for
young people and education.
No skills policies featured in manifesto

2. West of England Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Improve the road network in Bristol and the rest
of the West of England
• Make sure that vital transport schemes in this
area, like reviving our suburban rail services, are
strongly championed – and that all communities
get their fair share of nearly £1 billion of funding
Tim Bowles, Conservatives
• Improve road connectivity with a new junction
on the M4 to serve the Science Park, ensuring
that villages north of the M4 are protected by a
new direct link to Yate
• Improve rail connectivity with at least four new
stations (Ashley Hill, Portway, Charfield and Saltford)
• Improve the transport links by bus and rail to
the Filton area to support companies in the
Aerospace industry
• Work with Network Rail to increase the frequency
of services along the Severn Beach Line to ensure
people are able to get to work without a car
• Give high priority to a step change in bus and rail
links between our two cities.
StephenWilliams, Liberal Democrats
• Introduce a regional App and Smart Card
System to ensure people can travel with ease
• Ensure that there are no further station closures,
increase the frequency of existing rail services,
and co-ordinate upgrading of existing transport
provision
• Establish an integrated Transport Authority to
provide the services the entire region needs
• Push for transport companies to provide free
travel to young people aged between 16 and 19
on buses and trains.
Lesley Mansell, Labour
Darren Hall, Greens
Aaron Foot, UKIP
• Build a regional, joined-up transport system
by pooling community transport budgets to
create a social enterprise public transport system
• Prioritise space for pedestrians and ensure
dedicated cycling routes are integrated into
all future transport schemes, ensuring those that
are already in place are easier to use
• Trial ‘free EV charging’ as part of your parking charge
John Savage, Independent
• End the 20MPH zones
• Open blocked roads
• Reduce traffic lights
• Look at opening satellite rail stations.
transport and
infrastructure
• Consolidated transport budget
• Local roads network
• Bus franchising and smart ticketing
The metro mayor will have control over the:
• Reduce congestion in the region by 15% by
introducing a new scheme that provides a
discounted fare once a week for anyone who
opts to take a peak time bus to and from work
• Begin the process of building a modern tram
network with three key routes
• Introduce e-ticket technology to switch to Smart
public transport
• Explore new ways to get into Bath and Bristol;
• Encourage a more joined up approach to cycling
provision

3. West of England Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
• Work to ease the pressure for green field
development and the Green Belt. Too often
green field development has been the ‘easy’
option when brownfield regeneration sites
haven’t been exhausted
Tim Bowles, Conservatives
• Set up a joint house building social enterprise
between the three local councils in order to build
homes for sale and private sector rent with the
surplus invested in homes for social rent
• Build new homes primarily in existing urban areas,
promoting brownfield development, new homes
will only be added to country towns and villages
when adequate public transport is in place.
StephenWilliams, Liberal Democrats
• Build more social housing and affordable homes
• Build 4,000 homes – 1,200 affordable – a year
across the West of England by 2021
• Return empty properties into housing stock
• Invest in infrastructure to support housing
development
• Ensure the granting of planning consent is
conditional on the existence of public transport
links
• Make the most out of brownfield development.
Lesley Mansell, Labour
Darren Hall, Greens
Aaron Foot, UKIP
• Promote neighbourhood plans and community
led developments
• Introduce Renter’s Charter and a Living Rent
to support landlords and tenants
• Introduce an ethical lettings charter that requires
landlords to achieve EPC level-C rating in 5 years
• Support innovative housing solutions such as
custom-build, co-housing and self-finish
• Ensure all new developments over 40 units are
net-energy positive by 2020, raising building
standards to eradicate fuel poverty
• Cease the sale of public assets to private developers
and introduce an ‘open data land registry’
John Savage, Independent
• Protect the Green Belt and prioritise brownfield
development
• Review land availability and values and have a
clear understanding with residents on good locations
for growth and ensure service provision
• Build new homes – with a significant number truly
affordable – and build new communities
• Maximise the use of brownfield land by moving
towards less conventional construction methods
and modular building
housing and
planning
• Strategic Planning
• Compulsory purchase powers
• Mayoral Development Corporations
The metro mayor will have control over:

4. West of England Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
No business policies featured in manifesto
Tim Bowles, Conservatives
• Establish Bristol and Bath as a national hub for
the creative and digital industries, with new
opportunities for growth at Temple Meads and
Bath Quays;
• Use part of the £30 million annual investment
fund to create affordable space for start-up
creative, high tech businesses and for social
enterprises.
StephenWilliams, Liberal DemocratsLesley Mansell, Labour
Darren Hall, Greens
Aaron Foot, UKIP
• Pay at least the official living wage and provide
greater job security
• Work with businesses to set up a Regional Business
Investment Fund to focus and strengthen our local
economy
• Establish specific business contribution schemes
to improve investment in productivity, sustainability
and energy efficiency
John Savage, Independent
business and
enterprise
• Work with employers and trade unions to
promote the West of England as a Living Wage
region, encouraging local authorities to pay
employees and contractors at least the Living
Wage as specified by the Living Wage Foundation
• Prioritise local businesses for contracts awarded
by the combined authority.
No business policies featured in manifesto
No business policies featured in manifesto

5. West of England Metro Mayor - Candidate Manifestos
No environment policies featured in manifesto
Tim Bowles, Conservatives
• Establish Bristol and Bath as a national hub for
the creative and digital industries, with new
opportunities for growth at Temple Meads and
Bath Quays;
• Use part of the £30 million annual investment
fund to create affordable space for start-up
creative, high tech businesses and for social
enterprises.
StephenWilliams, Liberal DemocratsLesley Mansell, Labour
Darren Hall, Greens
Aaron Foot, UKIP
• Raise the region’s profile as a world leader in the
low carbon, environmental goods & services,
renewable energy and ethical finance
• Introduce Clean AirZones for Bristol and Bath
• Support local, renewable energy providers
• Campaign to stop Hinkley C being built and investing
instead in renewable energy;
• Ensure farming practices are nature friendly;
• Protect & improve green infrastructure including
natural schemes for flood prevention and mitigation
John Savage, Independent
• Set up a commercially attractive regional
energy company to encourage investment into
carbon free energy sources
• Strive to make the West of England Combined
Authority run on clean energy only by 2050;
• Promote recycling, setting a target of 55% for all
waste by 2020.
• Require that new homes will be built in sustainable
communities and will respect sustainability standards
• Look to preserve and enhance our landscape assets.
No environment policies featured in manifesto
environment