Cllr. Maia Whitelegg
Maia Whitelegg, 34, is a Green Party Councillor on Lancaster City Council. She gained her seat in the 2007 landslide election, when the Greens increased their numbers from 7 to 12.
Maia served as a cabinet member on the city council from 2007 to 2008. She worked in the areas of culture, leisure, sports and young people.
Maia was brought up in Lancaster. She studied International Business Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. She then went to Brussels to work for the Green Parties in the European Parliament. She also worked as a business manager in Spain. Maia is now studying for an MA in Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire.
Community Engagement
Since becoming elected, Maia has been involved in a wide range of issues.
She has worked hard to change council policy to
• provide more cultural services
• engage the community
• make services more accessible.
Maia's current priorities are:
• housing & homelessness, particularly for young people;
• youth participation
• anti-social behaviour
• play facilities for children.
Maia's interest in national issues covers the full range of Green Party priorities. She focuses primarily on:
• social justice
• local democracy
• access for all to good quality, affordable housing.
Currently the UK has
• an unacceptably high rate of child poverty
• widening gaps in wealth and income between rich and poor
• unresolved homelessness problems.
Most of these problems stem from regressive government spending. This rewards the well-off and punishes the poor or disadvantaged.
