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Councillor for Woodingdean
Conservative Spokesperson on Communities, Equalities and Licensing

Dee Simson is a Councillor for Woodingdean and the Conservative Group’s Spokesperson on Communities, Equalities and Licensing.

Dee brings a wealth of experience to Brighton & Hove City Council.  Having been a councillor since 1999, Dee has had experience as a member of every Committee and having served as Mayor of Brighton & Hove from 2018-2019.

Dee is passionate about communities and equalities and has a strong relationship with the City’s voluntary sector and a strong belief that communities, be they of place or interest, should benefit everyone in them. 

With hands on experience of running the community café in Woodingdean for 17 years and a youth centre for 20 years, Dee knows first hand the vital role that community resources serve.  Dee's work in the complete refurbishment and reopening of a vibrant youth centre from a building that had previously been condemned was recognised with the Queens Award for Voluntary Service.

Dee brings great local experience of Brighton & Hove's economy to her role as a Councillor on the City Council having had a varied working life including selling ice creams & hot dogs on the seafront; working in bars; waitressing in and managing restaurants; delivering car parts; emptying fruit machines & juke boxes in pubs; being a hostess at Gatwick Airport; providing area training officer for a catering company; and running retail clothing businesses.

Dee is well known by locals at the Sunday market formerly at Brighton Station and now at Brighton Marina where she has been a market trader ‘recycling’ lost property for 35 years.

As part of her work on the council Dee oversaw the changes in Licensing Act 2003 from 2005 and has gained a reputation as the most experienced councillor working ever since to maintain fair consistent decisions for licensed premises always taking into account the individual nature of the premises and its impact. 

Dee is proud of the work she has done for Woodingdean Ward and has run many successful campaigns on behalf of the community, including securing new walking and cycling paths between Woodingdean & Falmer and also the Drove Road path as part of the South Downs way and helping secure road safety improvements such as improving the Downs Hotel Crossroads. Dee is currently campaigning to keep Brighton & Hove's green spaces free of development for the enjoyment of future generations.  Dee has been a governor at a local primary school for over 25 years.

As Mayor Dee was able to support and promote very many organisations and one of her proudest moments was leading the PRIDE parade in 2018 and the Children's parade in 2019.

 

News

Remembrance Sunday Woodingdean

How to attend a Remembrance Sunday service in Brighton & Hove

Friday, 11 November, 2022

This year it feels particularly important that we mark our Remembrance week and ensure the traditions continue.

 

Police and Crime Commissioner and Conservative Councillor De

Women's safety in Brighton's night-time economy a key budget focus for Conservatives

Thursday, 17 February, 2022

17 FEBRUARY 2022

 

BUDGET AMENDMENTS 2022/3:  WOMEN’S SAFETY IN THE NIGHT-TIME ECONOMY PACKAGE A KEY PART OF CONSERVATIVES’ BUDGET AMENDMENTS

 

Woodingdean Councillors Dee Simson and Steve Bell

Woodingdean Schools and Councillors welcome council U-turn

Wednesday, 26 January, 2022

Schools and Councillors issue statements welcoming the news that local Primary Schools will no longer face a reduction in places;
2,323 people signed petitions objecting to Council proposals to remove 15 places each from Woodingdean and Rudyard Kipling Primary Schools from 2023;

Updates from Woodingdean with Conservative Councillor, Dee Simson

Thursday, 4 November, 2021

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker speaks to Conservative Councillor Dee Simson with updates from around Woodingdean. They discuss a number of topics including traffic congestion in Woodingdean, a new outdoor gym in Central Park, accessability for disabled people on the beach and much more.

Conservative Group Leader Steve Bell CBE

Conservatives announce priorities for FULL COUNCIL

Saturday, 10 July, 2021

Conservatives make service delivery the focus for July's Full Council

Our Conservative Councillors have set out what we want to achieve on behalf of residents at next Thursday’s full meeting of Brighton & Hove City Council.

 

Woodingdean ward local issues update!

Wednesday, 24 March, 2021

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to the Conservative Party Councillor for the Woodingdean Ward, Dee Simson, about building on the urban fringe, including in the area around Whitehawk Hill, and we get a local update following the outcome of the budget in Brighton and Hove last month.

Conservative Councillor Mary Mears

Conservatives announce plan to make city's eastern seafront more accessible

Wednesday, 24 February, 2021

Disability beach access ramp plan for the City’s east
Proposal to kick-start the process for new beach huts for the eastern seafront
Plans to be funded by redirecting funding away from Greens’ Low Traffic Neighbourhood pil

 

Conservative Councillor, Dee Simson, on Local Community Action!

Monday, 11 January, 2021

Latest TV News Editor, Mark Walker, speaks to the Conservative Councillor, Dee Simson, about local Community Action in the Woodingdean Ward in Brighton and Hove before the festive break.

Widened pavement

Newly widened pavement already clogged with bins

Thursday, 15 October, 2020

Funding was provided under tranche 1 of the COVID-19 active travel fund
Council was required to ‘meaningfully alter the status quo on the road’ - but St James’s Street clogged with Council Bins

 

Ingleside Stables

Save our City's idyllic stables

Friday, 2 October, 2020

Sign the petition to help save idyllic Stables

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