Stephen was elected as a County Councillor in 2001 for Oxhey and Central Watford and has been the Liberal Democrats Transport Spokesperson since then. He was been particularly active in campaigning for improvements in highways and on traffic issues. He has exposed the various failures of Herts Highways in getting repairs done and traffic schemes completed.

He led the call for an audit of the Oxhey Village Green Zone works. Here the County failed to do the works to residents' satisfaction and caused massive inconvenience to residents and local traders. They even had to come back and rebuild
several of the traffic calming features.

He has successfully got two new pedestrian crossings in Central Watford at Beechen Grove and Lower High Street. He fought to ensure the traffic lights at Watford Junction Station stayed turned off, easing traffic congestion around the station

Before moving to this area, Stephen was a Harrow Borough Councillor from 1978 to 1998, served as Mayor from 1995-1996, and chaired several committees including Traffic, Finance and planning during that time.

Stephen lives in Watford in Tudor Manor Gardens and is a Senior Policy advisor to Customs currently working in Whitehall
having previously led an anti smuggling team at Heathrow.

Stephen says,
"My Council work varies from dealing with day to day matters which residents bring to me, such as problems with trees, broken pavements, help with services such as Adult Care, children excluded from school, graffiti, street cleansing, provision of parking bays, yellow lines and so on, to the major issues which sometimes take months to resolve.

If re-elected, I and my Liberal Democrat colleagues, will continue to press Herts Highways to address the problems with our roads, particularly in regard to major traffic congestion and road repairs. Under the Conservatives the County Council has failed to deal with these issues and even cut the funding for road repairs and traffic schemes in the Watford area. This is a
disgrace, as this area has the highest traffic congestion in the whole of Herts."