North Yorkshire mayor candidate: Felicity Cunliffe-Lister

Felicity Cunliffe-Lister is one of six candidates standing to be York and North Yorkshire's first mayor

Felicity Cunliffe-Lister is the Liberal Democrat candidate for Mayor of York and North Yorkshire.

She is currently a North Yorkshire councillor for the Masham & Fountains division, winning a by-election in 2023.

She runs the Swinton Estate, near Masham, which employs 150 people.

Her campaign has seven main points

The principal planks of her campaign are seven “key deliverables.”

Sustainable economic growth, greener and cheaper energy, skills and health, putting the heart back into communities, cleaner waterways, safer communities and integrated public transport and active travel.

She wants to simplify the public transport system

Ms Cunliffe-Lister's main policy is a single-ticket system, with one bus timetable covering the whole of the region which links up with rail timetables.

She wants to make it easier and safer for people to choose to walk or cycle, and says funding would be put into longer-distance, off-road routes.

The candidate supports calls for more of the A64, between York and Scarborough, to be turned into dual carriageway.

Community policing has a role to play, she says

She want to see rehabilitation through community pay-back, such as offenders litter-picking and gardening and talking to local people as they do it.

She would like more resources put into community policing and increased CCTV in some areas and additional support for the victims of crime.

Empty flats above shops to be used in her housing plan

Ms Cunliffe-Lister candidate would like funding for homes to become more energy efficient

She would also like to see more than 700 homes built on brownfield sites and says she would lobby government for more affordable homes in rural areas.

Empty units above shops should be turned into homes, she added.

In her own words