David Ritchie - Bungay and Wainford ward

David and his wife Rachel live in an old farm house in ‘The Saints’ where they keep cats, sheep and chickens.
In St James, Rachel is the church warden, in Bungay she is a volunteer at All Hallowes nursing home.
David has been your County Councillor since 2009.
District Councillor for The Saints since 2006.
David says: “Having been a Cabinet Member for Planning and Coastal Management at the District Council and Deputy Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and the County, I view myself as a full-time councillor. If elected, I will do my utmost to prepresent all of the twenty-four parishes of the Bungay and Wainford ward at the new East Suffolk Council.
Last September, with three friends, I cycled the four hundred miles from St David’s in Wales to Ness Point in Lowestoft. We raised just under £5,000 for Fitzroy Transforming Lives – a charity looking after adults with Downes Syndrome or severe autism. We got very wet, and we got lost in the mountains – but we had a great time.
David is the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Planning and Coastal Management at East Suffolk Council. He is also on the Board of the Lowestoft Flood Risk Management Scheme.