Alan Simon Crowcroft is a

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politician, Connétable of

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, and former teacher. He has been an elected member of the States of Jersey since 1996.

Background

Crowcroft is the son of zoologists Peter Crowcroft and Gillian Godfrey. He was educated at

Canford School Canford School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18). Situated in 300 acres of parkland near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, south west England, it is one of the largest sch ...

and

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...

University, and received a Diploma in Education from

Westminster College, Oxford Westminster College was a teacher training college and college of higher education in England. The college was founded in London in 1851 as a training institute for teachers for Wesleyan Methodist schools, but moved to Oxford in 1959. Before t ...

. After a career in teaching English in Oxford and Jersey, he founded the Jersey School of English in 1991. He is married with five children. He founded the Jersey Pedestrians Association following an accident suffered by his son in St Helier in 1994.

Political career

Crowcroft was first elected to the States of Jersey as a Deputy of St Helier in 1996 as a representative of St Helier District No. 2 constituency. In December 2001, he successfully stood for election as Connétable of

, defeating incumbent Bob Le Brocq. He was re-elected unopposed in December 2004. In January 2008, he defeated

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candidate, Alvin Aaron. He was again re-elected unopposed in

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. Crowcroft supported the creation of the ''Millennium Town Park'' in St Helier, which was opened in 2011. In 2012 Crowcroft completed the signing of a twinning agreement with the Mayor of

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, Dr Miguel Albuquerque. St Helier and

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have close ties due to a significant number of Madeirans living in Jersey.

Parish rates

In March 2013, Crowcroft stated that the States of Jersey should pay parish

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on the properties it owns, and that "they would probably be more efficient in their use of property" if they were paying annual rates in the same way as others do. The Treasury Minister, Senator Philip Ozouf, said that the rates payment could be around £1.6m and that there was no provision for it in the budget. In Jersey, parish rates are normally paid annually by owners or occupiers of land, structures and buildings. These payments are used to pay for each parish's general expenses.

References

External links

Simon Crowcroft blog Your Parish online: St Helier
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Background

Political career

Parish rates

See also

References

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