Alan Simon Crowcroft is a
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...
politician,
Connétable of
St Helier, 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 s ...
and
Emmanuel College, Cambridge 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
St Helier, defeating incumbent Bob Le Brocq. He was re-elected unopposed in December 2004. In January 2008, he defeated
Jersey Democratic Alliance candidate, Alvin Aaron. He was again re-elected unopposed in
2011.
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
Funchal
Funchal () is the largest city, the municipal seat and the capital of Portugal's Autonomous Region of Madeira, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. The city has a population of 105,795, making it the sixth largest city in Portugal. Because of its high ...
, Dr Miguel Albuquerque. St Helier and
Madeira 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
rates 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.
See also
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Parish Assembly
References
External links
Simon Crowcroft blog Your Parish online: St Helier
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Constables of Jersey
People from Saint Helier
Living people
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Deputies of Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Westminster College, Oxford