The four candidates vying for the support of voters in next week’s Nascot by-election have set out their stalls to the electorate.

The Liberal Democrats, Greens, Labour and the Conservatives are all eyeing the ward’s vacant seat at Watford Borough Council after the previous Lib Dem incumbent, Andrew Forrest, resigned his seat to take up a new job in Ireland.

Nascot goes to the polls on Thursday September 29 and stations are open between 7am and 10pm.

The ward’s remaining two council seats are split between the Liberals and Conservative.

The last two elections have been a close run affair between the Conservative and Liberals, with Labour and the Greens coming a distant third and fourth each time.

All four candidates running in Thursday’s ballot cited planning and over development of Nascot as their main issue.

Lib Dem Jeanette Aron, a 47-year-old mother and parent governor at Nascot Wood Junior School, said if elected she would lobby for less building in the area.

She said: “My priority would be development, trying to curb that as Nascot seems to be the place where people want to build and we are losing our green spaces.”

Her Conservative opponent, 31-year-old mum-of-one Penny Edwards, said reducing building in the area was also top of her priorities.

She asked people to vote for her on Thursday as she promised to make a difference for Nascot residents if elected to Watford Town Hall.

She said: “I don’t have political aspirations, I am not looking to become MP. I am generally interested in getting involved, helping and making a difference.”

The Labour candidate, Omar Ismail, leveled an attack on the two other main parties as part of his pitch to voters.

He said: “Locally the Lib Dems shut the public loos, removed dog mess bins, sacked street sweepers and nationally they back Tory cuts to the NHS, army, police, child benefit – the list goes on.

“No wonder people are clearly fed up with them.”

The Green Party said as well as lobbying to curb building projects, if elected to the Nascot seat it would campaign for a wildlife census of the area.

Sally Ivins, the Green candidate and a retired marketing manager, said: “One of the things I would like to promote is a wildlife survey so residents can find out what wildlife is left.”