“…vote for the candidate you think will do more for your area and who shares your views,…”
Then, even assuming your choice is successful and that he or she is a member of the party which eventually controls the council, sit back for five years and enjoy the council saying they cannot undertake the pledges they made in their manifesto (and on which you based your vote). This will be because they are too difficult/expensive/sensitive/impractical or any number of reasons which they had not considered when making their promises.
Save your time and angst. Elected local authorities are a waste of time and a scandalous waste of money. Local services should be run by an Executive operating under devolved powers from Westminster. Before too long Westminster will be running principally on devolved powers from Brussels/Strasbourg and that will save us all the time and bother of voting.