David Burbage, leader of Conservative-run Windsor and Maidenhead council, said the aim was to make schemes work without being dependent on public money.
In Leicestershire, there are 205 candidates contesting 55 seats in 52 divisions from Burbage Castle to Belvoir and Warren Hills to Wigston South and all points between.
Mr Burbage is also confident that once production at the firm's mile-long factory in Fort Worth ramps up to 17 aircraft a month, as planned, the more pessimistic unit-cost projections will start to fall.