Budget changes to rates must not harm small businesses, says MP
The imminent threat of further harm to small businesses through business rate changes has been challenged by local Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart.
The Government has doubled the housebuilding target for Stockport, weakened the protections on a third of our precious green belt, and is forcing the Council through Ministerial Directives and threats to adopt a Local Plan which will let developers target green belt first.
We oppose this government’s ‘developers charter’ and need your voice. Do you agree with us that the green spaces that make our area special need to be preserved, and new housing should first be built on brownfield sites, after the infrastructure is provided with schools, improved transport, and GP places guaranteed? Help us send a message to Government and make Labour listen to local people.
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Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?
The imminent threat of further harm to small businesses through business rate changes has been challenged by local Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart.
The Liberal Democrats have slammed a recent spike in the goods trade between Russia and the UK – including tens of millions of pounds spent on importing Russian planes – as the party prepares a parliamentary bill to seize billions in frozen assets.
Scottish Liberal Democrat economy and transport spokesperson Jamie Greene MSP, who is also standing in the Ferguson Marine home of Inverclyde in next year’s Holyrood election, has today accused the SNP government of keeping islanders and workers at the sh
Waverley Lib Dems are delighted that Janet Crowe, WBC and GTC Councillor for Farncombe & Catteshall has joined us. She brings an impressive breadth of experience in governance, strategic planning, policy development and delivery of services.
On Saturday I dropped in to the Burgess Hill Repair Cafe, and got some trousers re-hemmed...
Liberal Democrat Councillors are driving home their campaign to reduce traffic on roads around Sevenoaks and give residents across the region easier access to the M26 route to the Kent coast.