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?
It’s going to be a short one this week. I am writing from the Liberal Democrats’ Autumn Conference in Bournemouth.
Responding to an embargoed paper by the Commission on School Reform, which calls for Scottish schools to be able to suspend and exclude, Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesperson Willie Rennie MSP said:
This week I took part in a Westminster Hall debate about SEND, which was tabled after a petition calling to “Retain the legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND” reached over 125,000 signatures.
A short update from the Liberal Democrat Conference in Bournemouth
Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has said that Keir Starmer is at risk of being “continuity Sunak” if he decides not to attend the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
In his keynote address to the Liberal Democrat’s 2025 Autumn Conference, Party Leader Ed Davey will unveil his plans to give US cancer research scientists fleeing the Trump administration’s “anti-science agenda” a dedicated fellowship scheme so they can c
