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?
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the publication of a report by the National Housing Federation (NHF), and called on housing and planning authorities to step up their game before our rural communities die.
"The situation in Afghanistan is on a knife-edge. Yet today we have heard little in the way of fresh, new thinking from Gordon Brown," said the Leader of the Liberal Democrats.
Michael Mullaney Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Hinckley and Bosworth, has called for the Government to award big pay rises to military personnel many of whom are risking their lives on the Afghanistan frontline.
Controversial MEP will speak on legal affairs for Conservatives in European parliament.
New Conservative Shropshire Council Councillors seem to be enjoying the financial benefits without apparently putting in the work. It would seem that the new development control feel that they can ignore the fact that planning is facing huge backlogs. Out of 11 councillors only half turned up for the July meeting! Cllr Wynne puts this down to it being summer, but isn't the recess in August?
Dave Hodgson was born on an army base where his father taught the children of soldiers and he is passionate in supporting the men and women of our armed services, who daily put their lives in danger for the freedom of our country.