Save our green belt

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.

Find our more about the local plan on our frequently asked questions page.

Save our green belt

Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?

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Government is covering up the facts about ID cards

The Freedom of Information watchdog ordered the Department of Work and Pensions to publish its findings about how the cards could fight ID fraud, the department has decided to appeal against the ruling. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman Nick Clegg said "The public has a right to know if the billions of pounds the government is committing to this massive project will be money well spent. It is a measure of the government's failure to justify ID cards that during the passage of the bill they never once released a full estimate of its costs and impact."

7 Jul 2006

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Lib-Dems condemn confused government policy on SEN

Commenting on the Education and Skills Select Committee report on Special Educational Needs, Liberal Democrat Select Committee member Paul Holmes MP said:

7 Jul 2006

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Official: They Just DON'T Care

A recent spot check on a Folkestone Town Centre car park confirms the decline in our area. Shellons Street car park near Guildhall Street was selected at random, but the check revealed at least seven major issues with the state of the car park, from litter to graffiti, uncut verges to damaged kerbs.

7 Jul 2006

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Michael Charlton, Dundee Liberal Democrats' local party secretary

Dundee LibDems back Campbell's call for fairer and simpler taxes

Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Friday 7th July) gave their backing to calls from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell for fairer and simpler taxes in the UK.

7 Jul 2006

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Praise from MEP as North East Leads Fair Trade Growth

Fiona Hall, the North East's Liberal Democrat member of the European Parliament has praised the work of North East organisation Traidcraft.

7 Jul 2006

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Four Chelmsford Lib Dems set out to deliver leaflets in the Bromley by-election

Lib Dems would win Chelmsford on much less than Bromley swing

The 14% swing from Conservatives to Lib Dems in the Bromley by-election on 29 June is more than double what the Lib Dems need to win the Chelmsford constituency. The drop in the Conservative majority of 11% is the worst by-election result for the Conservatives in a Tory seat since Wirral South in February 1997 - the last days of the John Major premiership.

6 Jul 2006

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