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?
Councillor Ian Beardsmore, on behalf of the Liberal Democrat Group, has strongly denied Tory claims that pre-meetings prior to the Planning Committee are open to all members. At no time has any Liberal Democrat member been invited to these meetings nor have they ever been informed that meetings take place.
Liberal Democrat MEP Liz Lynne will be meeting with members of the Wolverhampton Pensioners Convention on Friday to discuss her work at Vice- President of the European Parliament's Employment and Social Affairs Committee in combating the discrimination and social exclusion of older people.
Local Lib Dems have slammed Conservative Hypocrisy on the M4 Park & Ride. The Conservatives had opposed the principle of the M4 Park & Ride because they claimed it would have to be built on a Green Field site in the Green belt. They also claimed that the whole concept of a Park & Ride was a failed concept that didn't work and belonged in the past.
Alistair Darling has admitted that a further economic recovery package could be needed in the future as rumours have come to light that an all important budget could be delayed.
Central Rochdale Councillor Zulfiqar Ali has extended an open invitation to Birkenhead MP Frank Field to come and look at integration in Rochdale first hand.
A FLURRY of shop closures which is threatening to turn Datchet into a "ghost village" is a result of draconian parking measures, shopkeepers said this week.