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 news that the HM Revenue and Customs Office (HMRC) in Kendal tax is to be kept open for at least another year after Mr Farron won a reprieve for the local tax officer following a meeting with Treasury Minister Stephen Timms MP.
Transport planners are optimistic that Rochdale might still get Metrolink trams in the town centre.
Essex County Council has lodged an appeal against the planning decision of Chelmsford Borough Council on Moulsham Lodge Centre. Chelmsford Borough agrees that the centre should remain in community use; Essex County Council wants to sell it off as a private medical centre. The appeal will be considered over the summer.
The panel set up by the Tory administration of Mid Sussex District Council to decide the pay and benefits of the Chief Executive will meet in private on 13th May.
The County Council claims that 36,000 people have benefitted from the Stoke Hammond bypass, but ignore the fact that our villages have suffered as a result Hopes that the County Council was going to take action to get the London Waste lorries back on the M1 where they belong have rapidly faded.
Bucks County Council's Speed Limit Review has frequently disappeared off the radar, but looks like re-appearing once again this summer, as work is scheduled to begin on area 13, which coveres the Ivinghoe division.