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?
Government plans for a points based system for immigration could have a massive detrimental impact on the performing arts, according to Liberal Democrat Arts and Culture Spokesperson, Paul Holmes MP.
A US military judge has thrown out charges against a Canadian and a Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee today. Both cases collapsed because military authorities had failed to designate the men as "unlawful" enemy combatants. This casts fresh doubt on efforts to try foreign terror suspects.
I'm taking the opportunity of World Environment Day today to update you on the progress we have been making as Britain's greenest major party.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen challenged Tony Blair at Prime Minister's Question Time on the potential closure of Accident and Emergency services at Rochdale Infirmary. He asked the Prime Minister: "Can the Prime Minister tell the House what the evidence is for his assertion that closing or downgrading A&E's like Rochdale's saves lives?" The Prime Minister answered but Mr Rowen was far from satisfied with his response.
SWW's top boss, Chris Loughlin, has met with Liberal Democrat MPs as part of their campaign to drive forward a fairer system for water bills. Due to the Conservative privatisation programme sadly the South West pays the most expensive rates in the country, suffering from disproportionate sewage clean-up costs.
Speaking in the House of Commons debate today on the diversion of Lottery funding for the arts and heritage to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Liberal Democrat Culture Spokesman Paul Holmes MP will say:
