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?
Big changes are happening at a Blackburn school - the future is being built. The new term at Pleckgate Mathematics and Computing College will see the initial signs of activity on the first school to be constructed under the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Starting this month work will be carried out to the area around the shops on Glentworth Gardens. More than two years ago plans were drawn up to redevelop the front of the shops to make them less likely to attract anti-social behaviour. Sadly these plans were ignored by St Peter's Labour Councillors and nothing was done.
A special meeting of the council has awarded the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment the Freedom of the Borough of Epsom & Ewell.
In November the City Council's development control committee approved Your Homes Newcastle (YHN)'s proposal for 19 homes for young families on the former Star Centre site (Kenton Road/Jubilee Road).
Jill Wareham, local resident and previous campaigner for saving the Military Road over Afton Down has been prompted by two Brighstone Parish Councillors, Roy Havilland (Hulverstone & Mottistone ward) and Peter Simmonds (Brook ward), to start a petition to Save the Military Road.
Residents in Callerton deserve better bus services.