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?
Shepway Lib Dem Group Leader Lynne Beaumont recommends watching the video at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5ln08_makethisvideogoaroundtheworld_news of a 13-year old Canadian girl speaks for 6 minutes at a UN Conference on the Environment in Brazil.
It was with great pride, I took part in the demonstration outside the High Court in London this week, standing alongside hundreds of retired Gurkha's. The demonstration had been organised to show the world how badly this country treats its best soldiers, with no right to remain in this country if they retired before 1997, even after giving 24 years of their lives to defend this country.
The Rochdale Township awarded £6,000 to each ward in the town earlier this year and in Castleton they have spent some of their funding in a bid to tackle the area's anti-social behaviour problem.
The long public enquiry into Spelthorne's new development plan (also known as the Local Development Framework or LDF for short) has come to its end following three weeks of hearings. Lib Dems have challenged the plan as being a developers' charter.
This email came through from a Mr. Doughty, have any of you tried this? We did ask at the Stamford Town Forum whether what Mr. Doughty's suggests could be done and the answer was a simple NO. Why? By the way if SKDC introduced a start time of 8.30am for the bus passes in line with other Six District Councils, the cost to them would be at the most £17000. We can't see why you can't do what Mr. Doughty has suggested.
July 2008 letter from Bill Newton Dunn - East Midlands Liberal Democrat MEP