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?
The BBC are reporting that Folkestone and Sandgate based Saga, which sells holidays and other products to the over-50s, is to merge with motoring giant AA in a deal valuing the combined firm at £6.15bn.
Dundee LibDem West End councillor Fraser Macpherson has today (Monday 25th June) hit out at graffiti vandals who have defaced much of the Seabraes area of the West End and in particular the viewing platforms.
Zahid Shah, the Liberal Democrat's Focus Team leader in St Peter's Ward, asked Cllr Robin Lawrence to join him on a brief walk round the ward. Within minutes they had found plies of dumped rubbish in an area of over grown waste land. Concealed in the long grass and nettles there were piles of black bin bags full or household waste and an old carpet.
Commenting on the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee report published today, highlighting the impact of diversion of over £160 million from the arts and heritage to the London 2012 Olympic Games, Liberal Democrat Culture Spokesperson Paul Holmes MP said:
Dundee City Council's Liberal Democrat Depute Economic Development Convener, Cllr Helen Dick, today (Sunday 24th June) gave her backing to "Wrong Trousers Day" (WTD) 2007, taking place this Friday (29th June).
Tim will start his week in the constituency on Monday with a number of meetings to deal with various issues raised by his constituents in recent weeks.
