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.
Find our more about the local plan on our frequently asked questions page.
Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?
Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling imposed the controversial new 50p top rate of tax on higher earners despite an official Treasury prediction that more than two-thirds of people earning more than £150,000 would not pay it.
Brandon Lewis, former leader of the council, has resigned from his Hutton South seat.
The old Eurostar platforms at Waterloo are currently unused whist commuters have to suffer overcrowded trains and insufficient services. Why not sign our petition to make these platforms available to South-West trains and to provide an improvement in service?
The Labour Party have confirmed that they have run out of ideas and have condemned us to years of unemployment and a decade of debt. Their pick-and-mix budget of recycled announcements will do nothing to get us out of this recession and nothing that will help the poorest who are being hit hardest by it.
After scores of complaints about the new tenancy agreement for allotments, the borough council has officially apologised for the mix up and agreed that the new agreement doesn't need to be signed for 2009.
Following the revelations that the Darwen Conservatives had invited a locally well known BNP activist to stand for them in the forthcoming Darwen Town Council elections, the Lib Dems have called for the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate - Jake Berry to distance himself from the local party's obvious serious failure.