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?
Local MP Tim Farron spoke up for health services in Morecambe Bay during a debate at the Liberal Democrats' Spring Conference in Harrogate. Tim was speaking on his amendment to a policy motion about deficits in the NHS.
Sir Menzies Campbell, the newly elected federal leader of the Liberal Democrats today (Sunday 5th March) gave a rousing address to the party's Spring Federal Conference in Harrogate, spelling out his platform for taking the party forward.
5 March 2006
Official figures show that same-sex couples have registered 3,648 civil partnerships in England and Wales in the space of two months, since same-sex partnerships became legally recognised in December 2005.
Addressing the Liberal Democrats' Spring Conference the new leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, said he wants to create a fairer society. He thought that there had been too much attention on the policy of a 50% top tax rate, a policy scrapped after last year's election, but he would cut taxes for the poor without increasing the overall burden.
Ming Campbell has been elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, taking over from Charles Kennedy.
