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?
Welcome to my Monday Mail for 15 July 2024. As your Liberal Democrat MP for Mid Sussex, I write a short email each Monday sharing what I have been doing and thinking about in the past week.
Newly elected MP for Melksham and Devizes, Brian Mathew, has already raised the case for Melksham Hospital to be revived.
‘‘The battle to save Muriel Green Nursery should not have taken anything like this long and the Beaumont School place fiasco should never have happened in the first place.''
With Liberal Democrat MPs elected across almost all of Somerset as well as swathes of Devon and Dorset, Jane Ashdown, widow of Paddy Ashdown (Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon) says:
Following an approach from Cllr Thom Campion (Liberal Democrats) to the Lord Mayor, the Civic Centre has flown the England flag for the Euro24 semis and final today.
Lincoln’s Liberal Democrat councillors are proposing a motion asking the council to implement bee-friendly bus shelters across the city.