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?
Recent meetings of the South Hams District Council's committees and full Council have endorsed proposals to charge disabled drivers for up to three hours parking and give them a fourth hour free. In the annual budget setting process increased car parks charges are again being proposed as a suitable way of helping to restore Government underfunding.
Commenting on the Government's Council Tax Benefit advertising campaign, Parmjit Singh Gill MP, Member of Parliament for Leicester South, said:
Mick Bates AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat Countryside spokesperson today commented on back-tracking by the Labour government in allowing a situation to develop where ancient native woodland is being put at risk due to lack of restoration efforts.
An innovative new recycling project in Renfrewshire will provide a route back to work for the area's long-term unemployed and also provide refurbished computers to disadvantaged households and groups.
Liberal Democrats today set out details of their plans to replace the unfair Council Tax with a new Local Income Tax.
In an unprecedented move, leaders of all four political groups on Epsom & Ewell Borough Council have jointly written demanding that Government cash is delivered as promised. In response to Local Government Minister Nick Raynesford's announcement that all 'shire' Districts would receive 3% extra grant to help with next year's budget, councillors united to write asking for this to be delivered.
