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?
In an astonishing act of betrayal of all their promises and commitments, the Conservatives at the Full District Council Meeting on December 10th 2008 voted unanimously to give up all the Areas of Special Restraint (ASRs) - to give them up for house building.
Rye residents gave Radio 4's 'Any Questions?' programme a thunderous round of applause as the show finished just before nine o'clock on Friday night at Rye College.
Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield Paul Holmes has today released figures that show that unemployment throughout Derbyshire is reaching or has surpassed the levels of unemployment Labour inherited in 1997.
Commenting on the news that millions of pounds seized from tobacco smugglers over the past eight years will have to be returned because Customs officers unlawfully confiscated their assets, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said,
Commenting on the news that magistrates have warned that police should not be given more powers to issue on-the-spot fines for careless driving because they cannot be "relied on" to handle them appropriately, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said,
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