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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A post office which was moved to a shop basement is proving hard for disabled users to access, it has been claimed. The Bishop Street post office in Leicester closed and the new branch opened in Gallowtree Gate's WH Smith.
The European Parliament adopted a resolution on the strategy for the Bali Conference on Climate Change on 15 November. MEPs stressed that binding emission targets for all industrialised countries, a global ´cap and trade´ system and a 50% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of this century should be some of the EU´s core targets for the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference.
The clock is counting down to the big debate in Brentwood when councillors will discuss the blockbuster plans for a £25million multi-screen cinema and shopping complex.
In an email to Cllr Karen Chilvers, the Post Office has admitted they have made errors in the consultation document which could see the closure of Warley Hill Post Office.
Acting Liberal Democrat Leader Vince Cable has called on the prime minister to confirm how much money the government has lent to the troubled Northern Rock bank. Following his receipt of a letter from the Chancellor in which he refused to disclose details of the growing loan to the bank, the acting Liberal Democrat leader raised the issue at prime minister's questions. Dr Cable asked Gordon Brown to confirm that lending to the bank had topped £24bn and also pointed out that this amounted to double the annual public spending on primary schools. In response to questioning the PM failed to give an assurance that the money would be paid back in full with interest by the end of this Parliament.
Local MP Tim Farron has obtained figures which suggest a rise of some £115,000 in the cost of re-branding the Department for Trade and Industry as the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. The Minister claimed on October 25th that the cost of re-branding the Department would be £77,000, but in an answer to Mr Farron on the 12th of November, less than three weeks later, the Minister set the cost at £192,000.
