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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Hythe Lib Dems have invoked little used council rules to stop the Council's final planning decision on the Hythe Imperial development being made in a sub-committee of the council. Cllr Darren Briddock has used a veto to force the final council decision to be made at the next meeting of Hythe Town Council instead of in a planning sub committee.
Speaking on the release of Abdelbaset Ali Al Megrahi, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg said: "It is absurd and damaging that the British Prime Minister simply remains silent in the hope that someone else will take the flak."
Nick Perry, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary campaigner for Hastings & Rye, has issued a stark warning following reports in the Business Section of Monday's Guardian that BT has become 'one of the first big name companies to scrap its graduate recruitment scheme'.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed the news that a new buyer has been found for Sleddale Hall near Shap, but has urged the new owner (Mr Tim Ellis of Canterbury) to preserve the spirit of the classic film in his development of the property.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has responded to the news that the North West Ambulance Service is missing its response targets in Cumbria by reiterating his call for ambulances to be allowed to take patients to the Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron is set to join thousands of local residents as he hands over his petition for a cancer treatment unit in Kendal on 3 October 2009. Tim will also be highlighting the distance cancer patients currently have to travel by walking through the night from the Royal Preston Hospital to the Westmorland General.