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?
A disabled woman was turned away from a Devon town's nightclub after staff said her crutches could be used as weapons. Jennifer Bartle, 20, who suffers from a bone disease, was out with two friends when she tried to get into the Hush Enigma Club in Newton Abbot.
Many elderly and disabled people are missing out on free bus travel scheme because they are so frail, a charity has warned.
A disabled woman from Hereford says she has lost her independence after the theft of her electric wheelchair. Julie Bishop's £3,000 chair was taken from outside her flat in the Warndon area of the city.
The unpaid work of carers saves the UK £87bn per year - more than the total amount spent by the NHS in the last financial year, say experts. The figure, calculated by the University of Leeds for the charity Carers UK, is up 52% since the last estimate, calculated in 2002. The average person caring for a sick or frail relative is now estimated to save the nation more than £15,260 a year. The government said measures had been taken to help carers, with more due.
The Manx government is failing to provide adequate respite care and needs dramatically improving, an organisation on the Isle of Man claims. Aggrieved Carers Helping Each (ACHE), is calling for the government to provide one overnight stay a week and a week's holiday respite per carer.
Days ago it was Bristol MP Stephen Williams - now it's the turn of North East Fife MSP Iain Smith! Iain has been shortlisted for Stonewall's "Politician of the Year" award, to be presented on 1st November, thanks to his key role in furthering the cause of equality in the Scottish Parliament.
