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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Dundee Liberal Democrats have today (Tuesday 29th April) slammed Labour MPs who last night voted through the doubling of tax on people on low and modest incomes.
COMMUTERS will have to wait an extra eight years to see their station refurbished, it has been revealed.
On Saturday 26th April, the statue of Guglielmo Marconi, Chelmsford's founder of broadcasting, duly arrived in "Marconi Plaza" near to the Chelmsford's theatres and bus station redevelopment. That was welcome but Jude Deakin and Graham Pooley, local councillors for this part of Chelmsford - called Marconi Ward - hope it's symbolic of fresh action for Chelmsford's West End.
Nick Clegg has branded the Government's treatment of older people as 'a stain on the moral conscience of this country'. In a speech this morning in London about the crisis in social care for older people, Nick Clegg set out his party's plan for a Personal Care Payment based on need, not the ability to pay. As the only major political party to set out plans on how to reform social care, the Liberal Democrats are calling for a cross-party consensus on the difficult choices that have to be made to ensure that all those who need social care have access to it.
Scores of children and babies have been locked up in filthy prison cells in Harare as Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, sinks to new depths in his campaign to force the opposition into exile before an expected run-off in presidential elections. Lib Dem Shadow Foreign Secretary Edward Davey has written to Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell, who chairs the Forfeiture Committee, urging him to revoke Robert Mugabe's honorary Knighthood. 16 MPs, led by Liberal Democrat MP Paul Keetch, have called on the Government to strip Mugabe of his honour.
Residents of Maltese Road, Chelmsford, are gearing up for the planning Appeal on Tuesday May 13th, which will decide whether or not to allow the demolition of Courtman House. Residents have responded to calls from the local press and ITV Anglia, and are planning their approach to the Appeal Hearing with Lib Dem Councillor for Marconi Ward Graham Pooley.