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.
Find our more about the local plan on our frequently asked questions page.
Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?
A new single equality body for England, Wales and Scotland comes into effect on 1 October, replacing three long-standing commissions. The Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) will look after age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation. The new organisation will also have a duty to promote and uphold the Human Rights Act.Its chair is Trevor Phillips from the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).
A new service has begun to help people with mobility problems visit one Leicester library.
A care provider has been fined £15,000 for breaking health and safety laws following the death of a disabled woman who had been left alone in a bath. Lilia Korzun, 48, who needed 24-hour care, died at a sheltered bungalow in Wednesbury, West Midlands, in 2004.
It was once known as the Sacred Disease. Its sufferers were revered and stigmatised in equal measure for their supposedly divinely ordained condition. Julius Caesar, Peter the Great, and Byron are just a few of the best known historical figures to have had epilepsy.
We now have a new Prime Minister - although no one not even Labour Party members had any say in the matter. What though if anything will change? Gordon has trailed some changes in the way Government works -but will any policies change or will it just be more of the same? On policy Gordon says he wants to tackle the NHS, Crime and Housing, but where has he been for the last 10 years? The answer is that he has been at the centre of Government as Blair's number two and controller of the purse strings.
Councillors were asked to make a decision on the future of our community halls, even though detailed cost, usage and maintenance figures were not provided to them and one of the largest halls in the borough, Keys Hall in Warley, is still under threat of closure by the Conservative administration.
