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?
Cornwall's five-strong team of Liberal Democrat MPs today (Wednesday) slammed Royal Mail plans to introduce 'zonal pricing', which will see the cost of bulk business mail to Cornwall rise, to cut prices in urban areas.
Commenting about the threats of diversion of Arts and Heritage funding to the Olympics, Lib Dem Arts and Heritage Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said:
Commenting about the threats of diversion of Arts and Heritage funding to the Olympics, Lib Dem Arts and Heritage Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said:
The government has more questions to answer over what information was given to the OECD investigators examining the controversial al Yamamah deal, Liberal Democrat Leader Menzies Campbell has said. He was speaking after the Attorney General denied that he had ordered information to be concealed from the OECD and after the Serious Fraud Office said that it made the decisions about what to reveal 'having regard to the need to protect national security.'
The Liberal Democrats on the Regional Assembly gave a cautious welcome today to the announcement that the East of England Plan may not be finalised for several more months
Surrey Liberal Democrats have launched an online petition to improve the state of the County's roads.
