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?
The European Parliament has come to an agreement with the European Council on a deal that will significantly cut the cost of mobile roaming SMS (texting) and data charges from the 1st July 2009.
St Peter's campaigner, Zahid Shah, has joined Councillor Claire Darke in the campaign to have every road and street equipped with a full set of street name plates. Zahid said, "Even though many drivers now have sat nav it is still important that all our roads should be clearly identifiable. Name plates that are covered in graffiti degrade the neighbourhood and must be cleaned and kept clean."
Since opening in two rooms of a house in 1976, Probus Surgery has come a long way and now provides nationally acclaimed surgical care to thousands of people every year.
Assaults in British prisons occur on average more than once every half hour, according to research by Liberal Democrat Justice Spokesman Paul Holmes MP
A senior Liberal Democrat has criticised the Conservative Party's Green Paper on housing for failing to address issues affecting house building locally.
Local Lib Dem campaigner Gary Fuller, during a recent walk through streets in the West End of Folkestone between the Town Centre and Sandgate, was saddened to discover that an area filled with some of the most beautifully pristine properties in the town is blighted by the failure of Kent Highways to act on Potholes.