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?
Dundee Liberal Democrats today (Thursday 25th January) said that David Cameron's recent visit to Scotland highlighted the decline of the Scottish Conservative Party and said the Tories were irrelevant in terms of the forthcoming elections, both in Dundee and across Scotland.
It has come to our attention that some wheelie bins left out the evening before bin collection day are being wheeled away during the early hours of the morning in other parts of the city - This could easily spread to Belgrave.
Commenting ahead of the Protecting and Preserving our Heritage debate in the House of Commons today, Liberal Democrat Arts and Heritage Spokesperson, Paul Holmes MP said:
The reality of Congestion Charging will be more of reality after Friday, when Leader of Rochdale Borough Council will discuss it at a meeting of AGMA (Association of Greater Manchester Authorities) The idea of Congestion Charging has been inevitable since the announcement of the partial successful bid to deliver the Metrolink to Rochdale. Government Bosses then announced that Greater Manchester could bid for a £400 Million slice of the Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) to complete the spur into places like Rochdale Town Centre.
Campaigners have lost an appeal to make a bowel cancer drug widely available on the NHS. Charities Cancer backup and Bowel Cancer UK appealed against a decision by the health watchdog to reject the drug Erbitux (cetuximab) for use on the NHS. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) ruled last August that Erbitux was not cost-effective.
Eight out of ten of people support a law change to allow doctors to actively end the lives of terminally ill patients who want to die, a poll shows. However only 60% supported doctors prescribing, but not administering, drugs someone could use to end their own life. The British Social Attitudes report surveyed 3,000 people.
