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?
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has condemend United Utilities after the announcement that they still plan to introduce a controversial 'rain tax' on faith groups and charitable organisations over the next ten years.
In my last blog I bemoaned the lack of interest shown in the Town Hall by local residents. Well I am well and truly eating my words.
On the eve of the prestigious Seafood & Wine Festival, Nick Perry, the Liberal Democrat parliamentary campaigner for Hastings & Rye, has been contacted with the stark message that Hastings fishermen have no more cod until January 2010.
Bedford Borough Council last night pulled out of the Bedfordshire Energy and Recycling Project, signalling the end of the plans of the former Conservative County Council to build an expensive, environmentally harmful incinerator.
With the Liberal Democrat Conference about to start Nick Clegg has written to Wolverhampton Liberal Democrats.
In a resolution sponsored by Liberal Democrat MEPs, the European Parliament has voted by a large majority to condemn new anti-gay legislation in Lithuania. The British Tories, however, abstained in the vote, showing their hypocrisy regarding their attitude to the gay community.