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?
Residents in Castleton are looking forward to enjoying a safer summer thanks to new alleygates that have been installed to the end of their streets by Rochdale Borough Council, locking criminals out and happiness in.
Anyone wanting to know what is wrong with politics needs only to have been at Barnet House on Thursday. I attended as a member of the spanking new committee named Business Management Overview and Scrutiny Sub Committee. Nothing else was new. The membership of the committee had changed slightly.
Liberal Democrats in Hinckley and Bosworth have called for disgraced Bosworth MP David Tredinnick to resign immediately following his second breach of House of Commons rules.
Commenting on the release of a ministerial statement on the rail accident at Grayrigg this morning, local MP Tim Farron said:
Brentwood & Ongar's Lib Dem Parliamentary Candidate, Cllr David Kendall has proposed an "electoral covenant" between candidates and voters in response to the recent scandal over MP's expenses.
Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesman for Bosworth, Michael Mullaney, has pledged his support for Vote Cruelty Free, a new non-partisan coalition of animal protection organisations working to put animals on the political agenda.