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?
Gary Fuller has contacted Shepway District Council on behalf of local resident John Bird to see what can be done to sort out the area of the Parade Steps, which lead from the Parade down to the Harbour area in Folkestone.
Liberal Democrat Councillors have expressed their total opposition to proposals made by the Borough Council for three areas of major new housing development in Brickhill. Green fields around Brickhill could be set to disappear under proposals by Bedford Borough Council to submit council land for residential development. Large areas of green fields at Freemans Common and Jackmans Farm have been identified as land owned by the Council which is suitable for development before 2021. The resulting building schemes could see hundreds more homes being built.
Having axed the chief executive and Town Clerk posts at the City Council at considerable cost to the Leicester taxpayer, Labour are now employing more consultants to draw up a new Council management structure.
Rochdale MP Paul Rowen has called the decision to rebrand Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust to the name NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale a "complete waste of money". He went further and claimed that this was all about "vanity". He said that recent examples of 'rebranding' have cost PCTs up to £15,000!
Depressed Labour activists are rumoured to have changed the words of Labour's adopted election anthem in 1997, substituting 'get worse' for 'get better'. The recent loss of the Glasgow by election to the SNP could of course be written off as a one off by election spectacular -except that it is not a one off. Labour has now defended 3 rock solid majorities in Parliamentary by elections since the 2005 General Election and they have lost every one. Dunfermline to the Liberal Democrats, Crewe to the Conservatives and Glasgow to the SNP.
Liberal Democrats in Shepway have given their strong backing to ambitious calls by Nick Clegg MP for Britain to become self-sufficient in energy.