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 Finchley and Golders Green Planning Sub Committee was rather mundane on Wednesday night. Business was completed in half an hour. Is this the effect of the recession? Three people sat in the public gallery. On the way out I noticed two piles of agenda and committee papers; seventy sets in all, lying unused on a table.
Surrey's shocking one start rating is a wake up call to start getting things right" said Sue Doughty in response to today's report that Surrey has now become a one star council.
Bedford Borough Lib Dems are sounding the alarm bells after the latest report on the proposed East West Railway between East Anglia and Central England has left Bedford in real jeopardy of being bypassed by the route altogether.
I'd like to thank Kent Highways for suggesting on February 26th that I report the faults I'd observed. They will be pleased to know that I reported them on February 18th using their online system. Given their response to the streetlights issue, I think it's pertinent to mention that the bus stop in that report wasn't fixed by the time the Herald went to print eight days later.
BBC Radio WM's morning news bulletins (Thursday 5th March 2009) lead with their reports about the neglect of the former Farndale school as first revealed in a St Peter's Ward Focus. Reporter Andy Silk interviewed St Peter's campaigner, Zahid Shah, who explained how the school had closed about five years ago and sold to a developer over two years ago. The developer has left the site totally insecure and Zahid told Andy Silk how boarding over the doors had been removed by vandals or squatters and that there was a fresh heap of drug needles left lying around.