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?
Commenting on the Labour Group's call for Bedford Borough Council to re-affirm its opposition to the dumping of nuclear waste in the same week that the Labour Government gave the go-ahead for a new wave of nuclear power stations in the UK, Liberal Democrat Group Leader Michael Headley said:
Dundee East Liberal Democrat parliamentary spokesperson Dr Clive Sneddon has today (Friday 19th January) warned that we have little time left in which to bring our carbon emissions under control.
A campaign has begun to bring back passenger services to the Leicester to Burton railway line to help reduce congestion.
Charges to use Saffron Lane Sports Centre grounds for football match day parking have been cut in a move to encourage more people to use it.
Commenting on the Government's announcement of a consultation on the closure of the two HM Revenue and Customs offices in Chesterfield, Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield said:
Commenting on the flat cash settlement for the Arts in the forthcoming comprehensive spending review that Labour MPs are now discussing in Westminster, Liberal Democrat Arts and Culture Spokesman Paul Holmes MP said: "This is a return to the boom and bust funding of the 1980s that the Labour Government promised would not happen again.
