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?
Thanks to the many residents who signed petition forms, Lib Dem Councillor and local resident Philip Goldenberg was able to persuade last week's Local Committee to bring forward the safety audit of the dreadful junction of White Rose Lane and Heathside Crescent.
Surrey Liberal Democrats have welcomed the lifting of the County's freeze on Youth Service recruitment, highlighted in recent months by County Councillor Diana Smith Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Schools and Learning.
The schools admission process is a long haul for parents, with applications made in the autumn and places only now being offered for this coming September, 2008. At the same time Surrey County Council has been going through the equally long process of deciding how school places will be allocated for September 2009.
MPs are criticising the "lax standards" of government departments in protecting personal information. A report, from the Joint Committee on Human Rights, comes as details, released through the Freedom of Information Act, have revealed how many of those departments lack basic systems to comply with the Data Protection Act. A survey of 14 departments by the British Computer Society, published today, revealed that none of them had statistics of how many errors were on their database, nor had a budget to correct them.
Health inequality as measured by life expectancy and infant mortality has got worse since Labour came to power, a government report said today. Babies born to poor families now have a 17% higher than average chance of dying, compared to a 13% higher than average chance 10 years ago. And the life expectancy of people living in poverty has fallen further behind the average, particularly for women since around Labour's election.
At a special County Council meeting on Thursday 13th March Lib Dem Councillors questioned the commitment of both Kent County Council; and the government to tackling road flooding in in Kent. Areas of Shepway have been particularly hit with flash flooding in recent years.