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?
Ed Davey MP gave the Stop Homophobic Bullying campaign a welcome boost at a meeting at Leeds University today. Members of the university Liberal Democrat Society joined Ed Davey on the union steps to officially launch their part of the campaign, unveiling posters revealing the Lib Dem Youth & Students campaign slogan, "Homophobia is Gay."
Shepway Council, in partnership with Kent County Council and the Creative Foundation, are consulting on a series of proposed improvements to Tontine Street.
Following the news this evening that Sir Menzies Campbell has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, PPS to Sir Menzies has issued the following statement:
Bedford Borough Liberal Democrats set out their desire for an open and honest debate on Britain's position in Europe at a meeting of the Full Council on Wednesday night. On a night when a motion calling for a referendum on the narrow technical issue of the EU Reform Treaty was unsuccessful, Liberal Democrats outlined their desire to see the debate opened up and called for a referendum on whether Britain should remain a Member of the European Union.
LIBERAL Democrats in the Devizes Constituency have warned that a proposal by the government to take away cash reserves that local schools have built up will damage children's education.
The Liberal Democrats have called for new Government plans to take £225million out of the cash reserves of up to 20,000 English schools to be scrapped. In the first year this will be based on cash surpluses in schools at 31st March 2006, irrespective of whether the schools have since spent the money. The Liberal Democrats have called for the plan to be scrapped, arguing it:
