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?
Many DELGA supporters will have seen reports that an experimental HIV vaccine has for the first time cut the risk of infection. DELGA Chair Jen Yockney says, "the reports offer a brighter hope for tackling HIV in the future but remind us of the need for work on sexual health now. As budgets are being cut in so many sectors, cutting sexual health spending today is a false economy that stores up far bigger problems for the future."
Heather Kidd has welcomed the adoption today of a European Parliament resolution today addressing the crisis in the dairy sector. The resolution called for a range of measures to be taken forward to help dairy farmers, many of whom have seen the price of their milk drop dramatically in recent months.
After all the shameful exposures of M.P.'s expense excesses The Times newspaper has revealed that dozens of Conservative parliamentary candidates are actually working as paid lobbyists for businesses with vested interests.
Chinese Liberal Democrats participated in their Party's Federal Conference in Bournemouth this year and celebrated with a bang. On Monday 21st September, they held their 3rd birthday dinner at the Ocean Palace Restaurant with special guests Lord Paddy Ashdown and Michael Moore MP (Shadow International Development Secretary).
In a paper brought to the Conservative council cabinet at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead, the Conservatives revealed plans to increase parking charges in Windsor by up to 13% in some cases, far more than inflation, in another Tory Stealth Tax initiative. Meanwhile at the other end of the Borough prices in Maidenhead car parks will not generally rise at all.
Park Ward Liberal Democrats have started to deliver their September - October Focus to some 5000 homes in the Ward. There is a PDF version to be found in the 2009 file of the Park Ward section of the Download area of this site.