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?
Epsom & Ewell borough council will not prepare any action plan to deal with air pollution levels in Ewell High Street "until we receive any dire problems", according to the Chairman of their Social Committee, answering a formal question at a meeting of the borough council on Tuesday 22nd July.
Parliamentary Candidate Nigel Quinton is appalled at the news that the north of the constituency is to lose four post offices.
A new web site designed to act as a single resource to find events happening in and near the Cheriton and Morehall areas of Folkestone has been launched by local Councillor Tim Prater. The site - www.cheritonevents.org.uk - offers FREE listings of events open to Cheriton and Morehall residents, including for those under 18.
Cheriton Councillor Tim Prater has written to the East Kent Public Rights of Way Office to request that they take action to clear an overgrown footpath. The path which runs from Valebrook Close in Cheriton, Folkestone is now entirely blocked due to being overgrown with plants and weeds.
At last its official! After months of denying it, Chancellor Alistair Darling MP last week admitted that we were in recession. In doing so he was at last acknowledging what the rest of us already know. With soaring fuel and food inflation modern families are feeling the pinch and are expecting the Government to do something about it.
The Liberal Democrat groups in Rochdale, Oldham, Manchester and Salford have all agreed to support a binding Greater Manchester wide referendum to be held on the TIF bid and congestion charge. The last opinion poll showed that 86% of Greater Manchester residents supported a referendum.