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?
Dari Taylor MP has joined Ingleby Barwick Independent councillors in calling for Egglescliffe School to be moved into Preston Park. Eaglescliffe residents are furious. Councillors John Fletcher, Alan Lewis and Maureen Rigg have been inundated with emails, phone calls and personal calls from people complaining about it.
Tim Farron has reacted to a report by the Cancer Tsar, Professor Mike Richard, which shows that Britain is behind the rest of Europe when it comes to cancer survival rates. Tim believes that the new report emphasises the need for Kendal's cancer unit to be built urgently.
Local MP Tim Farron has today congratulated Kendal College for securing over £1m of funding for a new arts campus on Wildman Street. Tim has joined college principal Graham Wilkinson in lobbying the North West Development Agency over the last few months for the release of these funds.
Following tributes paid to the Cumbrian emergency services by Prince Charles for their rescue efforts during the recent floods South Lakeland MP Tim Farron has called on the Government to deliver much needed financial support to Mountain Rescue teams after thousands of pounds worth of equipment was destroyed during rescue operations during last weeks floods.
Tim Farron has put the Environment Agency on the spot over claims that water levels in Lake Windermere were kept artificially high before the floods of 19 November.
Mayor of Bedford Borough Dave Hodgson has announced the launch of the Council's Climate Change fund, a radical move to fund projects which will cut CO2 emissions in the Borough and protect the environment. The fund, which will be open to applications early in the new year, will be launched with an initial £100,000, with the scheme set to grow in future years. It will help organisations including schools, community groups and the council itself undertake capital projects which will have a real impact on protecting the local and wider environment.