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?
Liberal Democrat PPC Tania Exley-Moore joined in the call for all public bodies, to follow a Code of Conduct to ensure that during the recession families are not bankrupted unnecessarily.
A MUCH-TOUTED new plan to ease Windsor's parking problems was expected to get the go-ahead from top councillors last night - despite a growing backlash.
A package of new and revised bus services - many taking in St Mark's Hospital in Maidenhead for the first time - takes to the borough's roads at the beginning of next month.
The first budget of the unitary Bedford Borough Council is set to include a raft of proposals to meet residents' priorities including an additional £1 million for road and footpath repairs and a freeze on short-stay car park charges, thanks to the Liberal Democrats. The Borough's council tax increase will be remain at the proposed low level of 0.9%, with the Lib Dems' package of vital initiatives and funding boosts for essential services to be paid for by cutting back spending on council PR and ceremonial events and releasing unused council reserves.
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Barrack Obama's inauguration as President of the United States has obviously been the biggest news this week - worldwide. For a black man to become President of the most powerful democracy in the world when sixty years ago his father would have been refused service in a café in Washington is progress indeed. All of us I'm sure wish him well in what is a most difficult task.