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?
The new Labour government’s first budget has been given a cautious welcome by the Liberal Democrats leading Stockport Council.
In response to the autumn budget the Harrow LibDems say that local social care is being left behind.
Norwich City Council is planning to upgrade the children’s playground on Enfield Road.
Liberal Democrats in York have hit out after the Government’s Budget announcement effectively left the Haxby Station project ‘in limbo.’
As I write, I am reviewing the recently published update to our area’s Local Plan. This covers how development in our area will be coordinated out to 2040. It is the penultimate step in a process which started in 2015 and will conclude with review by a
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