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?
Lord Lee of Trafford has introduced the "Immigration (Discharged Gurkhas) Bill 2008" into the House of Lords where it received its first reading on the 18th March. Full details of the bill in support of the Gurkha Justice campaign can be found at www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldbills/043/08043.1-i.html
Rochdale council look set to approve plans put forward by the Liberal Democrats to scrap parking charges for disabled residents on council car parks across the borough. They will also announce that they are set to double the number of car parking spaces available to disabled people.
Local news 13-3-08
At this week's Prime Minister's Question Time the Lib Dem MP for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland, challenged the Prime Minister on the policy of deporting people to Iran who are likely to meet harsh treatment when they arrive there due to their sexual orientation, religious beliefs or other qualities.
Jill Sutcliffe and Councillor Ann Haigh have received many complaints about parking in in Scotland Road and Amberley Road.
With the government planning mass releases of prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons they are highlighting the complete failure of the system to rehabilitate and retrain prisoners before their release. It is a shocking reality that more people come out of prison with a drug problem than go into prison with a drug problem. Is this what we pay our taxes for?