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?
Hythe computer expert and businessman Darren Briddock has spoken out against plans to fly nearly 100 head teachers from Kent to America for a fact-finding trip in term time to study "the application of the computer age in transforming the ways teachers teach and children learn".
Paul Rowen (Rochdale, LDem)
Springvale Councillor Richard Whitehouse contacted Wolverhampton City Highways concerning the dangerous condition of a retaining wall on the Birmingham New Road. It has now been repaired.
Springvale Focus Team member Sandra Terry reports that an extra stump has been put in the footpath near the Spa shop on the Birmingham New Road to help stop cars driving down the path.
In order to encourage the wider uptake of Green Education in schools a working group has been formed under the leadership of Liberal Democrat Cllr. Ken Howard, chairman of the Environmental Overview & Scrutiny Committee at Woking Borough Council. The committee has already agreed for WBC officers to construct a working plan to support Woking schools in delivering Green Education, hopefully with the involvement of the Council's partner organisations.
Robin Lawrence, Chair of Wolverhampton South West Liberal Democrats, on hearing of our local MP's support for Real Nappy Week, said "I was delighted to read that Wolverhampton South West's MP Rob Marris has decided to support the Liberal Democrat campaign to promote the use of reusable nappies in the city as launched in our April 2005 Park Ward Focus. I see it as my duty to prevent waste, save money and reduce nappy rash, for my two cloth-nappy-wearing boys and so I am therefore an enthusiastic promoter of the real alternative to disposables."
