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 campaigner Neil Matthews has written to Hythe Town Council to ask that the Christmas decorations that are still up in Hythe High Street in MARCH are taken down.
Today's Essex Chronicle reports:- Social services left children in the care of their mother, despite knowing she was sharing her home with a string of abusive partners and sex offenders. The shocking revelation comes as Ofsted published reasons behind its 'inadequate' rating of Essex County Council's safeguarding children services. Full story in the newspaper:- http://is.gd/n3CC. The Lib Dems have attacked the Conservative-run authority for being more concerned about its PR image than basic services. [Read more.....]
Liberal Democrat member Walker Darke has been elected as one of the two Youth Councillors for Wolverhampton South West in Wolverhampton's Youth Elections. There was a total of 15 candidates for the two places.
Following the news that Tory Cllr Stuart Pawson has tendered his resignation, the Rossendale LibDems have welcomed this announcement as a sensible outcome to what was an increasingly disturbing trend of absenteeism by this elected member.
A TRURO COUPLE CALL FOR HELP TO FIND AFFORDABLE LOCAL HOUSING
A local community project aims to achieve closer links between local schools, the Asian community and rugby league in Rochdale.