John campaigns to 'Save The Pier!'
John Tunbridge says that "Despite spin to the contrary, the Pier is NOT in imminent danger of collapse!"
3 Dec 2009
Save our green belt
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.
Find our more about the local plan on our frequently asked questions page.
Save our green belt
Do you agree with us that the green belt needs to be preserved, brownfield sites prioritised, and schools, transport, and GP places guaranteed?
Conservative Park & Ride is Failure
As predicted by some of their own councillors and the Lib Dems, Windsor Conservatives' mini Park and Ride at Windsor Racecourse is proving a complete flop with visitors to Windsor. Only 50 people a day are using the the shuttle bus into Windsor with the result that the buses are often travelling empty, whilst on average there are 2 passengers per per bus.
3 Dec 2009
NHS - Care, or Tax burden?
Sue Hayter talks in her letter (EADT 26/11/09) of the need for equality in assessing care needs. This is fine in principle and the NHS Continuing Healthcare programme attempts to address the problems, but the reference to supporting people with acute needs is the nub of the problem in the NHS. The general emphasis on specialist acute care provision seems at the heart of the hospital closure programme. Acute care is the most expensive care, and we seem to be failing to give sufficient priority to prevention and detection with long waits still taking place for hip operations which demobilise people. The poor quality of our cancer detection and treatment compared to Europe has recently been highlighted, and the post code lottery regarding successful treatment exposed.
DC
3 Dec 2009
SURREY - One of 8 councils providing poor care for the elderly
A report from the Care Quality Commission says 4,000 out of the 24,000 care homes in his country are deficient. It means that 80,000 elderly people are getting substandard care. Over 400 were rated poor while another 3,500 were rated "adequate" (evidently code for inadequate,)
3 Dec 2009
Holmes attacks Government on life-threatening cuts to Warm Front budget
Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield today wrote to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling to express his urgent concern about the proposed cuts to the Warm Front Scheme budget for 2010.
3 Dec 2009
Host of Awards for Gurkha Justice Campaign & Joanna Lumley [Updated Dec 2010]
One of the proudest experiences of my life has been my involvement in the Gurkha Justice Campaign through to May this year when we finally won our aim - a fair deal for Gurkhas to settle in the UK. Over the past few weeks, the campaign, and star figurehead Joanna Lumley, has picked up a number of awards for its work, including:
3 Dec 2009