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?
Local Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Nigel Quinton for Hitchin & Harpenden and Sandy Walkington for St Albans joined senior Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster yesterday for a private meeting with FCC top management, Mary Grant and Neal Lawson.
Liberal Democrat Councillor David Foster, Executive Member for Adult Social Care has joined with colleagues in other authorities asking for an urgent review of the Bill going through parliament at the moment giving free Home Care to those with most critical needs.
Commenting on George Osborne's speech in which he set out eight benchmarks against which voters would be able to judge a Tory government's success on the economy, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Candidate said:
Local Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Sandy Walkington for St Albans and Nigel Quinton for Hitchin & Harpenden joined senior Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster yesterday for a private meeting with FCC top management, Mary Grant and Neal Lawson.
"Gordon Brown was one of very few with the power to put the brakes on Tony Blair," said the Liberal Democrat Shadow Foreign Secretary.
Blackburn with Darwen Council is set carry out vital improvement works to a stretch of Roman Road at Grimehills Bridge.