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?
The Liberal Democrats have launched their Real Women paper. The paper includes proposals to: make employers check for pay discrimination so that women get the money they deserve, to provide 20 hours per week free childcare, to allow everyone to request flexible working patterns and to inject some realism into the media's portrayal of women, instead of the suggestion that nothing less than perfection will do.
Southeastern have announced that on 7 September, high-speed services from St Pancras to Ebbsfleet and Ashford will also serve Dover Priory, Canterbury West, Ramsgate, Folkestone Central and Folkestone West.
Today Liberal Democrat M.P. Jo Swinson launches the Real Women paper - aiming to inject some realism into the portrayal of women in the media and Heather Kidd welcomed this positive proposal.
A pioneering Affordable Housing Policy, developed by South Shropshire District Council whilst under the leadership of Cllr Heather Kidd, was adopted for the whole of the County as official policy at the Council meeting on July 16th.
Responding to a recent article by Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Dr Vince Cable in Mail Online that we must make better use economically of people past retirement age, Cllr Peter Hirst Parliamentary Spokesperson for Congleton agrees
Responding to a recent article by Liberal Democrat Shadow Chancellor Dr Vince Cable in Mail Online that we must make better use economically of people past retirement age, Cllr Peter Hirst Parliamentary Spokesperson for Congleton agrees