LIB DEMS REVEAL COST OF THEFTS FROM POLICE STATIONS
Thousands of pounds worth of equipment have been stolen from police stations in the North East, the Liberal Democrats can reveal.
2 Sep 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?
Mass opposition for traveller plan
A GROUP of councillors have said they will oppose plans to allow a traveller to keep his home on green belt land in Pilgrims Hatch.
2 Sep 2009
Council praised on efforts to tackle recession
Rochdale Council has been praised in the recent audit commission report that looks at how local councils are dealing with the recession.
2 Sep 2009
Conservatives plough more cash into troubled Banking On Essex project
Essex taxpayers are being asked to cough up another £200,000 to fund 'research' into the Conservative county council's Banking on Essex project, despite significant sums of money and hundreds of hours of council staff time already invested in the scheme.
1 Sep 2009
Mid Sussex Council needs to stop giving small scale housing developers a free ride
New housing sites can often occur when larger gardens or other small sites are redeveloped, these "windfall" housing sites provide several hundred new houses a year, yet our Conservative District Council has failed to ensure developers of these sites pay any contribution to local infrastructure. Normally new housing developments are required to contribute towards the cost of new community infrastructure (known as s106 contributions) to help pay for improvements to roads, schools, libraries, community facilities and social housing. Yet Mid Sussex currently excludes new developments of under 15 houses of having to contribute towards new social housing, and developments of five or less houses do not have to make any contribution to local infrastructure (unlike some other local councils). This gives an incentive to developers to redevelop single back gardens such as Folders Lane in Burgess Hill with piece meal development that avoids them having to make any contribution - despite providing dwellings in this road
1 Sep 2009