Ringing the changes
Leading Lib Dem campaigner, David Jack, has launched a campaign to end the miss use of telephone boxes in the Heathtown area.
28 Sep 2005
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 Leadership debacle continues
Michael Howard, the current Conservative Leader has suffered a defeat by the grassroots of the party to reform the way the new Leader will be selected. Having failed to win the two-thirds majority needed for change, the leadership contest will be held under the current rules, with MPs choosing two candidates to go to a vote of all Conservative members, a move that could prolong the contest until Christmas or beyond.
28 Sep 2005
New school for Epping is one step closer
A new secondary school for Epping and the surrounding area is one step closer after district councillors gave outline planning permission in July.
28 Sep 2005
Lib Dems call for Rejection of Capel as Waste Treatment Site
Surrey's Liberal Democrat County Councillors have reacted strongly to the suggestion by Surrey County Council's Executive that the Clockhouse Brickworks in Capel be the preferred site for a large-scale waste treatment plant.
27 Sep 2005
Local Liberal Democrat MP hits out at the 6,000 deaths a day caused by poor sanitation
Speaking at the World Toilet Summit in Belfast, Birmingham Yardley Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming has hit out at the 6,000 deaths a day caused by poor sanitation Mr. Hemming said "The government like to look for complex solutions to simple problems. Half of the children that die in the developing world die from diarrhoeal diseases. That is around 6,000 children a day dying from entirely preventable diseases."
27 Sep 2005
Tony Blair's speech is rhetoric not what people want - Kennedy
Liberal Democrat Leader Charles Kennedy has slammed Tony Blair's speech as 'not what people want'. Blair has told Labour's conference there must be further reforms to public services so choice is not just the preserve of the wealthy. He vowed to modernise New Labour, saying every time he had announced reforms he wished he had gone further.
27 Sep 2005
