The Labour Government has doubled the housing targets for Stockport, while weakening the protections for green belt. As a result, developers are targeting building on our green spaces first; this means that the houses are less affordable, less accessible, and in the wrong places for people struggling to get on the housing market.
On average, an “affordable house” in the villages outside Stockport, by the Government's definition, still costs £323,8231. The average cost of an affordable house in Stockport town centre is just £167,5132. Only one of those is within reach for the vast majority of first-time buyers.
That's why we're calling on the Government to change its approach and provide new housing that communities want. That means social and affordable housing. That means housing on brownfield sites first. And it means building the GPs, schools and transport links that make local people's lives better, not put an added strain on the system.
If you think that the UK should be building more truly affordable housing, with better schools and healthcare, and with the community being part of the process, sign our petition.
Do you believe the Government should give local residents more say in the planning process, to guarantee brownfield development first, and to ensure that schools and GPs must be an essential part of any large development?
Hazel Grove MP Lisa Smart recently visited Manchester Airport to talk to airport bosses about improving transport to work for the hundreds of residents in her constituency who work at the site.
A major campaign by the Manchester Evening News to help keep children in school when they've been forced to move by homelessness has been backed by local MP Lisa Smart.
MP Lisa Smart has written to major adoption charities from across the UK to get extra support for her campaign to deliver fairer adoption support for self-employed people.
Local MP Lisa Smart has been out on the doorsteps this week, but this time it was helping out the local Royal Mail with one of their rounds, as she saw round the sorting office, and got a feel for their work.
Chadkirk Chapel’s Annual Well Dressing, this year honoured the women who worked the land during the First and Second World War, with Hazel Grove MP Lisa Smart paying tribute to the Women’s Land Army, and celebrating former Land Girl Jean Proctor MBE.
Hazel Grove MP Lisa Smart has been taken out for a walk along the GM ringway, by some of the volunteers who maintain the 200 mile long walking route around Greater Manchester.