Fawdon councillors and local residents are dismayed that the restaurant development on the site of the former Trap public house on Kenton Road will go ahead after a revised planning application had to be accepted. The council refused the first application in February on grounds that it was too big and out of character for the area.
Shepway Civic Centre and their housing offices in Shorncliffe Road will close at 4pm on Friday 24 December and re-open at 8.30am on Tuesday 4 January.
In the Lords at 9.49 pm on Monday 21st December, Royal Assent was notified to the Identity Documents Act. All existing ID cards...
ALTER is preparing a response to the Treasury Select Committee's invitation for evidence on the effectiveness of the current tax system. Brian Hodgkinson, author of The New Model of the Economy, has drafted a 3000-word Memorandum to be sent to MPs on the Committee in January.
A "Ten Point Plan" prepared for the Lib Dem Tax Commission in 2006 and largely incorporated in the subsequent policy papers endorsed by Party Conference is being dusted off for recycling, as ALTER's New Year Offer to Government. It will form the basis for a Discussion Paper being prepared in response to a request from HM Treasury Property Tax officials for ideas on how a land value tax might be introduced in Britain in current political and economic circumstances. ALTER Chair Dr Tony Vickers has drafted the paper Transitional Issues for the all-party Coalition for Economic Justice (CEJ) to consider over the New Year break.
The abolition of identity cards was confirmed yesterday (21 Dec 2010), when the Identity Documents Bill was granted Royal Assent. Liberal Democrats have consistently campaigned against ID cards, a scheme introduced by the previous Labour Government.