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
National News
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
Oxford Cuts Ties With Tories Over Racism Row
Oxford University has withdrawn its name from one of its oldest societies after a row over a racist joke.
1 Sep 2009