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Wed 27th May 2009
West Berkshire Council Liberal Democrats are urging all residents to respond to the Council's consultation on the distribution of 10,500 new homes allocated to the District in the South East Plan. The consultation relates to the document Options for the Future - West Berkshire Core Strategy which proposes locating 75% of the new homes in and around the major settlements of Newbury, Thatcham and the western part of Reading, and 20% in seven "Rural Service Centres", i.e. Burghfield Common, Hungerford, Lambourn, Mortimer, Pangbourne and Theale. It also presents options on strategic sites where major development will be concentrated.
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Read "Lib Dems Urge Residents to Respond to Consultation on New Housing - If It Ever Gets Underway" in full (196 words).
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Mon 18th May 2009
Residents are becoming increasingly angry at the Conservatives lackadaisical attitude to maintaining West Berkshires highways. The district's road surfaces are now turning into a slalom course with vehicles steering cautiously to avoid being caught up in dangerous holes and troughs. Why are we repeatedly paying out thousands of pounds for patching the roads, surely this cannot be a cost effective or economical way of improving our road network?
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Read "Resurfacing the Roads in West Berkshire? " in full (251 words).
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Thu 12th Feb 2009
West Berkshire residents struggling to pay mortgages or facing unemployment will be furious to find they are faced with an average £46 increase on their council tax bill this year, according to Lib Dem Finance spokesperson David Rendel. The 3.9% increase announced yesterday is well above inflation now and within a few months inflation is expected to tumble towards zero.
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Read "Rendel blasts 'above inflation' council tax rise " in full (243 words).
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Mon 19th Jan 2009
The Liberal Democrats have learned that the Council's waste contractor, Veolia, is using Partially Segregated Recovery Vehicles (PSRVs) on three of its eight collection routes in West Berkshire. Use of these vehicles involves mixing together and compacting the various types of waste material set out by householders for recycling, in contrast to vehicles used on the other five routes where the different types of recyclables are kept separate. The usual excuse is being trotted out again: the amount of waste set out for recycling has exceeded all expectations and the Contractor has insufficient capacity to the meet this demand.
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Read "Come clean on mixed waste - Lib Dems" in full (383 words).
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Mon 15th Dec 2008
Vulnerable residents could be left out in the cold this winter after crucial measures to help were delayed by Tory Councillors. An urgent raft of measures designed to ease the pressure on West Berkshire people struggling financially were deferred at Thursday night's meeting of full Council.
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Read ""Tories delay crucial credit crisis aid" - Macro " in full (172 words).
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"On issue after issue, the Liberal Democrats have led the fight for real change while the Conservatives lagged behind. On the economy, on the environment and now on the real reform of politics, it is the Lib Dems that are offering something different. "
April Pond, Liberal Democrat candidate for the Norwich North by-election
www.norwichlibdems.org.uk - 21 June
"I believe that my position as an MP between now and the next election is untenable. "
Labour MP Ian Gibson
Resigning as MP for Norwich North - 6 June. See www.norwichlibdems.org.uk for Norwich North by-election news.
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