The Liberal Democrats will today present a 55,000-signature petition to the Prime Minister calling on the Government to put an end to the 32 million printer cartridges that are sent to landfill or incineration every year.
Commenting on a damning NAO report on New Deal for Communities, Edward Davey MP, Liberal Democrat Local Government spokesman, said:
Sudell Liberal Democrat campaigner Roy Davies has led the successful campaign against the proposed chip shop in Olive Lane, Darwen.
Epsom & Ewell Liberal Democrats discovered on 29th January 2004 that a Developer was marketing plots of land in Banstead Road, East Ewell, on the Internet. They were advertised as suitable for house building, despite the fact that the site lies in the metropolitan Green Belt.
Plans to reduce the level of council tax in the borough by 4% were kicked into touch last week following the decision to abandon Lib Dem plans to cut the council tax level, bring back a number of key services and increase the amount of affordable housing in the borough.
Councillor Janet Maines, Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council, commenting on the County Council budget said, "I welcome the single figure increase in the Council tax for Surrey residents, which is good news for people on fixed incomes including pensioners. But I have opposed the budget because the Conservative administration at County Hall has not gone far enough to reduce bureaucracy and inefficiency within the Council. The base budget has not been examined in detail as was agreed by the Council one year ago. A number of multi-million pound contracts are not being adequately controlled by the Council. Although the Council is now making a welcome start to introduce cost-saving preventative measures such as key worker housing and energy efficiency promoted by the Liberal Democrats, it has been slow to do so."
