Hands off our Green Belt – Sign the Petition

The local Lib Dem team across Bury are campaigning to save our precious ‘Green Belt’ land from development.

60% of Bury is green belt land. This is under threat because Greater Manchester Councils are considering proposals to provide the land to build up to 225,000 new houses over the next 25 years.

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Across Bury, developers have already proposed 70 sites with over 12,000 new homes. Most of these sites propose building on the green belt land that surrounds our towns and communities. More details of the proposals here.

We support the need for new homes, but NOT on the green belt. Greater Manchester has significant amounts of ‘brown field’ sites that should be used first for new housing. We particularly support the need the right types of new homes, such as more affordable homes.

On 28 October 2016 Greater Manchester Council Leaders will meet to decide which land they propose should be built on. Proposals should be published the week before.

Please help us send a clear message to the Council Leaders that Green Belt land should NOT be built on.

Sign our online petition to say HANDS OFF OUR GREEN BELT.

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Phoning for Witney

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This Thursday is polling day in the Witney by-election, and we need your help in the final stages of the campaign!

The support from across the North West has been amazing, with lots of people travelling down to Oxfordshire and also assisting from home or at the weekly by-election HQ at the ALDC offices in Manchester.

Lots of our newer party members have used the Witney by-election as an opportunity for some training, and this has been no different on the phones!

You can make a huge impact on the final election results by joining Lib Dem campaigners at ALDC from 1pm, Thursday 20th October at 23 New Mount Street, Manchester, M4 4DE. If you have never phoned before don’t worry, there is a friendly and experienced team on hand that will help you along the way.

If you can’t make it in person to the ALDC by-election HQ on Thursday, you can also make some calls from home – please email Louise at louise.bowe@aldc.org for further details.