At the May 2011 elections for Nottingham City Council all 6 Lib Dem councillors lost their seats. There are now no Lib Dem councillors on the Council. If you want to contact the Lib Dems in Nottingham please look on our website: http://nottinghamlibdems.org.uk/en/
Wollaton East & Lenton Abbey Lib Dem councillors Dave Oldham and Tony Sutton have welcomed a new conservation area plan for the Wollaton Park estate.
The plan for the Sutton Passeys Conservation Area, which was approved by the Council’s Development Control committee this week, will protect the area’s distinctive architectural and historical character, which is unique to the city of Nottingham.
Cllr Dave Oldham said:
Local residents are delighted that this new conservation area has been approved. They have been asking for it for a long time.
Recently we have seen quite a few changes to properties which really don’t sit with the character of the area. This conservation area plan will help to preserve the estate’s heritage. Myself and Tony Sutton have supported it from the start.”
Cllr Tony Sutton said:
The Wollaton Park estate is a unique area with special historical characteristics. Approval of this conservation area will go a long way to preserving the much-loved style of the estate.
It is important to remember that this will not prohibit developments, but will ensure that they are looked at by the planning committee to make sure they are in-keeping with the area. It is an area which the residents love, and they wish to keep its special character.
The name ‘Sutton Passeys Conservation Area’ is not one that most residents would have chosen, but we can understand that calling it the ‘Wollaton Park Estate Conservation Area’ could have led to some confusion with the nearby ‘Wollaton Park Conservation Area’.”
Wollaton East & Lenton Abbey Lib Dem councillor, Tony Sutton, has written a guest column for today’s Nottingham Post about the Council’s housing allocations scandal.
Click here to read the column on the Nottingham Post website.
Nottingham’s ruling Labour Group has voted against a Liberal Democrat motion which called for an independent review into the Council’s housing allocations scandal.
According to the Audit Commission, the Council’s housing service wrongly allocated homes to some staff members, their friends, or relatives between 2003 and 2005.
See the full story on the Nottingham Post website here.
Nottingham Liberal Democrat leader Cllr Gary Long has described local government funding cuts as “not fair” and has called on Communities and Local Government minister Eric Pickles to have a serious rethink.
Following a Full Council debate on the subject, Cllr Long said:
The poorer areas are being hit harder. It is obvious. Deprived cities like Nottingham need the most help, not the deepest cuts. It is not fair.
To make matters worse, cuts to local government are higher than other Whitehall departments and they are also being frontloaded so the Council is being forced to make cuts early.
Eric Pickles has either not bothered to get a good settlement for his department, or he has intentionally chosen to slash local authority budgets harshly. We’ve heard a lot of rubbish about savings coming from cutting back room staff or using reserves to pay for things, but if Pickles believes that this is reality then he really needs his head examining.”
Notes for editors
On 7th February 2011, the Liberal Democrat Group voted in favour of a motion in the name of Cllr Chapman which read as follows:
This Council believes the Government’s grant settlement 2011-12 is unfair on the city, unfair on the worst off in the city, and risks destabilising the economy of the city.
It therefore asks the government to rectify the injustice of this year’s settlement in order to ensure that the reductions are fair, as promised; the national economy is rebalanced, as promised; and that we really are “all in it together”, as promised.
On 24th November 2010, Cllr Gary Long was interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham about student tuition fees. You can listen to the interview by playing the video clip below…
