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Monday, February 27, 2006 Liberals Push for Venue Site Redevelopment The planning committee at the Town Hall on Tuesday 28th at 10.00 hrs is to consider the application for 4 retail units and 50 plus apartments on the former Venue Nightclub site. Liberal cllrs are keen to encourage as many local residents to attend as this site is a long standing eyesore and planning officers are recommending permission be refused. We believe this defies all logic author: Steve | 02/27/06 11:23 | comments Wednesday, February 22, 2006 Britain to pay extra 1.1 billion pounds to EU.
Cllr Steve Radford President of The Liberal Party
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Liverpool
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Dear Editor
Treasury figures released this month have shown that British taxpayers will pay an extra 1.1 billion pounds a year to the EU under the new budget deal negotiated by Tony Blair in December. The contribution means an extra 500 pounds from every British taxpayer - to quote the Daily Express , enough funds to build 20 hospitals a year.
The EU already inflates the cost of food imported into the UK adding at least £500 to the annual food bill of every British household
The excessive levels of regulations are strangling small businesses , we need the EU to be more flexible and democratic.
However the governments of the EU are working for greater centralisation , ignoring the results of the recent French and Dutch referendums.
This is an outrage to democracy and more people should speak out
Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party
author: Steve | 02/22/06 20:19 | comments Mencap House We would like to squash rumours about Mencap House, Clubmoor This building is not owned by the council and there has been no planning applications for change of use as yet. However we believe interest has been expressed for residential use author: Steve | 02/22/06 20:11 | comments EDGE LANE DEMOLITIONS EXCESSIVE TO NEED TO EXTEND MOTORWAY
Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel William and Chris Lenton Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG
0151 259 5935
07920090322
Dear Editor
Letter for Publication
The current debate over roads versus houses in Edge Hill in many ways is quite misleading.
For everyone accepts that Edge Lane has been several decades overdue for an extension of the M62 and therefore some element of demolition would be needed
However what this Lib Dem Council has done is manipulated this case to add hundreds of Edge Hill homes to the CPO and demolition programme which are not in the way of the road extension
In that respect we welcome the outspoken comments from Jane Kennedy MP
It must be difficult for her because this excessive demolition programme is being funded and supported by her colleague John Prescott.
Jane Kennedy is quite right when she describes it as municipal vandalism, social cleansing and a gross waste of public funds.
It is even more puzzling when we have repeatedly challenged the demolitions (in both Housing Committee and full council ) the Labour Group sometimes voted with the Lib Dems on other occasions did not bother voting at all.
We hope Jane Kennedy would use her position to persuade the Labour Council Group to start acting as an opposition rather than disinterested and confused bystanders
Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton
Liberal Party Council Group
author: Steve | 02/22/06 20:09 | comments Thursday, February 16, 2006 Newsham Park - Green School built on destruction of Trees and Hedges
Cllr Steve Radford
Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG
0151 259 5935
Mobile 07920090322
Dear Editor
Letter for Publication
Last week the Prime Minister made a staged appearance at a new academy school in Newsham Park, Liverpool and proclaimed his commitment to Green issues
Whilst the new school with its professed interest in ecology is welcome, there is an underlying hypocrisy from the very foundation of the school
Firstly the school was built upon an open and established Victorian Park. Trees and hedgerows were destroyed to make way for the school to be built
Secondly this modernist building was imposed onto a Victorian Conservation Area.
The building stands out like a lego land giant space ship destroying the Victorian outlook of Newsham Park
If the Bishop of Liverpool and Prime Minister had a clear commitment to green issues they would have had the school built on one of the extensive number of brownfield sites in the Kensington/Fairfield /Stanley area of Liverpool.
No wonder the Prime Minister would not allow journalists or residents to ask questions.
For less than a quarter of a mile away on Prescot Drive and Prescot Road, at the other end of Newsham Park he could have seen how this negligent Lib Dem council ,supported by the ODPM, is deliberately emptying large houses out and leaving a zone of dereliction at a time when our housing waiting lists have soared from 7,500 to 11,300 just in the last two years alone
Cllr Steve Radford
Liberal Party Councillor
Deputy Chair of Liverpool Housing Scrutiny Committee
author: Steve | 02/16/06 16:14 | comments Edge Lane Demolitions and Hypocrisy
Cllr Steve Radford , Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton
Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG
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Dear Editor
For many years we have all recognised the need to extend the M62 access to the city centre.
However the Edge Lane debate has been about why so many houses, far removed from the planned road extension should be Compulsory Purchased and demolished at great public cost
We were fascinated by the comments of Lib Dem Cllr Marbrow "John Prescot seems to have decided that the way to regenerate areas is to knock them down"
It is the actual policy of this Lib Dem Council to continue a massive programme of CPO and demolitions throughout the terraced communities of Liverpool
In fact only this month at the city council the Lib Dem Group on the council reiterated this policy, the only dissent being from our Liberal Party Group and one lone Lib Dem rebel John Coyne.
When we asked Lib Dem Cllrs to call in for scrutiny the 1000 CPO's for Edge Hill and Anfield ,the day before Christmas Eve we got no support from Cllr Marbrow or any of his colleagues- so his comments about demolition seem somewhat shallow
The Liverpool Pathfinder Project has an obsession with demolition and very little renovation, particularly when we compare with the Manchester /Salford Pathfinder
It is cynical and hypocritical for Lib Dem and Labour Politicians to selectively blame each other for a project sponsored by this LIb Dem Council and funded by a Labour Government
Cllrs Steve Radford, Hazel Williams and Chris Lenton
Liberal Party Group
author: Steve | 02/16/06 16:08 | comments Monday, February 13, 2006 Labour Dishonest over case for ID cards
Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party
41 Sutton Street
Tuebrook
Liverpool
L13 7EG
0151 259 5935
Mobile 07920090322
Letter for Publication
Dear Editor
The press is carrying the claim by Gordon Brown that ID cards would help deter terrorist attacks such as on July 7th
How?
Everyone of the known culprits of 7th July would have been entitled to a UK ID card.
How does asking a suicide bomber to present himself with his ID card to a police station seven days later - after he has blown himself to bits act as a deterrent ?
Enough of this dishonest dribble !
ID cards is about making a lot of money for computer contractors and imposing the cost on taxpayers
The banks bleat about the cost of fraud to themselves , however every week our doors are inundated with unsolicited literature asking us to take out loans
As the banks are irresponsible in the way they lend money let them pay for ID cards not us the overburdened tax payers
Cllr Steve Radford
President of The Liberal Party
author: Steve | 02/13/06 13:11 | comments Sunday, February 12, 2006 Liberal Party rallies against ID cards - Letter sent across national press 26, Archers Green Road, author: Steve | 02/12/06 20:44 | comments Friday, February 10, 2006 Open Letter - Liberals support fight to save Dixie Dean Fileds Dear Sir, Daniel Wood author: Steve | 02/10/06 12:57 | comments |
