Recent meetings of the South Hams District Council's committees and full Council have endorsed proposals to charge disabled drivers for up to three hours parking and give them a fourth hour free. In the annual budget setting process increased car parks charges are again being proposed as a suitable way of helping to restore Government underfunding.
Commenting on the Government's Council Tax Benefit advertising campaign, Parmjit Singh Gill MP, Member of Parliament for Leicester South, said:
Liberal Democrats today set out details of their plans to replace the unfair Council Tax with a new Local Income Tax.
In an unprecedented move, leaders of all four political groups on Epsom & Ewell Borough Council have jointly written demanding that Government cash is delivered as promised. In response to Local Government Minister Nick Raynesford's announcement that all 'shire' Districts would receive 3% extra grant to help with next year's budget, councillors united to write asking for this to be delivered.
Commenting on today's publication of the Government's Bill to introduce top-up fees for students, Totnes Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson Mike Treleaven said:
Hawkinge Liberal Democrats have reacted with outrage to today's news that Hawkinge Post Office is to close.