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A tribute to ‘Pat from Lydiate’
For the last 5 years, one of my Borough councillors for Park Ward of Sefton Council has been Independent Pat O’Hanlon. She effectively took up as a Borough councillor as I bowed out of being one in...
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CPRE confirm what we anti-Local Plan campaigners have long thought
Campaigners, outside Maghull Town Hall (June 2013) trying to save Sefton Borough’s high grade agricultural land from development. I have said many times that there is no need to build on high grade...
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Maghull – We shouldn’t even be building on this land!
The vast Maghull East site seen from Poverty Lane presently used for growing crops but under Sefton Council’s Local Plan it is to be covered with housing. The Liverpool Echo has the article on its...
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Maghull – Plans out for consultation to build its vast urban extension – 1685...
After all the political fallout of recent years regarding Sefton Council’s Local Plan the biggest controversy within that plan is coming to its detailed conclusion. Two separate planning applications...
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Maghull – Now about that vast urban extension to the east of the Town
The vast Maghull East urban extension (presently high grade agricultural land) site as seen from Poverty Lane, Maghull The Liverpool Echo has the article on its website – see link below...
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Lydiate – Peter Greener RIP
Campaigners, outside Maghull Town Hall trying to save Sefton Borough’s high grade agricultural land from development. I think I first met Peter Greener in 2011, although it could have been earlier,...
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Maghull/Lydiate* – What was the thinking when the Turnbridge Road site was...
You only have to pick up a copy of the Aintree & Maghull Champion newspaper or look at comments on the Maghull Community Facebook page to see how troublesome this site is proving to be during the...
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Lydiate & Maghull – Those Neighbourhood Plan Referendums – We were given a...
Here I am looking at what was protected Green Belt and presently still is high grade agricultural land off Lambshear Lane in Lydiate. It’s been reserved as building land in Sefton’s Local Plan. If you...
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Green Belt loss – Well I’m not surprised, are you?
The vast Maghull East development (presently high grade agricultural land) site as seen from Poverty Lane, Maghull New Government data backs CPRE Green Belt figures – the story is on the CPRE’s web...
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Building on Green Belt does not provided much at all in terms of affordable...
Well I’ve been singing that tune for a very long time now, with specific reference to the encroachment onto the Green Belt in Sefton Borough. The BBC has the story on its web site – see link below:-...
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Maghull/Lydiate – HOUSING DEVELOPMENT –“IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO !”
The vast Maghull East development site as seen from Poverty Lane, Maghull Cllr. John Pugh is the Opposition Leader on Sefton Council. This is his press release following a Sefton Council Planning...
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Lydiate & Maghull Labour’s bizarre ‘Fake News’ obfuscation
Campaigners, outside Maghull Town Hall trying to save Sefton Borough’s high grade agricultural land and Green Belt from development. There’s a very odd Labour Party leaflet doing the rounds in Lydiate...
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Maghull – 1 & 2 bedroom properties are required BUT………
My frustrations with Sefton Council’s Local Plan are well documented on this blog site. Having spent more years than I care to recall fighting it; I lost of course as did many other campaigners across...
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Sefton Housing Plans Fail New Government Test – Pugh turns screw on Council’s...
The vast Maghull East site seen from Poverty Lane presently used for growing crops but under Sefton Council’s Local Plan it will be concreted over. The Liberal Democrat leader on Sefton Council, Cllr....
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A review of 2017 – The meanderings of a Liberal Blogger
12 months in 12 blog postings – click on each link to read the posting January – Loss of my dear friend ‘Uncle Albert’:- tonyrobertson.mycouncillor.org.uk/2017/01/11/goodbye-uncle-albert/ February –...
View ArticleSefton Borough – Building on Green Belt and the land that grows our food
I light of Labour supporters continuing to blame everyone else for Labour-run Sefton Council voting to build on Green Belt and high grade agricultural land across the Borough, here’s my recent letter...
View ArticleWrong Houses being being built in the wrong places? CPRE has hit a very...
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Maghull – Council still worrying over problems they did not fight when they...
My letter to the Maghull Champion newspaper in response to Maghull councillors crying crocodile tears over the massive Maghull East development site:- Dear Sir, I did not know whether to laugh or cry...
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Lydiate – Looking at its emerging Neighbourhood Plan
Well the first thing to say is that it will most certainly not set all Lydiate resident’s hearts a flutter. A worthy if unexciting plan is about the best I can say based on the drafts I have seen to...
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Maghull – It’s eastern urban extension land has been cropping in 2017 but for...
The Maghull East site is probably the most controversial of all of the Green Belt development sites across the whole Borough of Sefton because it is so vast, indeed it is now referred to as an ‘urban...
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