Music Free Petition Presented At City Hall

Angie Bray AM, Leader of the London Assembly Conservative group, yesterday received a 4,500 strong petition calling for the banning of excessively loud music being played by mobile phones and MP3 players across the public transport network.

The petition, started by Tom Wright and Valeria Martinelli, was one of the largest ever presented to the London [...]

Nothing New From Labour

David Evennett, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford, has condemned the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s pre Budget report, presented to the House of Commons yesterday (6 December) as “irrelevant to the needs and concerns of the people of Bexley”.  Mr Evennett said “Much of what he said was recycled and had already been announced previously. There [...]

Labour’s Planning Proposals Could Make Incinerator Building Easier

Belvedere Conservative Councillor David Leaf has expressed his concerns over new planning proposals which would make incinerator building easier and less accountable. The Barker Review of “Land Use Planning” was published today [5th December 2006] and suggests that a Planning Commission quango should determine the outcome of large projects including planning consents for waste incinerators. [...]