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Friday, September 29, 2006 Letters to the Editor - 29 September 2006
author: Steve | 09/29/06 17:51 | comments Friday, September 22, 2006 Scrutiny Committee challenges location of hostels in most deprived communities and failure to tackle dramatic shortage of accomodation for homeless: But don't worry the Lib Dems ignore even the views of their own councillors let alone anyone else ! Plans to upgrade two direct access hostels in Tuebrook and Kensington at a cost of £3.7m were rejected by the members of the Health and Adult Social Care Committee last night (21st Sept) Moving the amendment which was carried by 8 votes to 5, Cllr Steve Radford said that the plans only upgraded current facilities whilst ignored the horrendous shortage of over 450 beds in the city, therefore it showed poor value for tackling demand in the city. He said tax payers were astonished that the council would spend £2.2m in Tuebrook just to increase the supply of beds from 21 to 23, when the shortage was of the order of 450 across the city He also critisised the way in which the hostels and the suggested interim sites were all in the most deprived areas of the city and those with high crime levels. It was not good enough to leave vulnerable yong people in the very environments which may have contributed to their problems. He said the prospect of putting a temp hostel into Everton was callous and supported objections by Labour Councillor Jane Corbett. However, when the amendment was carried by the Committee, Lib Dem Exec Member Dave Antrobus, said he was going ahead regardless and would not review the Exec Board decision Cllr Roz Gladden ,who had seconded the motion by Cllr Radford, said "I really wondered why we are here when decisions are pushed through regardless of the Scrutiny Committees views?" Cllr Steve Radford suggested Labour Councilors went back to their government and stated how undemocratic the Cabinet Model is that Labour imposed on local councils author: Steve | 09/22/06 01:37 | comments Why are we going round in circles? Muirhead Ave Roundabout as featured in the Liverpool Echo by Nick Coligan author: Steve | 09/22/06 00:45 | comments Tuebrook/Anfield and Old Swan Area Committee future meetings: Thursday 12th October Thursday 30th November Thursday 18th January Thursday 8th March Thursday 26th April These meetings are open to all residents who can table questions. They start at 6.30 and the venue will vary ,telephone 0792290322 if you want details or assistance with raising an issue author: Steve | 09/22/06 00:39 | comments Liberals speak out against Government plans to drop Data Protection for their own records Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Mobile 07920090322 Dear Editor Information given for one purpose cannot normally be used for another. Personal privacy, protection from identity fraud, confidentiality, and trust itself, rest on this principle that underpins our current legislation on Data protection Now the government wants to tear it up. In a new "Information sharing vision statement" September 2006, the government outlines how it wants to reverse the presumption of confidentiality and to revoke some basic Data Protection Principles when officials deal in future with people and businesses. Against established good practice and its own past legislation, the Government has decided it need not have to follow the rules for everyone else. In fact it intends to share information between all its own agencies and even service providers Departments will be empowered to swap information whenever useful for them - without the knowledge or consent of the persons involved. This is the key to the ID card puzzle. Once we are all numbered and fingerprinted, all official and almost all private information about everyone of us can be collated. From now on, assume that anything you tell to an official will not only go on your file, but may be sent on to anyone at all in 'the public interest'. And 'public interest' has just been redefined by the Identity Cards Act 2006 to mean 'official convenience'. Please protest to your MP as the big brother state is upon us Cllr Steve Radford author: Steve | 09/22/06 00:34 | comments Thursday, September 21, 2006 Steve Radford to speak at EU Critical Rally in Sussex On Thursday 28th Septemebr Cllr Steve Radford will be speaking at St Leonnards, Sussex at a public meeting sponsored by the Democracy Movement.
author: Steve | 09/21/06 02:56 | comments Liberals join John Moores Freshers Fair Members of the Liberal Party gave out 2000 No2ID flyers, leaflets on the Liberal Party and leaflets from the Democracy Movement, at the Freshers Fair at the Catholic Cathedral this week. It was quite alarming that there was no effort by the so called main stream parties to encourage students to join them Liberal members are now looking forward to participating in the forthcoming student fair for Liverpool University If you know of student events or debates we can contribute to please give us a call on 07920090322 author: Steve | 09/21/06 02:43 | comments Friday, September 15, 2006 Half a Million extra tourists into Anfield a year wouldn't result in an extra car says joke Lib Dem Council: Astonished Anfield residents protesting that the new 60,000 plus stadium built on Stanley Park would aggravate current levels of disorder and traffic congestion fell back in shock when council officials claimed that the project would bring a half million extra tourists into Anfield without a single extra car Rounding on this claim as a flight of fantasy, Cllr Steve Radford pointed out of the 6 promised park and ride sites, already one had become a housing new build site at Craven Park and that the reopening of the Bootle Branch to passenger traffic was as far off as ever. He said the council's own traffic plans were a wish list without the any robust deliverable plans in place After close examination of officers ,it became clear that during the building period the council intended to use sites cleared by demolition under the Housing Renewal policy (HMRI) as car parking facilities. This was in contradiction to the statements made at the Housing CPO Inquiry into Anfield made only a few months before Cllr Radford said the council in suggesting housing regeneration was linked to the Stadium in the Park was acting with duplicity and undermined the credibility of the phoney consultation which was more a sales pitch than an objective study. Cllr Radford urged the Regeneration Cmte think afresh, recognise that Anfield was already congested and put the Stadium on a preferable site like the East Lancs or Speke where there were better Motorway and Railway connections to deal with the planned for additional 1/2million visitors As totally expected the Labour and Lib Dem Cllrs voted the plan through author: Steve | 09/15/06 03:29 | comments Liberals Back Stop the War Rally in Liverpool At the Caribbean Centre, Toxteth, about 70 people joined for a Stop The War meeting (Wednesday 13th September) author: Steve | 09/15/06 02:47 | comments Wednesday, September 13, 2006
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author: Steve | 09/13/06 16:59 | comments Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Regeneration Committee Thursday 14th Sept to hear Objections to gifting Stanley Park. Thanks to the initiative of The Liberal Party Group supported by dissenting Lib Dem Cllrs and the sole Green Cllr from St Michael's ward the decision to gift Stanley Park to a joint venture company will now go for scrutiny to the Regeneration Cmte this Thursday at 4.30 in Millenium House all residents are encouraged to join our protest lobby author: Steve | 09/12/06 03:18 | comments Monday, September 11, 2006 Liberals Lead Call in on Stanley Park becoming a building site. Liverpool's three Liberal Party councillors have been joined by two dissenting Lib Dem councillors from St Michael's Ward and the council's sole Green councillor, to call in the decision to gift Stanley Park to a joint venture company to build a new stadium for lFC The Liberal Party has always argued that Liverpool needs a new stadium but at either Speke or the East Lancs route, both of which have good rail and motorway links , rather than in Anfield ,one of the most densely populated parts of the city Despite an almost press blackout on the objectors case ,over thirty local residents protested outside the council's exec board meeting last friday To the councils official consultation to the loss of open space, 414 objections were sent in as against a single letter of support. At the exec board a letter submitted after the council's own deadline ,by Lib Dem Cllr Kiron, always late Reid, was read out. However further letters of objection were not read out showing the arrogant bias and contempt by this Lib Dem Council to the people and their own busted election pledge to save local parks author: Steve | 09/11/06 01:34 | comments Friday, September 08, 2006 Liberal Response to CBI Cllr Steve Radford President of The Liberal Party 41 Sutton Street Tuebrook Liverpool L13 7EG 0151 259 5935 Mobile 07920090322 Dear Editor The CBI Director General , Richard Lambert, has spoken out that Britain needs a free trade, low tax, high skill economy or will face both high unemployment and high levels of taxation. He raises a legitimate debate, he also pointed out that extra layers of regulation were a burden on business. Surely the solution is not tax rebates to business, but looking at pulling back the excessive baggage of regulations. We need a simplified tax and benefits scheme in this country that respects incentives to work and is cheaper to administer We need to limit the legislation generated by the EU and apply an "added value threshold". Is the cumulative impact or cost of any additional regulations proportionate to the benefit to the community ? We would challenge the CBI Director in that having a high skilled workforce does require a significant financial commitment by society. Without doubt rising student fees and debts are having a negative impact young people obtaining higher education. The fear of student debt is a major factor for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds not going to University or equivalent institutions All parties need to focus on these issues for the economic and social welfare of the country Clllr Steve Radford President of The Liberal Party author: Steve | 09/08/06 13:44 | comments Thursday, September 07, 2006 Take Action on Vacant Housing Association properties in Fairfield and Stoneycroft say Liverpool Liberals: At the city council Housing Committee Tuesday 12th September from 4.30 ( Millennium House), the Liberal Party Councillors are calling for the council to convene as a matter of urgency a meeting of ward councillors, from both Kensington and Tuebrook, with Housing Association representatives to discuss long term derelict properties such as: 6 Russian Drive 89 Moscow Drive 15 Geneva Road 4 and 16 Hampstead Road 29 Huntly Road 29, 31 and 33 Onslow Road 33 Radstock Road as well as Prescot Road and Prescot Drive We would interested residents attend the meeting and table questions on this or similar issues to committee clerk dave.jones2@liverpool.gov.uk author: Steve | 09/07/06 01:04 | comments Wednesday, September 06, 2006 Granada 19th September We are hoping that Granada will be putting out a programme on the demolition question on 19th September . Liberal Party members Nina Edge, Elizabeth Pascoe, Mike Butler and Cllr Steve Radfiord have been working hard to give the producers material to raise the profile of this vital issue. author: Steve | 09/06/06 04:06 | comments 400 to 1 Object to loss of Stanley Park - open letter to local press - Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Mike Butler Mobile 07932969349 Dear Editor We would like to thank the 400 plus residents who objected to the council's plans to dispose of Stanley Park to a joint venture company. This contrasts to the fact only one single resident wrote in support of the council's plans , following the formal consultation notice. Since then we are alarmed that the council intend to convert part of what remains of Stanley Park to become a storage area for excess soil, debris and building materials for up to a period of three years. This mound may be as high as ten feet or so. So much for the Lib Dems promise to protect our Parks and Open Spaces. May be they would have been more honest to say they were committed to recycling Parks into building sites Cllr Steve Radford Mike Butler
Why not join us demonstration outside the Town Hall, Dale Street ,on Friday 8th Sept between 8.30 and 9.30 that morning
author: Steve | 09/06/06 02:09 | comments Tunnel Road Village Green applicants did not cause Edge Hill squalor but the City Council Demolition programme - open letter to Echo Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Mobile 07920090322 Dear Editor May I respond to some of the comments made concerning the consequences of residents of the Chatsworth Estate exercising their legal right to apply for Village Green status for the fields in front of their homes It is not action by them that has caused the squalor of vast rows of houses in of Edge Hill left abandoned and boarded up. It has been the deliberate policy of Liverpool city council, in conjunction with the so called "social landlords" to decant and depopulate the area. Having already blighted the area the council and partners are now seeking to force the remaining third or less of residents out by use of Compulsory Purchase Orders The solution is not to build on the last few remaining green sites but to swing into reverse the demolition programme. For a far more modest sum of money the terraces of Liverpool could be renovated as has happened at Skerries Road, Anfield Renovation would do far more to protect the community and ensure affordable homes in the city It is wrong to blame those seeking to protect Green spaces for the demolition and blight programme of this Lib Dem Council Cllr Steve Radford author: Steve | 09/06/06 01:47 | comments Open Letter to Merseymart. 6th September Dixie Dean Village Green campaign is about protecting local playing fields and is not against a new School Cllr Steve Radford 0151 259 5935 Mike Butler Mobile 07932969349 Dear Editor May we thank you for the excellent coverage by the Merseymart of the mounting campaign to protect established green spaces by community groups seeking to obtain Village Green Status for their local playing and recreational fields The only matter we would seek to clarify is that the Dixie Dean Group, who we totally support, are not in anyway seeking to stop a new school in the area. They recognise that the current Breckfield school site is more than an adequate size to be redeveloped. We would be delighted to support any residents groups seeking to protect their green spaces now that this lIb Dem council has gone bandit on their election pledges to protect our Victorian Parks and Playing Fields. Interested residents can write to us at The Liberal Party, 41 Sutton Street , Tuebrook or telephone 259 5935 Cllr Steve Radford Mike Butler
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