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30 Most Recent News Stories
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Sat 19th Jul 2008
Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg today launched the party's "Make it Happen" document, which is a statement of the party's vision and values.
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Fri 18th Jul 2008
We are pleased to announce our prospective candidates for the Essex County Council elections for 2009. They are:
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Sun 22nd Jun 2008
Brentwood Liberal Democrat councillors have slammed Conservative plans to change to a cabinet system of local government on Brentwood Borough Council. They reacted angrily to the news when it was announced as an urgent item of business at Wednesday's Policy Panel meeting (18/6/08).
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Tue 17th Jun 2008
Cllr Karen Chilvers, Lib Dem councillor and former lead campaigner in the "Save Thorndon Park" campaign, is calling for the council to create a "Friends of Brentwood Country Parks" group to be created to safeguard the future of our precious parks.
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Sat 14th Jun 2008
Brentwood and Ongar Lib Dems offer their congratulations to the following residents, who have been honoured in the Queen's Birthday Honours:
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Thu 12th Jun 2008
Local cricket players and fans will be sad and disappointed to hear that Brentwood Borough Council's last remaining grass cricket square is going to close and will cease to be maintained as a fine turf area.
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Sun 25th May 2008
Brentwood Liberal Democrats emphasised their support for a mixed use development for Merrymeade House that takes into account resident's concerns and environmental issues at last week's meeting of the Planning and Development Control Committee. We support the ground and first floors being used for community use as intended while developing the upper floor for affordable housing.
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Fri 2nd May 2008
Brentwood Liberal Democrats are celebrating after the convincing win by Group Leader David Kendall in Pilgrims Hatch and welcoming a new councillor in Brentwood North, Ross Carter.
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Fri 18th Apr 2008
GOOD NEWS! The planning application was rejected at the Planning Committee.
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Sun 6th Apr 2008
Brentwood Liberal Democrats have released their vision for Brentwood, ahead of the borough council elections on Thursday 1st May 2008.
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Thu 3rd Apr 2008
Residents on Costead Manor Road and Greenshaw have contacted the Brentwood North Lib Dem Team concerning the frequency of their 71 Bus Service. The service links Costead Manor Road with Brentwood High Street and Stondon Massey. Upon examination of the timetable, Brentwood North candidate Ross Carter and Cllr Reg Straw found that not all of the journeys serve the estate. The Lib Dem Petition to call for increased journeys has attracted strong support.
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Sun 30th Mar 2008
Liberal Democrat Borough councillors in Pilgrims Hatch ward were celebrating the news this week that action was going to be taken at last to improve the dangerous Sandpit Lane/Ongar Road junction.
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Fri 28th Mar 2008
Cllr Karen Chilvers is delighted to report that Vehicle Activated signs, as requested by her at the November Environment Panel, will soon be installed in London Road.
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Sun 23rd Mar 2008
Brentwood's Liberal Democrat group has reacted with sadness and disappointment at the Conservative-run Borough Council's decision to approve plans for the demolition and re-building of Winifred Dell House, the elderly care home in Warley. This decision will mean that elderly residents may have to vacate the home.
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Sun 23rd Mar 2008
At the recent budget setting meeting the arrogant Tories railroaded through their four per cent increase in your Borough Council tax and then poured scorn on anyone attempting to question where residents money was being spent or offer an alternative budget.
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Sun 23rd Mar 2008
Cllr Derek Hardy, former Mayor of Brentwood, has announced he is to stand down from active politics after serving for 17 years as ward councillor for Brizes and Doddinghurst. Derek also served as county councillor for 12 years and parish councillor for 25 years.
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Thu 6th Mar 2008
Vehicle-activated signs aimed at slowing down the traffic in London Road (suggested by Cllr Karen Chilvers at November's Environment Panel), are being put forward for members' consideration at the meeting of the panel on in March.
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Tue 4th Mar 2008
Brentwood Lib Dems are in a state of total disbelief since Conservative councillor Phil Baker confirmed that Essex County Council would press ahead with the Olympic Gateway Sculpture at Brook Street roundabout regardless of the fact that the borough will no longer be hosting the Mountain Bike Event at the 2012 Olympics. Furthermore, the Tory administration was not able to confirm the cost of the project.
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Tue 4th Mar 2008
The Liberal Democrat group on Brentwood Borough Council are now demanding that the Conservative Administration reverse their decision and ensure that Old House is saved for use by local community groups. This follows representations from a number of groups who are very concerned about the practicalities of moving to the Merrymeade building in Sawyers Hall Lane which they feel has poor access to public transport and would not have a cafeé.
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Mon 3rd Mar 2008
Brentwood's Liberal Democrat councillors have welcomed the news that elderly residents are going to be able to continue using their bus passes from 9.00am rather than 9.30am as had originally been suggested.
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Tue 26th Feb 2008
Planning permission for a four-storey care home for up to 109 elderly residents is set to be built in London Road on a site currently occupied by just four houses. Sunrise Senior Living, a US company who will be charging a minimum of £700 per room per week, now aims to open the home within the next 2 years.
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Wed 13th Feb 2008
Brentwood Liberal Democrats have discovered that bookings for Keys Hall, the community facility in Warley earmarked for possible disposal by the Conservative administration running Brentwood Borough Council, are being actively discouraged. Bookings can now only be made three months in advance and there is no longer a working kitchen.
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Thu 31st Jan 2008
It has been announced today that the 2012 Olympic Games Mountain Biking event is to be moved from Brentwood.
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Wed 30th Jan 2008
Lib Dem Group Leader Councillor David Kendall has called on Tory controlled Brentwood Borough Council to give a long term commitment to residents that they will NOT consider introducing fortnightly residual waste collections, tagging bins or charging by weight collected for at least the next five years.
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Tue 15th Jan 2008
The Liberal Democrats have welcomed the news that ONE Railway has contracted a Security company (MH Security) to provide security agents for Brentwood Station. The agents have been taken on to help improve passenger safety and reduce the number of groups congregating at the station after school and into the early evening. This is an additional initiative to work already being done in the area by the local police and PCSOs.
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Tue 15th Jan 2008
Cllr David Kendall, Brentwood Lib Dem Group Leader, has attacked the Conservatives running Essex County Council over their abject failure to finance highway repairs properly. Just a few weeks ago the Tories announced a £10 million overspend on the highways budget.
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Tue 18th Dec 2007
Brentwood & Ongar Liberal Democrats send their congratulations to Nick Clegg MP, new Leader of the Liberal Democrats, and look forward to working with him to build a Liberal Britain.
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Wed 12th Dec 2007
The Liberal Democrat group is disappointed that the Conservative majority gave a resounding NO to their call for a Borough-wide consultation on the William Hunter Way.
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Wed 5th Mar 2008
Lib Dem councillors have called for the discretionary grant to Kelvedon Hatch Parish Council to be withheld until after various auditor investigations on the parish council's financial affairs are completed.
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Thu 28th Feb 2008
Nina Cutbush, Prospective Borough Council Candidate for Warley, is unhappy with the Essex Conservatives' policy on potholes.
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