Street Survey - Haywards Heath
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On May 5th local elections were held for the Mid Sussex District Council and Town Councils across the area. Full results for Mid Sussex District Council are available below. In short the Tories have maintained control of Mid Sussex, Burgess Hill and Haywards Heath whilst also taking control of East Grinstead.
With just two days to go until elections to our Town and District Councils it is shaping up to be a straight fight between your local Liberal Democrat Team and the Tories. It is becoming clear on the doorsteps that more and more people are frustrated at the Tories lack of understanding on the issues that face Mid Sussex and people are now turning to the Liberal Democrats and their radical programme for change.
Children's Minister Sarah Teather has visited Haywards Heath to support the Liberal Democrat local elections campaign.
Mid Sussex Liberal Democrats A weekly round-up of Councillors' and Campaigners' blogs
Continuing on from our last post on the recent decision by the Planning Inspector to allow homes to be built in the AONB in Cuckfield there has been a response from the Conservative leader of MSDC.
Mid Sussex Liberal Democrats A weekly round-up of Councillors' and Campaigners' blogs
In this week's Mid Sussex Times Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner Serena Tierney's letter about the Tory run District Council's failure to plan housing development has been published. The letter is reproduced here along with some quotes from the Planning Inspector's judgement.
Mid Sussex Liberal Democrats Simon Hicks - Burgess Hill Hassocks Trader Urges Support for Sustainable High Streets Support for a move by Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP from St Ives, to write into the localism bill a duty on local authorities to take into account the sustainability of their high streets, has been urged by local shopkeeper...
It appears that the dispute between West Sussex County Council and its former chief has been resolved, but the details are being kept secret. Serena Tierney, Lib Dem Parliamentary Campaigner for Mid Sussex said: "We all saw the headlines that said the County chief had been 'sacked' by the Tory council leader. He was the highest-paid council chief in the country and had been with West Sussex for 10 years. Clearly any unfair dismissal claim could reach something in the region of a million pounds. That's a lot of public money - especially when services are being cut because the council can't pay for them.
Commenting on the results of the Labour Party leadership poll, Serena Tierney said:
"We have punched above our weight in government because we have a democratic party which has clear principles and policies" said Vince Cable in his keynote conference speech today.