This is the page where YOU can bring a spotlight to bear on local issues that concern us and our community.
If you've got an idea for an improvement or a concern about something that doesn't seem right to you, or you're looking for a platform for a local campaigncontact uswith the details and air your views here.
We'll also put links here to those you let us know about.

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Local plans for development - wherever you see any green - there's a plan.
• Whinney Carr
• Jarvis + the University
• Western Bypass
• Chelverton, Kingsway, the canal road, the supermarket + the Music Co-op

• Care in the Community?
28/1/04: Michael P. Nunn reports on a care home in the local area and we ask you for your views on the standards of local nursing homes



• Public Entertainment Licensing
9/12/02: Local musician Jon Moore outlines the campaign against changes which could devastate the local music scene



The Bypass Debate
• Latest news (posted October 2002)
• Western Route background
• LCC Update
• Hilton Dawson, The Bypass Committee + The Green Party

Whinney Carr Housing Development Do we need 500+ new houses in the fields south of Lancaster? FOE think not. more

Another Nuclear Power Station? Margaret Thatcher wanted to make us a nuclear dumping ground, now it's claimed Tony Blair is thinking about building a third reactor at Heysham. more

Local Anti-War Campaign: Latest Press Releases,
News, Events + Links

RAIL TRAVEL WOES
5/10/01: The 2001 Winter Rail Timetable meant you couldn't leave Lancaster by rail on a Sunday until 3.00pm, breaking rail guidelines. The local Green Party asked for buses to replace the service so rail users could at least get to Preston. Railtrack said that because this is the way engineering works are carried out, that's the way it's got to be. No wonder they went out of business. More...

12/06/01
The Warehouse Raid
Is Hilton Dawson missing?
Still no reply from Hilton Dawson MP to our requests for a comment about police refusal to let a woman having an asthma attack have her inhaler.
Dr Ruth Henig, Labour County Councillor and Chairman of the Association of Police Authorities apparently thinks it's ok for the police to behave abusively to the general public because other people take drugs...Why does anyone bother to vote.....

Update
I take that last comment back. Jonathon Sear, Green County Councillor for Lancaster City appears to be the one local politician who doesn't think that the electorate are expendable fodder for the police to act out their frustrations on. In a reply to this site and a letter to the Citizen newspaper, he voiced his concerns about the Warehouse debacle and promised to arrange a meeting with the Divisional Commander to discuss the issues it has raised.
If there are matters you would like raised that haven't yet been covered in the local media you can about them.

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