Ministers Threatens Medway with Even more Development

The Labour Government has issued a veiled financial threat to your Council and other Councils in the South East.

If Medway does not build the huge number of houses that Tony Blair wants, people may have funds for their services cut as money is awarded to Councils that 'toe the line' and build more houses.
Labour Minister, Ruth Kelly, made this announcement recently. However, Ms Kelly certainly has double standards - as she led the campaign in both 2000 and 2004 against the building of houses like these on a unused factory site in her own Constituency!
Councillor Rodney Chambers, the leader of Medway Council, said: "This is a very worrying situation. The fact that the Labour Government wants 40,000 houses a year to be built in the region is bad enough - but to threaten us with even more houses is sheer madness."
He added, "Conservative-led Medway Council is determined to promote the use of unused 'brownfield' sites, to meet its already agreed homes target for the next 20 years. Anymore than this is totally unacceptable!"

This story comes from the Spring issue of the Conservative Medway Mail that is circulated throughout the homes of Medway.
I posted this story because it falls in directly with the Capstone Valley Campaign.

posted by matt bright.