Lib Dem petition to save the Green Belt and green spaces
[caption id="attachment_130" align="alignleft" width="300"] Cllrs Garth Harkness and Derek Heffernan by a threatend site in Scouthead[/caption] The Liberal Democrats have started a petition to Oldham council to call on them to withdraw from the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework At the meeting on 22nd March the Liberal Democrat group proposed a motion calling Oldham Council to withdraw from the Greater Manchester Spatial Framework (GMSF) and to instead develop a local plan for housing and commercial development in the borough. They were frustrated by an amendment that means Oldham will now not withdraw Saddleworth North Councillor Garth Harkness said “It is frustrating that Labour, lacking the honesty to vote openly for keeping GMSF, ‘amended’ and wrecked our proposal by taking out the resolution to leave. So Labour will wring its hands but make sure…