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The Liberal Democrats exist to build and safeguard a fair, free and open society, in which we seek to balance the fundamental values of liberty, equality and community, and in which no-one shall be enslaved by poverty, ignorance or conformity.

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  • Tackling High Pay and Inequality - Dick Newby
    Event: February 9, 2012 7:00 PM

    Lord Dick Newby, Lib Dem Treasury Spokesman in the House of Lords, and a member of the High Pay Commission

    will give a talk

    "Tackling High Pay and Inequality"

    on

    Thursday 09 February

    7 - 9 pm

    Rivermead Court, Ranelagh Gardens

    Fulham SW6 3RU

    Suggested Donation £ 10.00 members and guests, £ 6.00 concessions, waived for new members in 2012

  • H&F Town Hall Redevelopment Application withdrawn.
    Article: Dec 16, 2011

    The Save Our Skyline campaign in Hammersmith is today able to celebrate the decision by H&F Council to withdraw the Town Hall Redevelopment planning application.

    Hammersmith and Fulham Council's planning applications committee had approved the project two weeks ago despite objections from more than 30 amenity groups, and hundreds of local people, and a fiercely critical speech from a previously loyal Conservative councillor.

  • Hammersmith Town Hall Redevelopment - Ask the GLA and Eric Pickles to review this decision
    Article: Dec 8, 2011

    Last week seven Hammersmith and Fulham Councillors on the Planning Applications Committee (PAC) voted to allow a planning application that will give them new Council Offices at no cost if they let the developers build several hundred luxury flats on the site of the Pocklington Homes for the blind and the cinema.

  • Super-Sewer - Public meeting challenges short-listing of Fulham's Carnworth Road as site for main shaft.
    Article: Dec 8, 2011

    Campaigners against the construction of a super-sewer shaft in a residential area of Fulham were disappointed at a travesty of a meeting in South Fulham tonight, Wednesday.

    Residents at the meeting, organised by the Council had hoped for some constructive movement towards convincing Thames Water that it was a mistake to make the site at Carnworth Road their preferred site for the main shaft of the Thames Tideway Tunnel.

  • Stephen Williams MP: Making the Banks Work for Us.
    Article: Dec 6, 2011

    H and F Lib Dems had a very enjoyable and interesting evening with Stephen Williams MP, at the Shed Cafe in Walham Grove, North End Road on Monday 05 December.

    Mr Williams was invited to tell us about his innovative proposal that the Government's stake in Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group RBS should be given away to members of the public.

  • Super-Sewer meeting, Wednesday 07 Dec, Hurlingham and Chelsea School
    Article: Dec 6, 2011

    The Council is hosting a meeting tomorrow on the super sewer at Hurlingham & Chelsea School in Sands End SW6, at which Stephen Greenhalgh, Greg Hands, Kit Malthouse and others will be touting their alternatives to tackling the sewage overflows into the Thames.

    We need as many local residents as possible to attend to expose the Tories' hypocrisy and betrayal of local residents.

  • H&F Council Planning approves Town Hall redevelopment despite local opposition
    Article: Dec 2, 2011

    After a very crowded and rowdy meeting lasting more than 4 hours, and in the face of opposition from all parts of the community, Hammersmith and FulhamÂ' Council's Planning Committee has approved the proposed redevelopment of the Town Hall site.

    Paul Kennedy of H&F Liberal Democrats was among several Lib Dems there. He writes: Â"The meeting had been moved to Latymer Upper School in an acknowledgment of the strength of opposition, but despite this 100 or so of the 400 or so people attending had to wait up to an hour to get in because of inadequate marshalling. Acoustics were terrible and there was no loop for those with hearing aids: for example, after an hour, Audrey Burtt of Ravenscourt Place told me she was leaving the hall because she could hear nothing.

    The applicants' slides showing the impact of the development were disgracefully misleading, using photographs taken from enormous distances or obscure angles, or from behind other buildings which shielded the towers, or with clouds in the background so you couldn't tell what was tower and what was cloud, but they fooled nobody. Officials admitted that the development was larger than they had originally felt comfortable with, but were now supporting it simply in order to ensure the developers made a profit.

    The application was approved, despite several Conservative Councillors having absented themselves during the meeting while evidence was being given so that I don't see how they could properly have voted, and of course massive opposition from the audience.

    The highlight of a depressing evening for local democracy and the people of Hammersmith was a brilliant and courageous speech by Conservative Councillor Lucy Ivimy, supporting the protesters' objections and roundly condemning the Council. It is unusual to find a Conservative Councillor who is prepared to put people before profits. I'm not sure where she goes from here, but her words will prick the consciences of her colleagues for a long time. Clearly very emotional she was congratulated by all of us as she left the hall. The opposition was fantastically orchestrated by the Save Our Skyline committee, as always.

    Marie-Antoinette-style, one of the Fulham councillors on the committee suggested that historic Hammersmith cinema which will be demolished to make way for the development could be replaced by an impromptu open-air cinema in the new so-called 'piazza'.

    The campaign is not over. Next stop, Eric Pickles and then the Mayor."

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24016500-fury-at-council-pantomime-to-allow-high-rises.do

    Cllr Lucy Ivimy's speech

  • Earl's Court and West Kensington SPD 11Nov11
    Document: Nov 13, 2011
    155.41 KiB drawing or desktop publishing document
  • H&F Council proposes to deny Planning Committee Members access to planning documents
    Article: Nov 7, 2011

    On Wednesday 09 November (in two days time) Hammersmith and Fulham Council's planning committee will consider adopting a new "Protocol" controlling access to confidential documents submitted as part of a planning application. The effect of the Protocol, if adopted, will be to prevent elected Councillors from accessing planning application documentation.

  • A Charter For All Road Users
    Article: Nov 7, 2011

    Hammersmith & Fulham Liberal Democrats have proposed a Charter for all road users, including pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, residents, motorists, and users of public transport in Hammersmith and Fulham.

    As a result of neglect from successive Labour and Conservative administrations, Hammersmith and Fulham has some of the worst traffic congestion, road safety and air quality in London. Our roads are a disgrace. Yet the Council wants to bring even more through-traffic into our Borough, reducing our quality of life still further. Its unambitious target is to increase cycling from 4% to just 5% of total trips, compared with more than 50% in some Dutch towns.

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