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A Personal Message from Councillor Sam Potts
Welcome to my web site. I would like to thank all those residents of Ouse Valley for their support in the Milton Keynes Council Elections. I am proud to represent this area as your Liberal Democrat Councillor. I pledge to serve you all to the best of my ability, and to fight to protect our villages.
I intend to use this web site as well as my Focus Newsletter to keep you informed of my activities. Please feel free to email me with any comments, and any local issues that you would like me to address.
Yours,
Sam Potts
"Conference a success"
Thu 13th Mar 2008
Sam Potts has returned from the Liberal Democrat spring conference in Liverpool in an upbeat mood. The conference, which meets twice a year, had a record number of people attending it.
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Shell Garage Application
Sun 3rd Feb 2008
Many local people used the Shell Garage to fill up with petrol. The application to develop the Shell Garage into an urban leisure plaza was opposed by Lib Dem Sam Potts and the Lathbury Parish Meeting who unanimously backed him in opposing this application.
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Crime In The Villages
Fri 1st Feb 2008
In the last two years crime in the villages has been going up: Distraction Burglaries, Burglaries, Armed Robbery, Violent Assaults, Lead stolen from church roofs, yet the number of police in the villages seems to remain the same.
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Petsoe wind farm decision
Wed 9th Jan 2008
Just one day after the Council's Development Control Committee had voted 6-5 in favour of granting permission for a wind farm at Petsoe, the decision was put on hold after it was discovered that there was a rarely-used rule in the council's constitution that allowed decisions of the Development Control Committee to be referred back to the full council if it could be shown that there was a flaw in the decision-making process.
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Council tax pegged to inflation
Thu 3rd Jan 2008
The Council's Lib Dem administration has once again kept its pledge not to increase council tax above inflation. It is currently consulting local people about its budget and its proposed council tax increase of 3.9%. Council tax in Milton Keynes is well below the national average.
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Council cuts energy use.
Wed 2nd Jan 2008
The Carbon Trust, a Government-backed climate change charity, recognised the achievements of the Liberal Democrat Council in cutting energy use and carbon emissions at schools, libraries and other council owned buildings by awarding it membership of the Energy Efficiency Accreditation Scheme. The scheme recognises the achievements in reducing energy by businesses and organisations in industry, commerce and the public sector.
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"Liberalism in Britain has lost a great champion, the Liberal Democrats, a great advocate and our public life, a great servant. "
Lord Paddy Ashdown
In memory of Lord Richard Holme, who died on 5 May
"If the Tories want to claim that they are going to cut corporation tax, they have to come clean about how they are going to pay for it. Cutting the main rate of corporation tax to 25% will cost more than £5bn a year. If David Cameron is to have a hope of sounding credible he must state clearly where the money will come from. Otherwise this will be seen as yet another unfunded tax cut. "
Vince Cable - Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor
www.libdems.org.uk - 2 May
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