Gateshead
FOCUS - Ryton, Crookhill and Stella - Feb/Mar 2025
Your Gateshead updates from your Lib Dem councillors, activists and fellow residents.
JW
1 Mar 2025
Chopwell and Rowlands Gill
Email: hello@gatesheadlibdems.org.uk
Chopwell and Rowlands Gill Focus
Gateshead
It shouldn't be like this! Croft Estate
Too many properties on the Croft Estate are boarded up. Residents suffer from graffiti. Homes are left empty for too long at a time of a housing shortage. Fire damaged properties stand dangerously. It shouldn’t be like this!
JW
2 Jun 2025
Gateshead
Lib Dems call for experts to assess the risks!
Local residents have raised concerns with your local Lib Dem Focus Team about the proximity to each other of the Flogas site, the lithium ion battery farm and KMK Pallets on Newburn Bridge Road.
JW
1 Jun 2025
Gateshead
Gateshead Lib Dems call for Winter Fuel Payments to be backdated for local pensioners
Under the Government’s plans, all pensioners earning £35,000 a year or less will now have their Winter Fuel Payments reinstated this winter. However, those who are now eligible but lost out last winter won’t be reimbursed under the Government’s plans.
JW
19 Jun 2025
Gateshead
Ron re-elected Lib Dem Leader in Gateshead
Liberal Democrat Councillor for Low Fell, Ron Beadle, has been re-elected as Leader of the party and Opposition on Gateshead Council.
7 May 2025
Gateshead
Thumbs up for housing proposals in Birtley
Plans to build 276 houses on a derelict and empty site in Birtley have been welcomed by one of the town’s Liberal Democrat councillors.
12 May 2025