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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!
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.
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.
Liberal Democrat Councillor for Low Fell, Ron Beadle, has been re-elected as Leader of the party and Opposition on Gateshead Council.
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.
A council leader has said he should have been "more clear" about checks to a flyover shut on safety grounds.