Taiwo Owatemi: ...and not even the Government in Westminster. Even as we speak, thousands of Coventry families are being denied a modest social home, while historic hedgerows and badger setts are being torn out in Keresley by developers constructing half-a-million-pound executive mansions, which are irrelevant to local need and built solely for private profit. The big picture is really bad. The specifics of...
Taiwo Owatemi: ...on our treasured green belt is a burning issue for many of my constituents in Coventry North West, so I welcome this opportunity to highlight their frustrations. From Eastern Green to Allesley, Keresley and Holbrooks, communities in my constituency have seen vital green spaces lost to new housing developments in recent years, with more of our local green belt threatened with the same fate...
Taiwo Owatemi: ...on the ground. Secondly, I wish to speak about planning rules and new housing developments, and the impact that they are having on certain communities. Across the communities of Holbrook, Allesley, Keresley, and Eastern Green in my constituency of Coventry North West, many of my constituents have real and heartfelt anxieties about the impact of large-scale new development and its...
Taiwo Owatemi: ...hand them to developers will be nothing short of a disaster for our green spaces. Already, local people have too little control over which developments are built near to them. Communities such as Keresley in my constituency risk being subsumed into the city suburbs by plans that they did not approve and are now fearful of losing much of their unique village identity. Even when...
Taiwo Owatemi: ...Even today, so many have made my part of Coventry their home. My constituency is also diverse in the lay of its land—from the sprawling green country fields of Bablake approaching the villages of Keresley and Allesley to the west, to the cityscape further to the east—but at its heart is its community spirit. Across our six wards, residents are supported by numerous community centres...
Andrew Stephenson: ...of the coke workers union and I understand that he died very young as a result of his years of service underground. At the age of 16, my right hon. Friend’s husband turned down a job in the Keresley pit, but that did not stop him helping to organise port blockades to prevent Polish imports while he was a student, and getting into trouble with his university to protect—in his...
Claire Perry: ...and her husband, Bill O’Neill, who was a leading light in the coke workers union, died very young as a result of his many years of service underground. Indeed, my husband turned down a job in the Keresley pit at the age of 16, but got into trouble at university for helping to organise the blockade of ports on the east coast to stop the imports of Polish coal, so I will not take any...
Therese Coffey: ...Alleviation Scheme, Dinnington Rother Valley 0.29 Broad Oak Water culvert, Accrington Hyndburn 0.23 Sutherland Road, Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire South Staffordshire 0.15 Bennetts Road, Keresley Flood Alleviation Scheme Coventry North West 0.15 Calico Brook, Appley Bridge - Scheme Review & Enhancement Wigan 0.11 Waterhead Brook, Wolverhampton Flood Risk Alleviation...
Craig Tracey: ...Coventry being the city of culture. Does he agree that the bid gives an opportunity to not just Coventry but the wider local area to show what it is all about, including places such as Bedworth and Keresley in my constituency?
Craig Tracey: ...the protection of our green belt. I am fully aware that the NPPF puts great emphasis on that, and there has been minimal development on it under the Conservative Government. However, areas such as Keresley and Fillongley in my constituency live in constant fear that a perceived demand for housing, particularly under the duty to co-operate with larger neighbouring councils, puts their green...
Gregory Barker: ...Land at South Stane Farm, Shorts, Lanarkshire 0.00 15 February 2008 Land at Hill Street, Rhymney, Tredegar 45,000.00 31 March 2008 0.0002 Ha or thereabouts of land off Shaftesbury Avenue, Keresley End, Coventry, Warwickshire 0.00 7 April 2008 Camphill Estate, Nuneaton 0.00 8 April 2008 Site of the former 14 and 16 Ivy House Lane, Bilston, West Midlands 46,000.00 8...
Jim Cunningham: ...that it was there to stay. The hon. Gentleman must not distort the facts. The Secretary of State has sent a circular out to local authorities, but we want to know whether the Kings Hill and Keresley housing project will go ahead. I asked the Minister to clarify that last week, and I was told that Coventry council would be allowed to settle the matter. However, when the Tories were in...
Jim Cunningham: Has the Secretary of State had the chance to talk to her colleague in local government about the building of 7,000 houses on Coventry's green belt in Keresley and Kings Hill? Will she honour her pledge to stop that proposal, which was put forward by the previous Conservative-controlled city council?
Dan Byles: ...fire and rescue service, and I have been part of a local campaign for some time to fight a large, unsustainable and unwanted housing development on green belt land close to the villages of Keresley and Ash Green, near Bedworth. In addition, there are a number of national issues that I plan to champion during my time in the House-issues on which I know from the doorsteps I have the support...
Andy Burnham: ...(Library Option) — 13,591 2005-06 PFI Residual Interest — 165,000 Purchase of LIFT Co Equity 130,462 — Longford Furniture and Equipment 120,500 — Keresley Furniture and Equipment 20,964 — Longford Switchboard 33,591 — MHU—PFI IT Equipment (Library Management System) — 10,000 2006-07 (to 26 October 2006) PFI...
Mike O'Brien: ...night, I was at a meeting in a mining area in my constituency. The adjoining village lost its pit, and there was a devastating impact on the local community. Many relationships were fractured in Keresley End, where Coventry colliery closed, and we have seen problems with drugs and all sorts of social difficulties. Therefore, the damage done when pits such as Ellington close, and with what...
Mike O'Brien: ..., I was selected to fight the Warwickshire, North seat. At that time, there were four pits in the constituency, including Birch Coppice pit, which has closed, Baddesley pit, which has closed, and Keresley pit, which closed in 1991 with the loss of 1,300 jobs. Although there is a proposal from the private sector to reopen the pit, the expectation is that the reopened private pit may create...
Mr Dave Nellist: ...you notice, Mr. Speaker. Have you received from the Secretary of State for Energy a request to make a statement on the disgraceful announcement at lunchtime on the closure of Coventry colliery at Keresley with the loss in my city of 1,300 jobs? If such a statement were made, do you agree that it would be totally in order to point out that the problem is due not to the failure of Coventry...
Mr Dave Nellist: ...I have been down a couple of redundant slate mines. I promised to spend a day in a working pit before we reached Report and I did that as a guest of the management and trade unionists of the Keresley colliery outside Coventry at the beginning of May. That reinforced in my mind the points I made in Committee about the conditions of work for miners in British pits and the inherent danger not...
Mr Dave Nellist: ...and longest national dispute there has been in this country this century. About 9,000 people have been arrested, 600 sacked and almost 200 put in prison, including the four strike leaders from Keresley colliery, Coventry, last Wednesday. That has all occurred in defence of 70,000 jobs in their own industry and 85,000 jobs which were due to be affected outside the industry by the proposed...