Sarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, has tabled an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to encourage more allotment and community garden land, as part of the Government’s planning reforms.
The UK currently has a shortage of allotments, despite high demand. An estimated 90,000 people are on a waiting list.
She has been working with Mike Farrell, local Rotherham Resident and Chair of the National Allotment Society (NAS), to campaign for the changes.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham will seek to amend the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to prevent unscrupulous developers from exploiting loopholes in planning legislation to by-pass scrutiny for landfill sites.
Sarah has tabled an amendment that will cause un-utilised planning permission for landfill sites to lapse should the site be dormant for more than 10 years.
Sarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, was one of 12 MPs who questioned the Prime Minister in today’s Liaison Committee session. This in her capacity as Chair of the International Development Select Committee.
She grilled the Prime Minister on a range of topics; from refugee costs in the UK, to the effectiveness of taxpayer money spent on overseas aid.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, has criticised Post Office Ltd.’s decision to move to a franchised model, placing Rotherham’s Crown Post Office branch at risk. Crown Post Offices are directly managed by Post Office Ltd. and offer a full range of Government services, such as passport applications, vehicle tax and driving licence renewals. Post Office Ltd. has announced that it is to move to a franchised model, with Crown Post Offices replaced with a franchised branch, potentially at a different site.
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, alongside the Rt Revd Dr Pete Wilcox, Bishop of Sheffield, met today with the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, to discuss an investigation into events at Orgreave on 18 June 1984. The site of the Orgreave Coking Works is in Sarah’s Rotherham constituency, and she has long campaigned for an inquiry.
Read MoreSarah Champion, member of Parliament for Rotherham, has welcomed the news that Greasbrough Primary School, Rockingham Junior and Infant School and Thorpe Hesley Primary School are part of the first wave of Labour’s new school-based nurseries, giving children the best start in life and getting them ready for school.
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