Michael Fabricant has written to ministers at the Department of Communities and Local Government following reports in a Sunday newspaper. "Plans for the so-called new eco-town show that the 5000 home town is not even ‘eco’" says Michael Fabricant. "The Government’s unpopular plans to ride roughshod over local planners who share my concern over the […]
Opinion by Michael Fabricant MP. EXPOSING THE STARK CONTRASTS BETWEEN TB AND GB Three months into Tony Blair?s premiership, Ken Clarke was asked whether he would make a good Prime Minister. Ken Clarke answered ?Ask me when he has had to deal with a crisis?. I am unaware if Ken was ever asked again. But […]
Michael Fabricant opened the bridge at Barton Marina on Saturday 26th April which gives the local community of Barton Under Needwood safe cycle and pedestrian access to the complex. This was Michael’s first extensive visit to the site and was delighted with what he saw. He praised the owner of Barton Marina, Barry Morgan for […]
Opinion by Michael Fabricant MP THATCHER WON THE BATTLE OF IDEAS Andrew Marr, the former BBC chief political reporter and Guardian columnist, recently concluded in his political history of the 20th century, that we are all Thatcher’s children. Andrew Marr was right. After all, for months Brown tried every which way he could to avoid […]
Lichfield Cathedral will form the centrepiece and be the definitive 1st class stamp on a new range of British postage stamps to be issued by the Royal Mail on May 13th. "I am delighted that Lichfield will be promoted in this way. We have had success with the issue of a 50p Dr Johnson coin […]
Michael Fabricant, who is President of the Lichfield Camera Club, has had a photograph chosen for exhibition in the House of Commons. "It was on a trek in Guatemala a couple of years back. A friend and I were waiting for a boat to take us across a lake which is fringed by volcanoes. The […]
Commenting on the application by the consortium RPS for a 5,000 home development at Curborough near Lichfield, Michael Fabricant says: "This development – the largest of its kind in the West Midlands – is an opportunistic attempt to cash in on the Government’s plans for an eco-town and would be disastrous for the Curborough and […]
A report by the Health Commission into Staffordshire Ambulance Service due to be circulated on 8th April and released publicly on 9th April has been slammed for bias by the former Chief Executive of the Staffordshire Ambulance Service, Roger Thayne. He says: "It is fairly inaccurate and one sided and sets out to cast doubt […]
Further to the News Release below of 2nd April (see link below), it has now been confirmed by the Department of Communities and Local Government that Curborough/Fradley has been included in the list of 15 possible locations for an ‘eco town’ Michael Fabricant now says: "I will now speak with councillors in the local planning […]
Michael Fabricant, and other Members of Parliament, has received a letter today from Caroline Flint, Minister for Housing and Planning, (reproduced below) regarding the forthcoming announcement of 15 potential locations for eco towns. It is probable that Curborough will be one of them. Michael says: "I oppose the location of a large eco town in […]