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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
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 The Countryside Alliance is part of a campaign to reduce VAT from 17.5% to 5% for all maintenance and home improvement work. The Cut the VAT Coalition believes that reducing VAT would help the Government achieve its target of cutting carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. It would also benefit millions of UK homeowners by getting rid of cowboy builders, helping those who cannot afford vital repairs to their homes, bringing our empty properties back into use and protecting the countryside.
Find out more about the campaign and sign the online petition with the opportunity to send a message to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling. |
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
 The Countryside Alliance welcomes the Planning Reform Bill and believes that this is a chance to make the planning system fit for purpose in the 21st Century. These long awaited reforms will make the system more effective and responsive to the needs of a modern society in rural and urban communities. |
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Tuesday, 27 March 2007 |
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 On Tuesday 27th March BBC Online reported on the success of the previous evening's Sustainable Communities Bill Rally in London.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
 The Countryside Alliance has warned that the already high levels of fly-tipping across the UK will reach epidemic proportions thanks to a massive hike in landfill tax in the budget unveiled on 21st March.
In the budget Chancellor Gordon Brown has hiked landfill tax beyond all previous Government targets. Whereas before the increased burden to business would have been 71% between 2007 and 2011, it is now a massive 166%, making disposal of rubbish increasingly expensive and fly-tipping increasingly appealing. |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
 Chancellor Gordon Brown has raised road tax for the “most polluting vehicles” to £400, generating criticism from the Countryside Alliance for this unfair and unthinking attack on rural Britain.
4x4s are used throughout the countryside by farmers and land managers as a necessity to travel across often difficult and isolated terrain, and are not considered to be either a luxury or status symbol. |
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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 The Countryside Alliance is extremely concerned about the Government’s plans to introduce road pricing in England and Wales. Further to all the other strong arguments against road pricing, the Alliance wishes to note particularly that;
1. Road pricing will put pressure on rural roads. The introduction of charges on main, artery roads will undoubtedly force cars on to our smaller, rural roads, displacing road traffic in to the countryside.
2. Road pricing will put pressure on rural housing stock. As people move out of areas affected by road pricing, this shall put great pressure on housing in those areas without charge. This might very well charge local people out of housing in the countryside.
3. Road pricing will put pressure on rural households. Statistics show that people who live in the countryside use their cars much more than those who do not. This is through necessity, not choice. Road pricing shall put huge pressures on the poorest rural families as the price of their often only means of transport increases to prohibitive levels.
The Countryside Alliance is urging all those who are concerned about the Government’s plans to sign the e-petition on the Number 10 website. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/ |
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
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 The Daily Telegraph's leading Editorial calls on the Government not to panic over the first outbreak of Avian Influenza in the UK and suggests that....ministers would do well to heed the words of Simon Hart, chief executive of the Countryside Alliance, yesterday: "Closing down large tracts of unaffected countryside could do more damage to rural communities than the disease itself."
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