Watch Nick Clegg deliver his keynote speech to the Liberal Democrat Autumn Conference 2014.

ORIGINALLY POSTED BY THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ON 05 OCTOBER, 2010 Liberal Democrats have long campaigned to reform the Housing Revenue Account subsidy and replace it with a fairer system. We’ve now been able to deliver on that pledge in government. The unpopular “Tenant Tax” will be scrapped, with local authorities being allowed to keep all council house […]

“It is grossly unfair that a family with a three-bed house in Sheffield pay the same amount of tax as a billionaire oligarch on his million pound mansion in Kensington. A mansion tax is an effective and fair way of ensuring that those at the top of the wealth scale pay their share just as […]

Sheffield City Council have faced fresh pressure to drop its inflation-busting rent rise as Council budget papers revealed a £10m surplus in its housing account. A budget monitoring report, agreed by the Council’s Cabinet last week, reveals that Sheffield’s Housing Revenue Account is predicted to generate a £10.2 million surplus – an unexpected £4.3 million […]

Council tenants across Sheffield were left outraged as it transpired that their inflation-busting rent hike will be blown on a £2 million council IT bill. The £2.1 million IT bill, agreed by the Council’s Labour Cabinet last week, includes the purchase of 300 laptops or i-pad-style tablets for council staff. The revelation follows a controversial […]

Labour-controlled Sheffield City Council have come under renewed pressure to reduce their proposed inflation-busting 6.2% rent hike for local council tenants, after it emerged that a fellow Labour council elsewhere in the country have announced plans for a 1.5% increase. Labour-controlled Dudley Borough Council will curb council housing rent hikes, and in doing so have […]

Opposition Lib Dem councillors have presented a plan to avoid a proposed 6.2% hike in council rents – protecting residents from an average rise of £216. However, the fully-costed plan, which would have halved the proposed hike to 3.1%, was voted down by Labour councillors at a Full Council meeting on Wed 5th Feb. The […]

Sheffield’s Liberal Democrat councillors have temporarily blocked a proposed 6.2% rent hike for local council tenants in a bid to curb the Labour Council’s inflation-busting increase, which would see the average rent bill go up by £216 a year. Following the provisional approval of the rent bombshell by the Council’s Labour Cabinet earlier this week, […]

Action by Liberal Democrats in Government has seen 820 homes in Sheffield brought back into use since 2010. The revelation comes as Sheffield was granted almost £6 million through the latest round of the Government’s New Homes Bonus. Government action on empty homes includes grants to charities for work, the New Homes Bonus, which rewards […]