This is a strong budget in really difficult times and focuses on making Portsmouth a greener and fairer place to live. This is the first time in at least 30 years that all of the parties on the council backed the Liberal Democrat budget proposals.
Leader of Portsmouth City Council, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, called together both of Portsmouth's MPs to meet with, along with the Editor of the News and the Chair of Let's Stop Aquind.
Lib Dem Portsmouth City Council has secured a deal with Scottish and Southern Energy Network (SSEN) to provide shore power to ships visiting Portsmouth International Port. This means multiple ships can receive power from the local grid without running their engines.
This week, 292 Conservative MPs voted to allow sewage dumping by water companies in our coasts and rivers for at least 15 more years. In the last two years alone, water companies in England dumped raw sewage 775,568 times over 5,768,679 hours. The new regulations would permit dumping to continue for 15 more years.
Following the successful roll out of home food waste and battery recycling, the latest big recycling initiative by the Lib Dem-led Council is mixed plastic.
For years councils have been forced to sell off council houses and flats. It has been brilliant for the families that bought them, but the Conservative Government would not allow councils to replace the houses and flats sold off. Portsmouth sold off over 16,000, making it much more challenging to home homeless families. But action by the Lib Dem-led City Council is seeing a rebirth in the building and acquiring of council houses.
