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Newcastle’s Labour MP Farrelly has issued a formal complaint to the Borough Council over its insistence on withholding key details of the scope of its controversial plans to sell off green spaces and playing fields.

Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has demanded that the Borough council withdraw the first two planning applications for housing on public ‘green spaces’, pending proper public examination of secret Council decision-making.

Brick-maker Ibstock has submitted radically changed plans for the development of its Knutton quarry in Newcastle-under-Lyme, ditching proposals to leave a vast lake afterwards in response to local concerns about safety and flooding.

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has welcomed a £1 million investment programme to stem noxious smells from the Walley’s quarry landfill site at Knutton.

Controversial proposals to extend a clay quarry in Newcastle and create a huge lake on the site have come under renewed criticism from local MP Paul Farrelly.

Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly has asked the government to intervene in Tesco’s plans to redevelop its huge, 24-hour superstore at Trent Vale, taking the decision out of the hands of Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

A group of residents in Newcastle have won the support of local MP Paul Farrelly after launching a community campaign to combat the catastrophic decline in wild bees.

Council leaders are coming under renewed pressure to tackle an underground fire which has been burning for three years in a Newcastle woodland.