After securing a major grant from the Government, local MP Tim Farron has today called on Cumbria County Council to use the money to protect rural transport in the South Lakes.
A grant of £288,000 has been given to Cumbria County Council by Lib Dem minister Norman Baker, to help develop community transport services across Cumbria . It is the second time the council has received funding from the Department for Transport since April 2011, when the council received another £288,000.
Speaking at the annual National Farmers Union conference, Farron urged the upcoming generation of farmers to be proud of their professions and pick up the plough.
Joined by fellow Cumbrian MPs, Farron affirmed young farmers, stressing that their futures matter. Advancing technology together with a rapid increase in food demand has led farming back to centre stage but inflexible routes into farming are discouraging young farmers from taking up the reigns. Farron aimed to combat the number of young farmers falling away from farming.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has welcomed today's announcement by Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg of a £1 million fund to get young people in Cumbria who are not in employment, education or training (NEET), earning or learning again.
As part of the Lib Dem's Youth Contract, the Coalition Government will target funding and tailored support at 16 and 17-year-olds with no A* - C GCSEs. Using an innovative payment-by-results system, the scheme is designed to help those who are most affected by periods of long-term unemployment.
Local MP Tim Farron has joined with campaigner Sue Sanderson to welcome news that the long running saga of Backbarrow Ironworks looks like it could be coming to an end.
A planning application has been lodged with the National Park authority to try and end the long running saga. Reno Global Ltd who are taking on the development, say the houses are for people living and working in Cumbria. They also say six of the homes would be for "local needs" and six would be "affordable housing". The houses are being proposed for the historic former Ironworks at Backbarrow.
Work to develop the site for residential housing and commercial use was halted several years ago due to the developer at the time running into financial difficulty. The site has been virtually derelict ever since but now plans are with the Lake District National Park Authority to bring the site back to life.
For many months Tim has been working with Haverthwaite Parish Council, local residents and the Lake District National Park to try and find a solution to the situation.
Tim said: "The Backbarrow Ironworks project has been stalled for far too long, stopping much needed jobs and affordable homes from being created. I share the impatience of local residents to see progress being made and it is vital that the National Park gives us a positive decision soon."
SouthLakesMP Tim Farron is offering Cumbrian musicians the chance to Rock the House by nominating themselves for a national competition.
Tim is supporting the second annual Parliamentary live music competition which is open to under-18s, solo artists, bands and live music venues.
With rock legends Alice Cooper and Deep Purple's Ian Gillan as its patrons, Rock the House was founded in support of theUKlive music sector to raise the profile of intellectual property rights issues.
South Lakes MP, Tim Farron, has call on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, to raise the lower threshold for income tax to £10,000 in next month's budget in the latest of the Liberal Democrats efforts to rebalance the tax system to benefit the millions of people of low and middle incomes, instead of the few wealthy millionaires.
SouthLakesMP Tim Farron has today said that new figures show that we need more truly affordable homes to allow young people to get onto the property ladder.
According to the Halifax bank, there are only two areas in theUKto increase house prices which were Rochford in Essex andSouth Lakeland. Sixteen of the top 20 best performing areas were in southernEngland.
With only 12 days to go till a major march through Kendal to try and convince NHS bosses to bring radiotherapy South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called on local residents to come and make themselves heard.
The demonstration is happening on Saturday 3rd March starting at 12:30pm at Abbott Hall park, moving through the Arch, onto Dowkers Lane and then onto Highgate. The march will then move down Highgate, finishing at the Birdcage in the centre of Kendal.
Cumbrian MP, Tim Farron, has used a written parliamentary question to gain assurances from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs that conventional caged hen eggs coming from EU nations that are not compliant with the 2012 EU Egg Directive, will be traceable, in order to protect British Egg farmers.
Following the County Councils decision to finally drop their plans to charge residents for parking permits in disc parking zones, Cumbria MP Tim Farron has greeted this as a success for residents across the County.
Tim has previously slammed the Council's plans which were to bring in a £25 annual charge for residents' parking permits, which had previously been free as an unnecessary and unfair additional tax on residents.
