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28 January 2016 by sianberry
Nearly a million households – comprising nearly 2.3 million people – will be automatically represented by the London Renters Union if the Greens take City Hall, the party’s mayoral candidate Sian Berry will announce today. The Renters Union will enable members to organise to rein in private rents, expose rogue lettings agents and launch […]
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21 January 2016 by sianberry
Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry today welcomed the news that the government is transferring to Transport for London the responsibility for inner suburban rail services operating mostly or wholly within Greater London. She said: “This move will improve life for very many commuters. It will allow TfL to gradually take control over some suburban services […]
20 January 2016 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, today released her defence in support of the 13 activists accused of chaining themselves to a runway at Heathrow Airport to protest against climate change. In her statement, which was controversially ruled inadmissible by the District Judge Deborah Wright along with that of Shadow Chancellor […]
18 January 2016 by sianberry
Sian Berry today pledges that, if elected Mayor of London, she will form a consortium between City Hall, local councils and businesses to buy City Airport in East London and turn it into a new housing and business quarter. The airport is currently on the market for an estimated £2 billion and Sian Berry is […]
12 January 2016 by sianberry
Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry will join other leading Green Party politicians to support junior doctors on the picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital on Tuesday morning. Sian Berry, Caroline Lucas MP, party leader Natalie Bennett and London Assembly member Baroness Jenny Jones will join doctors who are taking industrial action over proposed changes to […]
11 January 2016 by sianberry
Responding to news that the government wants to bulldoze so-called sink estates in London, including Broadwater Farm in Tottenham, Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry today condemned this policy of “social cleansing” and pledged to oppose estate demolitions in the capital. “In the great majority of cases, demolition is not the right thing to do. Unless […]
3 January 2016 by sianberry
Abolish the zones and close the gaps with a one-hour ticket across all modes to give London fairer fares, says Green candidate Sian Berry, as our plans for bus, rail and tube fares are announced today. “We’ll level the playing field to make everyone’s journey to work cost the same, removing the hidden penalties if […]
16 December 2015 by sianberry
Small businesses should get discounted advertising space at their nearest Tube station to help support the local economy, the Green Party’s mayoral candidate said today. Sian Berry also said only firms paying the London Living Wage should be permitted to advertise on London’s transport network. She denied the plans would reduce income as extra space […]
11 December 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, will today visit the site of the South London Incinerator near Croydon and pledge to do whatever she can to halt the scheme if elected to City Hall. She will be accompanied by Shasha Khan, the Green parliamentary candidate for Croydon North since 2005, and a […]
10 December 2015 by sianberry
Shahrar Ali, the Green Party deputy leader and one of the party’s top three candidates for the London-wide section of the London Assembly, will tonight call on the Metropolitan Police to improve diversity among their officers to give them a better understanding of both extremism and Islamophobia. He will make the pledge at a public […]
5 December 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, will today announce a plan to help local authorities create town centre rejuvenation funds to be financed by large retail developers. With the backing of City Hall, the fund would be managed by the local authority and in collaboration with existing Business Improvement Districts. The work […]
3 December 2015 by sianberry
As Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, said on BBC News last night: “It’s a bit cynical to lump in things that are already planned like Crossrail and good things like cycle crossings and the Overground, which people have campaigned hard for, with road crossings that a lot of people don’t want […]
1 December 2015 by sianberry
“I’m amazed that London, which bore the brunt of the early Aids epidemic, still doesn’t have a memorial to the thousands who died” Sian Berry, the Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, has pledged her backing for a London Aids Memorial if she is elected to City Hall. She made the promise before a […]
19 November 2015 by sianberry
Sian Berry, the Green candidate for Mayor of London, has written to George Osborne in advance of his Autumn Statement on 25 November calling on him to scrap the tax relief which landlords can currently claim on mortgage interest. Berry says in her letter: “Using the proceeds from the cut in tax relief for landlords […]
18 November 2015 by sianberry
This week Caroline Russell, the Green Party’s No 2 candidate for the London-wide section of the London Assembly, visited Newham in advance of her election campaign. She issued this statement after seeing the double concrete wall cutting through Silvertown to create the route of the new Crossrail line. “This ugly, impassable barrier runs right through […]
17 November 2015 by sianberry
Caroline Russell, the Green Party’s local transport spokesperson and No.2 on the party’s London-wide list of candidates for the London Assembly, was one of several London politicians at a meeting organised by the No To Silvertown campaign in Greenwich last week. She issued this statement after the meeting: “I came to listen to residents and […]
The London Green Party today issued the following statement on the amendment to the order of its list of candidates for the London-wide section of the London Assembly. The Green Party uses Electoral Reform Services, an independent organisation, to conduct internal elections. On reviewing the result of our London Assembly list election it emerged that […]
11 November 2015 by sianberry
Reacting to today’s announcement by the Halifax that the value of homes in London is now almost double that of all the properties in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “It’s no surprise that London’s housing stock is worth the same as all the properties in vast areas of […]
10 November 2015 by sianberry
“If we fail to leave space in our city for creativity to flourish there will be no designers or artists left in London” Commenting on the news that Southwark Council has rejected plans to turn the old Peckham multi-storey car park into 800 artists’ studios in favour of a rival proposal from a Mayfair-based property […]
9 November 2015 by sianberry
Responding to Zac Goldsmith’s announcement that he wants to make it harder for Tube workers to go on strike, Green Party mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “My Conservative rival for Mayor of London says he wants to ‘protect Londoners from Tube strikes’. But Tube workers are Londoners too and threatening them is not the answer. […]
The Green Party’s candidate for the Mayor of London elections next year, Sian Berry, pledged to make City Hall drop its top-down grand projects, and set-up a unit to support community trusts trying to run the park and sports centre, library and housing estates. She met with representatives of the Crystal Palace Park Community Stakeholder […]
This morning Sian Berry, Green Party candidate for Mayor of London, issued the following pledges to mark Equal Pay Day, the day when women effectively start working for free for the rest of the year: “Half of part-time working women earn less than the living wage. London needs a Mayor who’ll stand up for women […]
6 November 2015 by sianberry
The Green Party’s local transport spokesperson Caroline Russell today expressed her support for the £42 million “Mini Holland” scheme in Enfield, known locally as Cycle Enfield, following the decision by the borough’s Conservative opposition to oppose the project. “Mini Holland has benefits for all residents and people working in the area who stand to gain […]
5 November 2015 by sianberry
Reacting to the news that people camped out in the streets through the night in West London in the early hours of Thursday morning just to have the chance to purchase a studio flat for £199,000 which won’t even be ready until 2017, Green mayoral candidate Sian Berry said: “If you want one graphic illustration […]