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1 March 2015 by sianberry
Islington Green Councillor Caroline Russell welcomes the council’s decision to make fourteen in-house staff permanent who had been on agency contracts for several years, and cites it as an example of how a Green opposition can improve Islington Council. Islington Council this week made a budget commitment to give fourteen Greenspace agency staff full time contracts following […]
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26 February 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones joins the Mayor of London in criticising the Met’s change in protest policy calling it “a cost-cutting move that has backfired”. The new policy says the Met will not provide stewarding or traffic management services to enable demonstrations to happen. London’s deputy Mayor for policing admitted at this morning’s Police […]
Tom Chance, Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Lewisham West and Penge, welcomes the passing of the deadline for the ZhongRong Group’s deposit and proposals for the Crystal Palace Park, stating “park users will be delighted to hear that this deal has finally fell through”. Bromley Council’s deadline for the ZhongRong Group to put forward a […]
25 February 2015 by sianberry
A recent list released by Aviva reveals the top 10 areas of casualties in London, with only one of them being addressed by the Mayor’s “Better Junction” scheme. Green Assembly Member calls the list indicative of how little the Mayor has achieved for safer roads and how much work is left to do for the […]
20 February 2015 by sianberry
“The Mayor needs to urgently reconsider the geographical range of his proposed Ultra Low Emission Zone” says Jenny Jones as roads surrounding Heathrow are predicted to not meet legal limits for NO2 by 2030, with 50 other London road locations also predicted to be over the limits by 2020. New data released by DEFRA shows […]
18 February 2015 by sianberry
Mayoral projections estimate that manufacturing will have disappeared from London by 2062, but at the current rate it will have disappeared in half the time. London Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones hit back saying “London’s flourishing manufacturing base is being squeezed out by the Mayor, who is in the pocket of big property developers”. A […]
17 February 2015 by sianberry
“Many cyclists will enjoy a quieter, less polluted route, but many others want the directness and speed of the main roads” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones as the planned ‘superhighway’ route 1 from Tottenham to Liverpool will result in no safety improvement on main roads. Jenny Jones has questioned whether the Mayor’s new cycling […]
“Boris Johnson has spent £12m forcing thousands of young people to undertake pointless and unpaid work” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones after findings showed that young people that completed the ‘workfare’ scheme were half as likely to be in paid employment at the end as those who did not. Young people should not be […]
Co-chair of the London Green Party Caroline Allen says it’s “thrilling to be a part of this major milestone” as London Green Party membership hits 10,000 and the Green Party polls third in the capital. Membership of the London Green Party has doubled in the last 3 months A new member is joining the party […]
6 February 2015 by sianberry
Caroline Russell, Islington Green Party Councillor, welcomes the ban but warns that “we should not assume that lorry danger will be fixed (alone) by these new measures” and calls for the removal of incentives to drive fast, such as piece work rates for lorry drivers. From 1st September any vehicle weighing more than 3.5 tonnes […]
3 February 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson questions the decision to remove several hundred staff from the frontline of the ticket office, warning that “many station staff are going to be stretched to the limit”. Darren Johnson, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, has responded to the first tube ticket office closures today. South Wimbledon and […]
30 January 2015 by sianberry
“This trade deal is not about free trade, it’s a free-for-all, slashing regulations in favour of big business” says Green MEP Jean Lambert, who warns that the only way to protect the NHS from further privatisation is to stop the agreement. London’s Green MEP Jean Lambert will warn that a secret trade deal between the […]
“The Green Party believes a house should be a home to live in, not an asset for investors” says Co-Chair of the London Green Party Tom Chance, as the Green Party announce they will join protesters this Saturday against the soaring housing prices in London. The Green Party will be joining thousands of protesters across […]
29 January 2015 by sianberry
“The Council should set a clear timetable for the review which must take place as soon as possible” calls Green Councillor Scott Ainslie, as in light of previous calls the Lambeth Council agree to review it’s policy. A review of Lambeth Council’s policy of sending in bailiffs when residents in receipt of Council Tax Support (CTS) […]
27 January 2015 by sianberry
“There are hundreds of dangerous junctions across all areas of London, but this Mayor will manage to finish ten by the time he leaves” says Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson, who welcomes the green light for the East-West Cycling Superhighway and calls for more similar projects to progress. Darren Johnson has welcomed the go ahead for the […]
26 January 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Baroness Jenny Jones calls for the Mayor of London to support her draft ‘Mayoral Decision’ to support wider solar energy implementation in London, as a clean renewable alternative to proposed fracking plans. New Feed-in-Tariff statistics published (23rd Jan 2014) on installed solar photovoltaics (PV) by the Department of Energy & Climate Change have […]
25 January 2015 by sianberry
Green MEP Jean Lambert speaks out against the ivory trade at a peaceful demonstration outside the Chinese embassy, calling it “shocking, cruel and unnecessary” and for the Chinese Government to put an end to its engagement in the trade. Wildlife is in crisis. The numbers of elephants lost to poaching is climbing ever higher. Clearly, urgent […]
21 January 2015 by sianberry
Lambeth’s cuts to Council Tax Support (CTS) is an “unbearable burden on those who can least afford it” says Lambeth Green Councillor Scott Ainslie, who calls their approach of issuing court summons to those with arrears involving CTS “self defeating”. The Green Party has called on Lambeth Council to stop using bailiffs in cases where […]
19 January 2015 by sianberry
London Green Party’s membership booms inline with the rise of the National Party, with the Green Party surpassing UKIPs and Lib Dems membership count and YouGov placing Green Party third in the capital. Membership of the London Green Party grows by over 2000 in one week Greens polling ahead of UKIP and Liberal Democrats in […]
12 January 2015 by sianberry
As reports reveal a 400% increase in right-to-buy fraud in London, Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson speaks out against the policy calling it a “disaster for London” and for the Mayor to “lobby for it to be scrapped”. An investigation by the BBC London ‘Inside Out’ programme has raised concerns that fast rising prices in […]
“We want to empower schools” says Green Parliamentary Candidate for Vauxhall Gulnar Hasnain as Lambeth Green Party are awarded £1000 to support local schools and raise awareness of pollution levels, including installing monitors to counteract Labour’s cover up attempts. The move comes after Labour in Lambeth refused to provide monitors, deleted references to air pollution […]
9 January 2015 by sianberry
Green Assembly Member Darren Johnson questions how the Mayor of London can reduce the pollution so drastically at one site, but not elsewhere. Results from the air pollution monitor station which the Government has previous described the most polluted hotspot in the UK has shown a sharp decline in the number of times it is […]
The Mayor’s proposed Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) needs to be “sooner, stronger and spread further” says Green MEP Jenny Jones, who calls for Boris Johnson to put funds raised by the existing Low Emission Zone towards expanding the proposed ULEZ. Responding to the Mayor of London’s public consultation on setting up the ULEZ, London […]
5 January 2015 by sianberry
As 2014 is set to go down as the hottest year in Central England in recorded history Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones calls upon the Mayor of London to stop “the buck passing” and to focus on transforming London into a low carbon economy. According to the Met Office provisional figures, 2014 is officially the […]