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3 February 2003 by sianberry
Jenny believes that the £200m project will provide at least 50 million passengers a year with a more reliable and sustainable form of transport, but TfL have to provide the money and imagination to meet many of the community’s demands, such as traffic calming. Overall, there will be less traffic on Ealing’s roads, due to […]
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29 January 2003 by sianberry
Jenny is calling for the renationalisation of the rail network and for schemes like Thameslink 2000, Orbirail and the East London Line Extension to be funded by scrapping the national road building plan. The cash-strapped SRA is due to issue a cut down version of its strategic plan, which could threaten the building of long-promised […]
Campaigners have recently been fighting the council over the future of Paterson Park, Canada Water and the Downtown area green space. People in Southwark still have until the middle of February to respond to the council’s Supplementary Planning Guidance on open spaces. Southwark has one designated Local Nature Reserve, at Sydenham Hill Wood. The Greens […]
Mayor Livingstone’s own Waste Strategy clearly states that councils must provide all properties with a kerbside collection of at least three materials by 1 April 2004 but Lewisham Council is planning to renege on this and is committed only to a collection for paper by that date. In a formal question to Mayor Livingstone, Darren […]
28 January 2003 by sianberry
Mayor Livingstone is due to consult people in East London about the proposed motorway bridge and this raises concerns for Greens. Jenny argues that the Mayor has no clear idea of how the local toll scheme will work, who it will affect and how much it will cost to run, this will allow people to […]
23 January 2003 by sianberry
Jenny says, “The sheer number who signed-up to volunteer to be human shields shows the desperate outrage people are feel over the prospect of war. The Green Party is the only political party in Britain which has consistently opposed this unjust and immoral war against Iraq. US and British led sanctions have already murdered around […]
Commenting on the Mayor’s Draft Energy Strategy launched on 21 January, Victor Anderson, Environment Advisor to the Mayor said, "I want to see the Mayor using his planning powers to turn down all planning applications for new office blocks in London powered by yesterday’s polluting fossil fuels.” Victor added, “The Mayor’s Draft Energy Strategy is […]
Darren Johnson is holding firm to his accusation that the Mayor is ‘squandering’ London’s wildlife budget. The row ensued after the London Assembly Green Party Group proposed to cut the Mayor’s subsidy for London Zoo and switch the money to practical nature conservation work. It emerged that only £51,000 of the Mayor’s environmental budget is […]
22 January 2003 by sianberry
Darren Johnson, Leader of the Green Party Group said, “Our budget proposals help set out a radical Green vision for London with major spending on social, environmental and transport initiatives. Furthermore, our proposals would mean a precept rise of only 20% for Council Tax payers compared to the Mayor’s proposed rise of 38.4%” Jenny Jones, […]
21 January 2003 by sianberry
Jenny Jones, Green Party Assembly Member, supports the Mayor’s policy of impounding the vehicles of drivers who refuse to pay three sets of congestion charge fines, but wants Ken Livingstone to nip any protest campaign in the bud by taking an even harder line. Calls for non payment have come from Conservative Assembly Member, Angie […]