Small Business Saturday: Green candidate for Mayor of London unveils chain-store levy to boost local shopping 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 […] Read more »
The 13 ‘new’ river crossings for London – a mixture of good, harmful and already planned 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 […] Read more »
Green Mayoral candidate backs long-overdue London Aids Memorial project 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 […] Read more »
Green mayoral candidate calls on Chancellor to scrap mortgage tax subsidy for landlords and to use the money to nearly double the affordable housing budget in London 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 […] Read more »
Shame on Crossrail for what they have done to Silvertown, says Green candidate 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 […] Read more »
“Going ahead with the Silvertown Tunnel would be immoral on public health grounds alone” – Caroline Russell 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 […] Read more »
Re-ordering of London-wide list of candidates for the London Assembly 17 November 2015 by sianberry 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 […] Read more »
Sian Berry: “With homes worth more than £1 trillion, London is wealthier than ever. So why do so few Londoners feel it?” 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 […] Read more »
Sian Berry slams Southwark’s plans for Peckham multi-storey 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 […] Read more »
Sian Berry: Tube workers are Londoners too, Zac 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. […] Read more »