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31st January 2024 by Susan Fenton
With the mainstream media filtering, misinterpreting, downplaying or even ignoring news about the environment, how much can we trust what we read in the papers? Honest and full coverage of issues like climate change is never going to sit well with the interests of corporate media owners. Much reporting is not grounded in research or […]
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12th January 2024 by Susan Fenton
Press release issued by the Leadership Alliance on Stroud District Council The leaders of the progressive alliance that runs Stroud District Council have welcomed the Conservative group’s request for an Extraordinary Council meeting about the Local Plan, saying it will clear up the misunderstandings and inaccuracies shared by Conservative councillors. The Conservative group petitioned for […]
5th January 2024 by Susan Fenton
Green councillors have called for central government funding for more council houses to be built, after the Government asked councils at short notice to commit to providing more houses for migrant families in 2025. Stroud District Council unanimously agreed at the full council meeting on December 14 to allocate at least two homes for occupation […]
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15th December 2023 / 15th December 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party has paid tribute to “irreplaceable” long-serving district councillor Norman Kay, who died in Stroud Hospital on December 12, several weeks after having emergency surgery for a heart condition. Norman had been a Green District Councillor for Nailsworth and Horsley since 2016 and took great pride in representing the community where he […]
15th December 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Council is to ask the government to make the ‘illogical and inconsistent’ voting system fairer for residents from overseas, after a Green Party motion was carried by at the full council meeting last night (Thursday December 14). Of the councillors, 25 voted for the motion and six against. There were 10 abstentions. The […]
7th December 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party says the government should offer a Small Business support package to help local firms thrive in their green transition. Parliamentary candidate Pete Kennedy, pictured at the local farmers’ market, said: “I visit independent businesses and social enterprises all around Stroud District and so many tell me that they want to make a […]
22nd November 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud Greens welcome the national party’s 10-point plan of distinctive tax and spend policies aimed at delivering a fairer, greener country. Outlining the plan, co-leader Carla Denyer said the chancellor’s Autumn Statement was “another failed opportunity to end the cost-of-living crisis, tackle the climate crisis and restore crumbling public services on which we all rely.” […]
14th November 2023 by Susan Fenton
Gloucestershire County Council is to serve more locally sourced and plant-based food in its staff cafés and at council meetings and events, thanks to a motion by Green councillors. The motion, calling for a sustainable catering and procurement policy, was proposed by Cllr Beki Hoyland (Green, Forest of Dean: Blakeney and Bream) and seconded by Cllr […]
1st November 2023 / 2nd November 2023 by Susan Fenton
The mainstream media narrative is that migration is a problem, that there are ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ migrants. Meanwhile, the tragedy of the small boats continues. Stroud District Green Party’s next monthly Cloud Café on Wednesday November 8 from 7.30pm to 9pm will explore the wider political, climate and economic context, acknowledging that the world as […]
28th October 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud’s Conservative MP Siobhan Baillie has been officially asked to retract “inaccurate and misleading” statements that she made about Stroud District Council in Parliament. In the House of Commons on October 16 she incorrectly claimed that the council is run by the Green Party and Labour Party. While this statement may be politically convenient for Ms […]
28th September 2023 / 3rd October 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud-based campaigner and Green Party member Val Saunders will be among the speakers at an online discussion about the government’s repressive attempts to undermine the independence of juries. The event, on Wednesday October 11 from 7.30 to 9pm, will describe how courts are restricting defendants from explaining their motivations, disallowing relevant evidence and stopping juries […]
14th September 2023 by Susan Fenton
The Green Party campaign to stop the government from scrapping vital water pollution rules has saved Stroud’s MP from having to choose between supporting her government or saving our rivers, says Pete Kennedy, Green parliamentary candidate for Stroud. The Conservative government threatened to remove legislation (known as the nutrient neutrality rules) that protects waterways from pollution created by new […]
29th August 2023 by Susan Fenton
A cross-party group of leading politicians have today united behind Stroud District’s draft Local Plan. The move comes after national planning inspectors suggested that it be withdrawn. Without a Local Plan the politicians say that Stroud District risks becoming a “Wild West” for developers – which would mean homes being built without the roads, schools […]
25th August 2023 / 4th September 2023 by Susan Fenton
The world needs an economic system that recognises the limits of, and is compatible with, the natural systems of the planet and the aspirations of the whole of humanity. That’s the theme of Stroud District Green Party’s next Cloud Café online debate, on Wednesday September 13 from 7.30pm to 9pm. Elizabeth Lee, organiser of the […]
21st July 2023 / 22nd July 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Council is to introduce a raft of new measures to protect nature and biodiversity, thanks to a Green Party motion that aims to make the district and the wider county a better place for wildlife, as well as a greener and healthier place for residents. The motion, unanimously approved at the full council […]
3rd July 2023 / 3rd July 2023 by Susan Fenton
Leading figures from Stroud District Green Party have expressed dismay that local communities are being separated in the final recommendations on parliamentary constituencies from the Boundary Commission. Under proposals laid before Parliament last week (recommendations related to Stroud constituency can be seen from page 219), Wotton-under-Edge and North Nibley will rejoin the Stroud Constituency, while […]
30th May 2023 / 30th May 2023 by Susan Fenton
The future with Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the subject of Stroud District Green Party’s next online Cloud Café debate, on Wednesday June 14 from 7.30-9.30pm. The event will discuss whether there are curbs on the advance of AI and whether we can trust the tech companies and government. Questions that will be addressed include: […]
22nd May 2023 / 22nd May 2023 by Susan Fenton
The neighbouring Gloucestershire towns of Stroud and Stonehouse both have Green Party mayors for the first time ever, following the unanimous election of Cllr Stella Parkes by Stroud Town Council and Cllr Carol Kambites by Stonehouse Town Council. Both were elected on May 15 at the annual meetings of their respective councils. It is the […]
18th May 2023 / 18th May 2023 by Susan Fenton
The Green Party co-leader, Carla Denyer, came to Stroud today (May 18) to celebrate the party winning yesterday’s by-election in the Painswick & Upton ward. Green candidate Gary Luff received 1,168 votes (45% of the total), beating the Conservative candidate (who got 817 votes) and becoming the first non-Tory to represent Painswick & Upton since the ward […]
25th April 2023 / 2nd May 2023 by Susan Fenton
Developing opportunities to solve the housing crisis is the topic of Stroud District Green Party’s next Cloud Café online debate, on Wednesday May 10, from 7.30pm to 9pm. The event, which is free and open to anyone, will hear from speakers from Britain and the USA about their experiences of alternative forms of housing and […]
19th April 2023 / 24th May 2023 by Susan Fenton
Interview by Pippa Audritt, photo by Martin Phelps In the latest in our occasional series about our Green Councillors from around Stroud District, we interviewed Beki Aldam, district councillor for Brimscombe & Thrupp and Chair of the Community Services and Licensing Committee on Stroud District Council. Beki is one of the 14 Greens on the […]
30th March 2023 / 30th March 2023 by Susan Fenton
Is the government’s new farming policy fit for purpose? That’s the question that will be explored at Stroud District Green Party’s next monthly online Cloud Café discussion. The event, from 7pm to 8.30pm on Wednesday April 12, will hear from four speakers about the Environmental Land Management Schemes (ELMS), which will pay farmers to provide […]
The £2 cap on single bus fares in Gloucestershire could be extended indefinitely, thanks to a motion put to the County Council by Green Party councillors. The cap, introduced on January 1 to help residents with the cost of living, was originally meant to end on March 31 but was recently extended to the end […]
14th March 2023 / 14th March 2023 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party has urged other local political parties to offer work experience placements for school pupils, to give young people an early interest in how politics works. This follows the success of the Greens’ latest work experience placement, when an A level student at Pates Grammar School spent half-term week shadowing councillors and […]
