9th April 2025 / 10th April 2025 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party would like to extend our condolences on the sudden loss of Labour district councillor Richard Maisey, to his family and all of his Stroud Constituency Labour Party colleagues. Cllr Maisey was elected to Stroud District Council last year for the Severn ward, which includes the Parishes of Arlingham, Eastington, Frampton on […]
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2nd April 2025 / 3rd April 2025 by Susan Fenton
Labour canvassers in Stroud are telling residents that Greens voted with Tory councillors at Gloucestershire County Council to cut funding for Community Hubs. This is untrue. What actually happened during the Budget setting was this: Greens asked for amendments to the budget to give £420,000 to social and environmental projects. The Tories accepted our amendments. […]
2nd April 2025 / 2nd April 2025 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party has named its candidates for the Gloucestershire County Council elections on May 1. The party is standing candidates in all 11 divisions in Stroud District, and is confident that it can increase the number of Green seats on GCC (currently four). The Green candidates are as follows: Bisley & Painswick: Cllr […]
A donation of £500 has been made to the County Council election fund in memory of Gerald Hartley, who died last year. Gerald was a significant figure in SDGP’s elections successes over a number of years in the 2010s, serving as both Elections Agent and Campaign Manager, as well as standing as a candidate at District, […]
26th March 2025 / 26th March 2025 by Susan Fenton
The Green Party candidate for the Stroud District Council Stroud Central ward by-election is Cate James-Hodges. This will be the second time that Cate has stood for election to SDC. In the May 2024 local elections she came a close second: the results were David Drew (Labour) 408, Cate James-Hodges (Green) 326, Susan Cursham (Conservative) […]
The Green Leaders of Forest of Dean District Council and Stroud District Council have confirmed that they remain open to considering the options for one or two unitary councils in Gloucestershire. The proposals setting out the current options about how local government in the county should be reorganised, were submitted to the Government on Friday […]
14th March 2025 / 14th March 2025 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party has welcomed the “robust” response of Stroud District Council to the government inspectors who proposed withdrawal of the Local Plan last month. The letter from SDC addresses in detail every aspect of the issues the inspectors raised about the Plan, says the council is “profoundly disappointed” at the inspectors’ continued advice […]
10th March 2025 / 10th March 2025 by beckyhoyle
Friday 14 march 7-9pm : st laurence church, the shambles, stroud Stroud District Green Party are hosting a ‘Question Time’-style debate, independently chaired and moderated, to discuss the forthcoming local government devolution, and to hear the opinions on threats and opportunities it presents from an expert cross party panel of local politicians. If you value local […]
6th February 2025 by Susan Fenton
Gloucestershire Greens are delighted to have it confirmed that the Gloucestershire County Council elections are to go ahead, despite the council’s Conservative leader trying to have them cancelled. Adrian Oldman, coordinator of Stroud District Green Party, said: “Around the country, people are being denied a vote at local elections in May because the Labour government […]
9th January 2025 by Susan Fenton
We today issued the following press release as a response to the Conservative request for May’s county council elections to be postponed. Gloucestershire Greens say the Gloucestershire County Council elections in May must go ahead, for the sake of public trust in local democracy. The county’s Green parties – Stroud District, Forest of Dean, Cheltenham, […]
