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11th July 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Gloucestershire County Council Cabinet continue to hide true costs and risks of Javelin Park
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14th June 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Stroud District Council principal planning officer Conrad Moore was presented with a Natural England award for strategies drawn up for how Rodborough Common and the Severn Estuary cope with rising numbers of people living nearby.
12th June 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
In March 2017 local Stroud Green Party member Tim Davies, submitted a Freedom of Information request to Gloucestershire County Council for a report they had commissioned from Ernst and Young on the affordability of the Incinerator contract. When this request was refused Mr Davies appealed to the Information Commissioner, who has just released her decision in his favour. GCC now have 35 days to comply or appeal the decision.
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2nd June 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Our Green MEP for the South West explores the likely impacts on Farming, Climate policies, Trade and more.
1st June 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Hugh Richards summarises the coffee house discussion of 13th April and highlights a number of different viewpoints
30th May 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Wotton Men's Shed opened its doors to Green Party District Councillors Jim Dewey and Catherine Braun, last week, to explain about the benefits to health and wellbeing that come with being a member of the ‘shed’.
25th May 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
John Marjoram argues for the campaign to cancel Brexit: mass demonstration on June 23rd.
18th May 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
The Green Party has advocated extending the right to vote and hold public office to 16 and 17 year-olds since mid-1970. All Green Party Councillors on the Stroud District Council were pleased to vote in favour of the motion to support the Votes at 16 Campaign at the Council meeting May 17.
Martin Whiteside, Leader of the Green Councillors on the Stroud District Council, announced that Cllr Karen McKeown of Rodborough has requested membership in the Green Party and is expected to join the Green Group.
9th May 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Today at a meeting of Gloucestershire County Council Environment Scrutiny Committee, Cllr Rachel Smith called for stronger measures to address air quality. Cllr Smith rejected the final recommendations of the Air Pollution Task Group as too limited, noting that they ignore key evidence presented to the group that shows we need to rethink transport infrastructure […]
27th April 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Stroud District Council (SDC) is joining around 200 other communities in the UK that are aiming to ditch single-use plastic. The motion had cross-Party support and was proposed by Catherine Braun (Green, Wotton-under-Edge) and seconded by Paul Denney (Labour, Cam West).
At all levels, Green Party members are standing up for public health care - free at the point of delivery - and delivered without discrimination.
24th April 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Green Party Councillor Catherine Braun (Wotton-under-Edge), is calling on Stroud District Council to become a ‘single use plastic free’ authority, by stopping the use of these products in the Council’s supply chain, and their sale and use at the council offices and events.
13th April 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Local Greens call on David Drew to resist any commitment to military action in Syria without consulting parliament
26th March 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Carbon Capture and Storage - Essential for our future, or a trojan horse for big oil?
17th March 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Stroud District Council has been praised for progress on house building. A recent article in Business West on the broken housing market highlights that "Stroud District Council are currently the only council in Gloucestershire actively looking to build new council homes. Until last year, Stroud had actually built more council homes than Bristol."
24th February 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Only around half of the 35 million plastic bottles sold in Britain every day are currently collected for recycling. The Green Party is calling on the government to urgently implement a bottle deposit scheme.
21st January 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Figures in Stroud higher than the national average for suicides, and self-harm among under 18s
12th January 2018 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Labour leader standing down for health reasons, Martin Whiteside pays tribute
8th December 2017 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
The day after the first UN Environment Smog Day, where we remember the toll air pollution has on human health and lives, the leader of the Greens at Gloucestershire County Council Rachel Smith, reminded members at Shire Hall on Wednesday that the council must go further to reduce its own environmental impact. “We’ve got to […]
25th November 2017 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Working collaboratively, Greens and Liberal Democrats aim to kick-start a Green transport revolution by bringing forward a motion (1) that will commit the County Council to move to using electric or low emission vehicles, as well as use its leverage with contractors to decrease reliance on polluting petrol and diesel vehicles.
23rd November 2017 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
Sale recommendation dropped after uproar
17th November 2017 / 30th August 2019 by timdavies
We strongly disagree with recommendations from the District Council's "Task and Finish" group and present our own recommendations.
"Unacceptably high number of collisions" justifies 30mph limit on A419