Stroud District Green Party

For a Greener, fairer Stroud District.

Labour canvassers making inaccurate claims about Greens

/ 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. […]

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Stroud Greens name candidates for Gloucestershire County Council elections

/ 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 […]

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Generous donation in memory aids our election campaign

/ by Susan Fenton

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, […]

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Green Party names candidate for Stroud Central in District Council by-election

/ 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) […]

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Catherine Braun

Green Leaders in Forest of Dean and Stroud districts respond on unitary proposals for Gloucestershire

/ by Susan Fenton

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 […]

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Chloe Turner

Greens welcome Stroud District Council’s ‘robust’ response to Local Plan inspectors

/ 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 […]

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Local Government Devolution: a threat to our local democracy?

/ 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 […]

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County council elections to go ahead: Gloucestershire Greens react

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 […]

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Greens oppose ‘desperate and undemocratic’ plans to postpone Gloucestershire County Council elections

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, […]

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Local Greens with Zack

‘Greens can, and must, be a huge force in British politics’

/ by Susan Fenton

Green Party deputy leader Zack Polanski came to Stroud recently to meet councillors and supporters. He talked about – among other things – the national party’s growth, its successes locally, and our prospects in the Gloucestershire County Council elections next May. Interview by Sue Fenton. Q. Why do you like to visit local parties? A. […]

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