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23rd June 2022 / 23rd June 2022 by Susan Fenton
Cyclists of all ages are invited to take part in a community bike ride from Brimscombe to Stroud, which takes place on Saturday July 2. Arrive at 10am at Brimscombe Mills. Come on a bike for a free coffee or come along and borrow a bike from the Bike Drop if you need one. The […]
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29th March 2021 / 19th March 2024 by Susan Fenton
Greens are the fastest-growing party in the Stroud area, with an ever-increasing number of communities electing Green councillors to represent them. “We think more people are voting Green because they like the combination of social justice, environmental protection and our ability to get things done quickly and on budget,” said Martin Whiteside, who leads the […]
24th January 2021 / 19th March 2024 by Dagan Smith
It was great to hear that cyclists and walkers will benefit from Community Infrastructure Levy funding after the council agreed to spend more than £350,000 on creating or upgrading cycle paths in the district. May I suggest that some of the money is spent on improving and making safer the cycle route from Stroud to […]
5th January 2021 / 19th March 2024 by Susan Fenton
Stroud District Green Party has welcomed the local roll-out of Covid-19 vaccinations and has warned that the principle of ‘freedom of speech’ is being misused by anti-vaccination groups to promote dubious and selective information that stokes fear and distrust of science, medicine and public health measures. Professor Molly Scott Cato, a Green candidate for Gloucestershire […]
21st December 2020 / 20th March 2021 by Dagan Smith
The government has thrown out Stroud District Council’s request to allow it to operate a fairer voting system during next year’s local elections. At November’s full council meeting, councillors approved a motion calling for an end to the First Past the Post system, for councillors to be allowed to job share and for 16-year-olds to […]
Stroud District could be the location of a “groundbreaking” trial of Universal Basic Income (UBI) after the District Council approved the idea of running a pilot scheme. District Councillors Catherine Braun (Green, Wotton-under-Edge, North Nibley and Stinchcombe) and Trevor Hall (Labour, Dursley) proposed and seconded a cross-party motion to trial UBI – a non-means-tested sum paid […]
Stroud District Council’s Strategy and Resources Committee has unanimously approved the council’s Carbon Neutral 2030 plan, which is due to be considered at full council in February. The cross-party support for the plan, which is out for public consultation until December 16, was welcomed by environment committee chair Cllr Simon Pickering (Green Party), who said: […]
10th November 2020 / 19th March 2024 by Dagan Smith
Stroud Green Party coordinators, councillors and members were among more than 200 local residents who put their names to the following letter written by the Stroud Coronavirus Community Response team. The letter asked people not to attend the anti-lockdown rally that took place in Stratford Park at the weekend, and urged the organisers to withdraw […]
28th April 2020 / 6th May 2020 by Dagan Smith
Local Green District and County Councillors join over 100 MPs and Peers across seven parties for the introduction of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) in response to COVID-19. The letter to Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer was published in the Financial Times on April 22, 2020. The joint statement calls for a recovery UBI […]
