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16th February 2023 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Gloucestershire County Council’s four-strong Green Group has secured a whopping £400k of amendments this year. A residents’ e-bike loan/discount purchase scheme worth £150k will be rolled out across the county. The hire scheme is expected to allow residents to trial e-bike ownership over a number of months, with the option to purchase the bike […]
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23rd January 2023 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
The highlight of the Green Councillor year – the AGC Summer Conference – will be taking place this year from Friday June 23rd to Sunday June 25th in Sheffield, where we will be hosted by the City’s Green Group who are part of the city’s Ruling Administration. All Green Councillors are welcome to attend, whatever […]
2nd December 2022 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Green councillors in ruling administrations in England and Wales have written to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, [1] calling on him “to ensure proper funding of local services and… sound policy that works for people, not profit.” The Green cabinet members and committee chairs who have signed the letter […]
26th October 2022 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Leading Green Party councillors from across the country have today written to Grant Shapps, the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, to pause the Net Zero Review ordered under Liz Truss. They have described the current terms for the review as ‘a thinly disguised attempt to prioritise profit making over action […]
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12th October 2022 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Social rent cap must not leave councils out of pocket, say Green Party councillors Green Party councillors who are members of ruling administrations in England have written to Simon Clarke, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, asking for a guarantee that councils will not be out of pocket as a result […]
Green councillors call on local Tories to join them in disowning government attack on nature Hundreds of Green Party councillors have sent an open letter to local Conservative councillors in their area, calling on them to disown the government’s ‘attack on nature.’ Greens have decried Kwasi Kwarteng’s recent ‘mini-budget’ as a ‘three-pronged assault”. As the […]
9th May 2022 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
The Green Party of England and Wales is celebrating another round of record breaking local elections, with at least 542 councillors now sitting on 164 local authorities. The party has so far made a net gain of 75, gaining seats from Labour and Conservatives in areas as far ranging as Burnley, Hastings, Hackney, Somerset, Plymouth […]
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30th March 2022 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Changing our Council’s approach: community and climate come first This article, by Councillor Robin Bennett, Leader of South Oxfordshire Council’s Green Group – where the Greens share power with the Lib Dems – was published in GreenWorld on 29th March 2022 South Oxfordshire is a large rural district stretching from Oxford to Henley and the […]
28th February 2022 / 30th March 2022 by sallypickering
AGC Summer Conference 2-3 July 2022 This annual event for all Green Councillors at whatever level of local Government they sit, is a valuable opportunity to network, learn new skills and information to help you be a more effective Green Councillors but also to network, build a support network of fellow Green councillors and feel […]
Green Cllr Achievements
1st February 2022 / 30th March 2022 by sallypickering
Since the 2021 May elections, Greens made the largest net gain of council seats in local authority by-elections of any party. What is behind this extraordinary statistic, and how have Green councillors helped these successes to happen? There are complex factors at play here. Firstly, the sentiment on the ground is favourable to Greens: more […]
15th December 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
What Greens Can do in Power The AGC recently caught up with three of Glastonbury’s Green Councillors, Mayor Jon Cousins, Lindsay MacDougall, and Mike Smyth. Jon and Lindsay are also District Councillors and were keen to tell us about the difference having a Green-run Town makes. Greens started as a minority administration in 2015 and […]
8th November 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Green Council Leader wins prestigious LGA award Green Leader of Brighton and Hove Council, Phelim Maccafferty, has won the prestigious Local Government Association Clarence Barrett Award. The Clarence Barrett Award is the highest award presented to LGA Independent Group Members, and recognises those councillors who go above and beyond in their work, to contribute something […]
14th October 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Deputy mayor: Why I’ve left Labour, joined the Greens and ‘come home’ After making the ‘difficult decision’ to leave the Labour Party, Councillor Lorna Russell explains in her own words why she has made the switch Last night I took the difficult decision to resign from the Labour Party. This is something that has been […]
20th September 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Hundreds of voters who live in the Stroud area could lose their right to vote if the government’s Elections Bill, which goes back to the House of Commons for its second reading on 7 September, becomes law, Stroud District Green Party is warning. “The Bill’s stated aim is to ensure that UK elections remain ‘secure, […]
10th September 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
Nick Stapleton, elected as one of three Councillors to represent the West Malling and Leybourne ward in 2019, has today announced he has joined the Green Party. Nick is well known in the community for working hard to ensure residents have a strong voice, and for holding the Council to account. Now, he has made […]
9th September 2021 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
AGC Annual Gathering and AGM Saturday 11th September 2021 The AGC’s Annual Gathering and AGM will take place this Saturday, September 11th 2021, at the LGAI offices in London and also via Zoom.
24th June 2021 / 21st June 2023 by sallypickering
Bath and North East Somerset’s Councillor Joanna Wright has rejoined the party after a two year period as a member of the Liberal Democrats. Her defection resulted from disillusionment with the Liberal Democrats’ handling of active travel schemes on the council, which she considered to contravene commitments set out by the Party in their 2019 […]
15th March 2021 / 21st June 2023 by sallypickering
Green Councillors have had quite an influence on Council budgets across the country in this year’s budget-setting process. Where Green are in Power, they have been able to secure investment for ambitious Green Recovery plans. In Brighton & Hove, the Green-led Council has approved its budget for 2021-22 (with support from labour and conservative councillors), […]
4th November 2020 / 4th November 2020 by sallypickering
Cllr Simon Grover was asked to write a short piece about being St Albans District Council’s only Green councillor, and leader of the 5-strong Independent & Green group. Ever keen on recycling, we thought we’d pop it on here too. “I want to be in the room where it happens”, sings frustrated politician Aaron Burr […]
11th September 2020 / 19th March 2024 by sallypickering
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1st June 2020 / 10th June 2020 by sallypickering
Having thought we’d be able to postpone this conference and meet together in September, this is looking increasingly unlikely so we’ve decided to go ahead online in July as originally planned. The Programme Despite being online, there will still be opportunities to meet in small groups to meet other councillors and catch up with what […]
22nd May 2020 / 22nd May 2020 by sallypickering
Green Party councillors have raised serious concerns that some local authorities are using the coronavirus epidemic to avoid scrutiny over their decision-making. In a survey of 372 Green Party councillors representing wards on principal authorities across the country, more than half of respondents said the councils they were elected to were not maintaining proper scrutiny […]
6th May 2020 / 6th May 2020 by sallypickering
Councillor Charlie Hull has left the Conservative Party and joined the Green Party , becoming the first ever Green Councillor on South Somerset District Council. Charlie has represented Northstone, Ivelchester & St. Michaels Ward since his election in May 2019. local Green Party colleagues welcomed him this week into their “Green Team” and are very […]