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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
