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16 July 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The green movement in the North East in general and Tyneside in paricular scarcely appears in standard histories of the area. Yet it has existed for many years, green movement in the North East in general and Tyneside in particular. Indeed one of the fist mass movements with a strong environmental element was the local […]
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20 June 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
It is a bad day for Newcastle, for ordinary citizens of the city and for critical wildlife habitat when a Labour-dominated council and its planning committee back what is actually a speculative business development in Green Belt land at Woolsington Hall. It is a scheme by tycoon Sir John Hall that will only cater for […]
30 April 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
A battle is brewing over the future of long established woodlands on the NW edge of Newcastle at Woolsington Hall. The owner, Cameron Hall Developments, has put forward a wholly unsustainable and socially regressive scheme. Despite the same old promises of ‘jobs and growth’, this development is the epitome of what the area does not […]
29 March 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The Green Party strongly opposes the new Leisure development proposed near the Gosforth Nature Reserve by the American developers ‘Max a Millions’. There are several reasons why this development is of the wrong kind and in the wrong place. Such land should be used to enhance outdoor opportunities (walking, jogging, cycling, wildlife conservation work, etc.), all […]
27 February 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
The rail network should be brought back into public ownership and the East Coast Mainline should not have been privatised again says the North East England Green Party. The North East Green Party urges the House of Commons to vote for the Bill for a publicly owned railway being presented by the Green MP Caroline […]
20 February 2015 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
County Durham Green Party is celebrating success following today’s release of the Inspector’s Interim Report on the ‘soundness of the County Durham Plan’, having played a central role along with other Durham groups in raising concerns with the plan. The Green Party, along with numerous other Durham based organisations and community groups, spent many months […]
13 November 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Shirley Ford, Green Party parliamentary candidate for South Shields, took part in More Power to the North? debate on BBC1 on 5 November. She challenged the lack of democracy in local government, with power having been centralised into the hands of cabinets of a very few councillors, and argued for a layer of community councils […]
22 October 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Green Dreams for Better Buses move a step closer Green Party welcomes yesterday’s decision by North East Council Leaders in favour of the regulation of bus services in Tyne and Wear.Affordable and reliable buses are a key part of Green transport policies, and are essential for encouraging the much more sustainable and lesspolluting option of […]
2 September 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Dear Sir/Madam In response to the article about food banks in the Saturday edition, can I make a suggestion? Lets cut through all the complexity, conditionality, sanctions and means testing of the benefit system and give every UK resident- man, woman and child- a Citizen’s or basic income, whether on no wage, low or high wage,carer, part-time worker, […]
12 June 2014 / 19 March 2021 by North East Green Party
Roads to Nowhere Green Party statement on Newcastle-Gateshead Core Strategy Examination and Transport Policy Planned new roads and new road lanes[i] are no solution Serious threat to public health from poor air quality caused by traffic levels 124 deaths occurred in Newcastle alone last year due to air pollution (4.9% of all deaths of people over […]