Climate change Energy Fracking Hereford & South Herefordshire Topics
1 August 2016 by Green Party Admin
In July, Jesse Norman was appointed to a junior ministerial post (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State) in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. His energy responsibilities are Nuclear and Oil & Gas including shale gas. Soon after his appointment, we contacted him to seek a meeting, intending to discuss the Hinkley Point decision, and fracking, among […]
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26 July 2016 by Green Party Admin
Now the Brexit dust is settling, what does it mean for Herefordshire? The fact is, no-one knows, and we are left feeling a little confused and uncertain. But we can start by refusing the label ‘divided society’, and celebrate what we have in common, our caring communities, our beautiful countryside, our public services. We can […]
Energy Fracking Topics
23 July 2016 by Green Party Admin
The Ross Gazette reports that Frack Off Our Forest, a local pressure group, is urging Herefordshire residents to write to their local MP, Jesse Norman, if they believe that fracking should not be allowed in the Wye Valley or the Forest of Dean. It was revealed last year that areas of the Wye Valley and the […]
Farming Herefordshire Topics
1 February 2016 by Green Party Admin
Herefordshire Green Party councillors have criticised the way in which Herefordshire Council is handling the sell-off of the County estate, which was agreed in December, and have called for notices to quit to a group of tenants to be withdrawn. The Greens say a clear plan of action should have been drawn up, and a […]
Hereford & South Herefordshire Topics Transport
23 January 2016 by Green Party Admin
Herefordshire Council is currently consulting residents on its ‘Local Transport Plan 4’ which will have effect from 2016 to 2031. Local authorities are required by the Local Transport Act of 2008 to have a local transport plan. Hereford Green Party believes that this consultation has been made so complicated and difficult to use that very […]
Topics Transport
30 December 2015 by Green Party Admin
Dubbed the Road to Nowhere, Hereford’s Southern Link Road is appropriately making slow progress. The planning application – with around 500 written objections – was to be decided at a meeting of Council planning committee on 23 November. Now it’s delayed to sometime in 2016, as planning officers fathom out what to do about the objections raised by Historic […]
21 December 2015 by Green Party Admin
AREAS in south Herefordshire are now licensed for fracking following a government vote, reports the Hereford Times. The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean were part of the 159 Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences awarded for fracking across England voted through in the House of Commons on December 16. But before a licensee can start […]
19 December 2015 by Green Party Admin
Areas in the south of Herefordshire are now licensed for fracking. On 17 December, government announced that 159 Petroleum Exploration and Development Licences (PEDLs) had been awarded for fracking across England under the 14th landward licensing round. Areas to the south of our county, including inside the Forest of Dean and in the vicinity of Symonds Yat (known […]
Farming Topics
3 December 2015 by Green Party Admin
A Cabinet meeting of HCC decided on December 3rd 2015 to sell off all 45 of the Council owned small farms, totalling 4800 acres. This decision was made by the 7 Councillors who comprise the Cabinet despite an earlier recommendation of the Council’s General Overview and Scrutiny Committee (GOSC) to retain the estate and secure its viability through a structured […]
Bromyard North Herefordshire
17 November 2015 by Green Party Admin
The Bromyward Green group launched in 2015, and now have a core of five pro-active people, who usually attend meetings, which happen on the first Wednesday of the month at The Falcon Hotel, at 7.30. We firstly decided to tackle traffic calming in the High Street and Broad Street, as the speed of some traffic was […]
HEREFORDSHIRE Council plans a road linking the A49 from the Rotherwas link roundabout to the A465 for which it has now applied for planning permission. We believe the council’s entire transport strategy is very damaging to our economy, environment and health. They have ignored the requirement to attempt sustainable transport alternatives first – which we […]
Diana Toynbee Hereford & South Herefordshire
3 October 2015 by Green Party Admin
At a very positive and productive AGM on September 8th a large group of us reviewed the year, discussed priorities and elected a new committee. We are successfully maintaining our profile locally, and building on our excellent general election result. As well as preparing for local, national and European elections we are actively challenging the anti-nature, anti-public […]
Comment Diana Toynbee Hereford & South Herefordshire Public services
9 June 2015 by Green Party Admin
THE HEREFORD TIMES has recently been filled with reports about valuable services and projects that help the vulnerable: Citizens Advice Bureau, the Marches Access Point, and the Barnabas Deaf and Community Support Service. All reports had one common and dispiriting theme – because of funding cuts, the organisations are struggling to stay open or are […]
Fair votes Topics
30 May 2015 by Green Party Admin
The 2015 election has shown once again that our voting system is broken beyond repair. It denies voters real choice, produces unfair results and delivers unrepresentative governments. The current government has a majority with only 37% of the vote, and only 24% of the population when non-voters are included. Many of them don’t vote because […]
19 May 2015 by Green Party Admin
George Monbiot writes in The Guardian about the impact of intensive chicken farming and specifically mentions an application in Herefordshire which has thankfully been rejected, for now.
Hereford & South Herefordshire North Herefordshire West Midlands
9 May 2015 by Green Party Admin
GREENS in Herefordshire made significant progress in the May 2015 General Election, not only saving their deposits for the first time, but with South Herefordshire boasting the highest percentage Green vote in the West Midlands region. The full results were as follows:- Herefordshire North result: Daisy Blench (Green) 3,341. Jeanie Falconer (Lib Dem)5,768. Jonathan Oakton (UKIP) 6,720. […]
Leominster News North Herefordshire
DESPITE substantial ward boundary changes that looked set to benefit the Conservatives, Herefordshire’s 2 Green Party county councillors were re-elected with comfortable majorities. Jenny Bartlett and Felicity Norman of Leominster were celebrating success today after a hard-fought local election campaign involving many hours of canvassing. The results declared at the local election count at Hereford […]
Comment Diana Toynbee Hereford & South Herefordshire Ross-on-Wye
5 May 2015 by Green Party Admin
We had a busy and successful time at the Ross May Fayre. As expected many visitors were yet to decide how to vote, so our mini-manifestos were popular, helping voters from outside our constituency as well. A trainee nurse grilled us about our plans for the NHS, a man seeking doughnuts was given directions, and a […]
Comment Diana Toynbee Public services Topics
27 April 2015 by Green Party Admin
The Conservatives say we must race to ‘balance the books’, and cut even more, but the Green party believes a better way of rebalancing the economy is to invest in public services and in protecting the environment, also the mark of a caring, civilised society. I don’t want ‘the job finished’ if that means more […]
Comment Diana Toynbee
26 April 2015 by Green Party Admin
Do you want to be represented in Parliament by someone forced to put party politics above our needs, including voting for brutal cuts to Herefordshire council? This year you do have a choice – vote Green, for real change. Austerity has created anxiety and insecurity, but we don’t have to accept this. Government shouldn’t use financial […]
Fracking Herefordshire Topics
27 January 2015 by Green Party Admin
As far as we can tell, Leominster MP Bill Wiggin isn’t very bothered about the environmental impact of fracking in his constituency, according to this record of a vote on 26 Jan 2015. As far as we can tell, Hereford MP Jesse Norman didn’t even express a view, although we would welcome clarification from him […]
