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Big Green Conversation Fair votes Hereford & South Herefordshire Rob Hattersley Topics
9 January 2017 by Green Party Admin
An innovative Hereford discussion cafe event is hosting a top campaigner with Make Votes Matter, the national fair votes alliance, on Wednesday 25th January at 7.30pm. Klina Jordan will be at De Koffie Pot to lead a discussion on different voting systems and how reform could ensure everyone’s voices are heard. Entry is free and […]
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Climate change Cycling Health and NHS Hereford & South Herefordshire Rob Hattersley Topics Transport
The news that Herefordshire Council has again failed to get funding to progress a bypass should make us all stop to think. Do we want to solve our traffic problems right now, or would we prefer to suffer another 20 years in traffic jams as we wait for them to find the money? Most of […]
National and global Topics Transport
3 January 2017 by Green Party Admin
In what is quickly becoming the only punctual thing about our privatised rail system, the annual increase in rail fares came into effect yesterday. This year, prices have gone up by 2.3%. And in the last decade, fares have gone up at twice the rate of wages. This is effectively forcing people off the railways, […]
economy Health and NHS Hereford & South Herefordshire Public services
Come along for an upbeat evening workshop exploring the realities behind austerity on Wednesday 18th January at 7.30pm. This session will be presented by Charles Grimes of Positive Money, and is the first of the new year’s Politics & Ethics evenings at De Koffie Pot from our friends at Herefordshire Green Network. Every Wednesday evening […]
Culture Leominster News North Herefordshire
Leominster Green Town Councillor Trish Marsh thinks Leominster can be part of the action, if Hereford wins UK City of Culture for 2021, a year when the city hosts the prestigious Three Choirs Festival. Trish is already the Town Council’s link in the Herefordshire Cultural Partnership. Hereford’s bid is the first of its kind, because […]
Bromyard North Herefordshire Transport
29 December 2016 by Green Party Admin
In the early part of the Summer, we carried out a survey, asking a cross section of the residents about traffic calming ideas in the High Street and Broad Street. They voted in favour of a 20 m.p.h. speed limit and to restrict H.G.V.s in this area. We documented the results and passed them onto […]
Hereford & South Herefordshire Herefordshire Topics Transport
22 December 2016 by Green Party Admin
Marches LEP and Herefordshire Council are pressing ahead with their scheme to build Hereford’s north-south bypass, including a new crossing of the river Wye to the west of the city. They applied to the Department for Transport for funding (c £1.9m) to help develop the Outline Business Case and the planning application. The application documents […]
Elections Leominster News North Herefordshire West Midlands
Due to the sad recent death of one of our County Councillors, there will be a by-election in Leominster in the New Year. We will be calling on as many of you as possible for help. Although we do not have scheduled local elections in Herefordshire next year, our neighbouring counties will be very busy and have been […]
At Bromyard Greens meeting on 1st February, we have invited Gordon Coppock, who has an interest in and has invested much time in various alternative energy projects, which includes producing an electric car, which he put together here in Bromyard. Some of the parts were made by a local firm. We have a Speed Festival here […]
Fracking Herefordshire National and global Topics
Opponents of shale gas in the west country are celebrating a series of recent council votes against fracking. In the past fortnight, Conservative-controlled Gloucestershire and Herefordshire County Councils have backed anti-fracking motions while Forest of Dean District and Watchet Town Councils have declared themselves Frack Free Zones. Read a full report here.
