News about topics or campaigns run or supported by Herefordshire Green parties.
Cycling Other Groups
7 May 2018 by
Hereford Civic Society Annual Lecture – A comprehensive consideration of cycling and cyclists in this country compared with Europe, by cycling experts: Brian Deegan – one of the UK’s leading street design engineers Jess Read – healthy transport engineer and urban designer Jesse Norman – MP & Highways Minister Hosted at the Hereford University Centre, Folly Lane, Hereford […]
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Comment Transport
Toni Fagan’s article in the May 2018 edition of The Hedge. Are we really going to build the Hereford Bypass through such a special landscape and ruin it forever? Wye Ruin It? Sometimes – often, we don’t realise what we have lost until it is gone. With this thought nagging me like a tired child I […]
Climate change National and global Planning
4 May 2018 by
The NPPF is an important piece of government policy. It shapes the way development decisions are made – for example on where houses can be built and what sustainable transport arrangements should be made. The current proposals (May 2018) to revise the NPPF include support for Fracking and restrictions on on-shore wind. Our brief submission […]
Big Green Conversation Peace and Defence
3 May 2018 by
Betty Hunter, Honorary President of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, spoke at April’s Big Green Conversation about Palestine and particularly how Palestinian children are treated by the Israeli justice system, police and military. She said Israel signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, but effectively treats Palestinian children as terrorists. Children […]
Climate change Other Groups
12 April 2018 by
A Divestment Training Workshop: join the fight to free the UK from its harmful investments and relationships with fossil fuel companies! Co-hosted by Herefordshire Green Network and Divest Parliament At: Garden Room, Left Bank Village, Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DG 7.30pm This free training event is our opportunity to learn how to lobby our MPs, […]
National and global North Herefordshire parliament
25 March 2018 / 1 December 2021 by
Bill Wiggin MP, has long campaigned for stronger regulation of the press. The subject tops his website’s list of campaigns. Private Eye’s recent report “HEREFORD BEEF” refers to his most recent Commons intervention in which he is highly critical of the Hereford Times. The Hansard record of the debate is here
19 March 2018 by
Presentation by Betty Hunter (Hon. President of Palestine Solidarity Campaign) 7 for 7.30 @ de Koffie Pot, Left Bank, Hereford, HR4 9DG Israel is denying the children of Palestine a future through military occupation and imprisonment. The international community must defend their rights. Israel is the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes children […]
Hereford & South Herefordshire Herefordshire Council Transport
15 March 2018 by
The consultation closes on Tuesday 20th March. An exhibition of bypass routes and possible improvements to support for cycling, walking and public transport will be open at Hereford Library on Friday 16th, Saturday 17th and Monday 19th March Background information about the Bypass, and an on-line consultation response form is on the Council website here. […]
Climate change Richard Priestley Transport
3 March 2018 by
Many countries are now setting themselves the goal of moving from petrol and diesel powered transportation systems to very much cleaner technologies. The UK, like many countries has set itself the goal of banning sales of new fossil fuelled vehicles by 2040. Norway plans to do so by 2025. Many people still don’t seem to […]
Badgers
21 February 2018 by
1000 – 1200 at Kingsland Methodist Chapel, Leominster HR6 9SG More about the project here
Big Green Conversation Transport
Herefordshire Council is pressing ahead with its plan to build a ‘Western Relief Road’ or as it’s now known the ‘Hereford Bypass’. This Big Green Conversation will discuss the proposals for the new road and bridge over the River Wye between Belmont and Breinton. And look at the alternatives. 7.30pm in De Koffie Pot, Left […]
Europe Immigration Robert Milne
4 February 2018 by
Robert Milne joined the Ecology Party in 1979, graduated in soil science in 2006, and published a book on organic vegetable gardening in 2010. He campaigns for food gardening to be brought into the school curriculum, and as you’ll see, has strong views on Brexit. What do you think? BREXIT If you have a medical […]
Ellie Chowns Herefordshire Council streets Transport
2 February 2018 by
Potholes and other road-related issues are high up my list of priorities at the moment, as residents often contact me about them. I have to admit I’m rather frustrated that we still don’t have a Balfour Beatty (BBLP) locality steward for the ward – I’ve got an ever-growing list of issues to take up with […]
Hereford & South Herefordshire Rob Palgrave Transport
1 February 2018 by
Road building is seldom off the agenda at Herefordshire Council meetings, and last month (January) the controversial subject of ‘The Bypass’ got a really thorough airing. On one side we had the Council (or perhaps, rather the Cabinet) who want a sort of M25 for Hereford. On the other was a determined group of activists […]
Ellie Chowns Herefordshire Council Public services
My first full Council meeting was last Friday, and it had a full agenda: setting the 2018/19 budget (including the proposed 4.9% rise in Council Tax) and approving the Capital Programme, as well as approving the continuation of the Council Tax reduction scheme. I voted for the latter, but did not feel able to support […]
31 January 2018 by
I met the Head of Highways, Clive Hall, last Friday, which was very helpful. One of the things we talked about was learning lessons from the A4103 resurfacing road closures in autumn 2017. Clive explained some of the background (including the delays due to the unexpected General Election purdah period), and I made two main […]
Housing Press releases Rob Palgrave
25 January 2018 by
Badgers Other Groups
29 November 2017 by
Herefordshire Badger Vaccination Group needs more activists. Many core members are getting older, and lugging heavy cages about and turning up at the crack of dawn to check them for badgers is not as easy as it used to be! We are looking for people who support this alternative to culling to help with bait […]
Other Groups Trees
19 November 2017 by
Elections North Herefordshire
13 November 2017 by
Ellie Chowns, the Green Party candidate in the current Herefordshire Council by-election is working hard to reach voters and win back a seat formerly held by the Greens. Ellie is standing for election at Bishop’s Frome & Cradley, a large rural ward which straddles the A4103 Hereford to Worcester Road around Fromes Hill. For many […]
7 November 2017 by
Good news! The press release below from IOC confirms they are standing aside in favour of Ellie Chowns. Ellie contested the seat in May 2015, the sole challenger to Conservative Patricia Morgan, and captured 31% of the vote. This time both Labour and Lib Dems are also standing, but they have a poor record in […]
Elections Herefordshire Council
20 October 2017 by
Ellie Chowns is our candidate in the Herefordshire Council by-election at Bishop’s Frome & Cradley on 23 November. Ellie first contested the seat for the Greens in May 2015 as the sole challenger to the Conservatives. She said: “I gained a very encouraging share of the vote in the last local election and people have […]
economy Press releases Rob Palgrave
Full text: Apart from the Greens, all political parties say economic growth is essential. And many Councils, like Herefordshire, list economic growth among their key objectives. What do we mean by economic growth? If we mean an end to poverty and inequality – a fairer share of wealth for everyone, then good. If we simply […]
Elections Herefordshire Council North Herefordshire
16 October 2017 by
The by-election follows the recent resignation of Conservative Councillor, Patricia Morgan. Ellie’s message to all ward residents: *I will back you up at every turn. I have the right skills to serve you well. I have over 20 years of experience in representing people whose voices were not heard when I worked for charities. Our […]
