News about topics or campaigns run or supported by Herefordshire Green parties.
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 […]
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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 […]