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14 January 2025 / 14 January 2025 by rebeccatully
The Herefordshire Green party Executive Committee have been planning and feasting this weekend – with a great spread of food, lots of company and lots of ideas for a great Herefordshire in 2025. Herefordshire Green Party focus on social and environmental justice, policies that improve the environment and wellbeing for everyone, and of course electing […]
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Stef, Green councillor and deputy group leader, has spearheaded a ‘bus summit’ agreed at full council in December ’24. This follows an agreement from the Department of Transport to allocate more money to buses in Herefordshire. Stef says “we need more frequent services, and greater connections when and where people want to travel and I’m […]
11 December 2024 / 11 December 2024 by rebeccatully
Ellie has been speaking out on flooding on behalf of local residents. On 17th October, Ellie raised the issue in Parliament and called for a debate on flood resilience. On the same day she wrote to the Secretary of State urging action. Ellie is calling for: Tackling river pollution is also one of Ellie’s key […]
1 December 2024 / 11 December 2024 by rebeccatully
In Birch Ward councillor Toni Fagan is delighted that, after much campaigning, Openreach will be signficantly improving internet access to Little Birch, Much Birch, Wormelow, and Orcop Hill residents who are desperate for a good broadband service. The upgrade scheme has already started and will be complete by the end of March 2025! “I’m delighted […]
22 November 2024 / 11 December 2024 by rebeccatully
Ellie: “On Tuesday, I met with a group of farmers from Herefordshire in Parliament to listen to their concerns about the Government’s changes to inheritance tax. Yesterday, I wrote to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, to urge her to meet with the NFU, to press for an urgent independent impact assessment of the changes, and to […]
7 November 2024 / 11 December 2024 by rebeccatully
Thanks to the hard work of our supporters Rebecca Tully won the by-election to succeed Ellie as councillor for Bishops Frome & Cradley ward with 60% of the vote on a strong turn out! Thank you to everyone for all the wonderful support and positive energy through-out the campaign. You can read about Rebecca and […]
12 February 2023 / 4 June 2024 by helenheathfield
The care services for adults and children, the cost of living crisis, river pollution and its consequences, roads and the state of Hereford’s athletics track all featured in council budget discussions on Friday as councillors spoke of the difficult decisions needed to keep council services operating as they reluctantly approved a 4.99% uplift in council […]
14 November 2022 / 14 November 2022 by helenheathfield
From a humble inaugural meeting on a November evening at The Saracen’s Head in Hereford, Herefordshire Greens have celebrated 40 years of political activism and success in the county. Forty years ago Herefordshire resident Guy Woodford placed a small advertisement in the Hereford Times, rallying those who believed in political solutions to ecological problems. The […]
4 May 2022 / 4 May 2022 by helenheathfield
Herefordshire needs to think strategically about its direction around food production if the county is to develop resilience to local and global challenges. ‘Diversity is the key to healthy systems,’ said agronomist and peer Natalie Bennett, last week in Kington as Herefordshire Greens celebrate their 40th anniversary with a discussion around agriculture and the state […]
10 February 2022 / 4 June 2024 by
Green Party parliamentary candidates in Herefordshire have questioned local MPs Bill Wiggin and Jesse Norman over their stance on the Partygate scandal following developments in Westminster this week. North Herefordshire’s Ellie Chowns said: ‘Our country needs a leader who can be trusted to do the right thing, to tell the truth, and to stick to […]
