Ellie Chowns Herefordshire Council North Herefordshire
30 May 2018 by
Last Friday’s Annual Meeting of Herefordshire Council (25 May 2018) approved various positive changes to the Constitution. One very good set of changes will improve the process for public questions: the word limit per question has been doubled to 140, the six-questions-per-person-per-year limit has been changed to one-question-per-person-per-meeting, and responses to questions will now be […]
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Big Green Conversation
24 May 2018 by
Kate Adams (Wye & Usk Foundation) and Caroline Hanks (local farming advisor on soil and meadows) led the latest BGC and gave a fascinating presentation. Their topic “LOVE SOIL – Healthy soil for healthy crops, healthy livestock and healthy rivers” Since the intensification of farming, soil has not been managed well, but things are looking […]
Local News
22 May 2018 by
Looking forward to the May 2019 County Council elections Discussion led by Perry Walker 7.30pm, Garden Room, Left Bank Hereford
North Herefordshire Press releases
15 May 2018 by
North Herefordshire Green Party is calling on the head of the Forestry Commission to halt plans for large-scale commercial development in Mortimer Forest. The Greens are asking commission chairman Sir Harry Studholme to intervene and scrap “damaging” plans for 68 holiday houses on 125 acres of forest below High Vinnalls close to the Herefordshire-Shropshire border. […]
Leominster News North Herefordshire Town and Parish Councils
Green Party town & county councillor Jenny Bartlett, has been installed as the 464th Mayor of Leominster. She is the second Green mayor of the town in four years (the term of office is one year). In her acceptance speech, Jenny said she will treat the job as a much more than a ceremonial role and […]
12 May 2018 by
Talk and discussion, jointly led by Kate Adams of Wye and Usk Foundation and Caroline Hanks of Herefordshire Meadows “Healthy soil underpins our agriculture, horticulture and ecosystems – but it’s a topic that’s often undervalued. We will explore the importance of soil health and water quality to Herefordshire’s economy; what are the challenges and solutions […]
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 […]
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 […]
