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18 October 2024 / 18 October 2024 by stuborthwick
In the first of a series of interviews with councillors for the Liverpool Greens, the local party’s press officer Stuart Borthwick sat down with Martyn Madeley, who represents residents in the Greenbank Park ward in the South of the city. Martyn Madeley (Greenbank Park Ward) Martyn Madeley is a busy man. Not content with representing […]
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2 July 2024 / 2 July 2024 by jarmank
The Vote Climate site (https://voteclimate.uk/) puts the choice down to just two parties in all five Liverpool constituencies in the General Election this Thursday. The Green Party is the recommended best vote for climate action in all five constituencies, with two of the seats listed as votes where the Greens could win the seat – Liverpool […]
20 June 2024 / 25 June 2024 by k4r3n
The election is just a couple of weeks away and here at Liverpool Greens we have been working hard on our election campaign. We are very pleased to have candidates standing in every Liverpool constituency. Who are the candidates? Liverpool Wavertree – Tom Crone Councillor Tom Crone has been holding Liverpool Labour to account since […]
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10 August 2022 / 10 August 2022 by pressofficer
Sefton Park Cricket Club are proposing to hold a series of events on their lower field, close to Mossley Hill Drive. This will result in the field being fenced off from 19th September, until into the New Year. The events are expected to attract between 2,000 and 3,000 people.
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25 July 2021 / 29 September 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party today (Monday July 26) warns that it’s less than a month to the ‘Great NHS Data Grab’ which threatens to share people’s most personal medical information with private companies. It urged new health secretary Sajid Javid to dismantle the toxic legacy left by his predecessor Matt Hancock by scrapping the proposed Great […]
21 July 2021 / 29 September 2021 by pressofficer
Green councillors today (Wednesday July 21) urged new Labour Mayor Joanne Anderson to be bold and back a ban on an international arms fair planned for October in the council-owned Exhibition Centre. They welcomed the Mayor’s recognition that Electronic Warfare Europe is a major arms fair bringing together weapons merchants and ‘some of the most […]
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24 February 2021 / 25 February 2021 by pressofficer
Dan Fieldsend and Cllr Lawrence Brown outside Greenbank Park Greenbank Green councillor Lawrence Brown today (Thursday February 24) called on the council to back local residents opposed to the extension of the Watering Can café into the local park’s memorial walled garden. Greenbank Park was bought for the people of Liverpool in 1897 from the […]
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23 February 2021 / 23 February 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool City Council Green Group leader Tom Crone today (Tuesday February 23) called for a ‘Clean-hands Cabinet’ to lead the city out of the chaos caused by Labour dropping Acting Mayor and two other leading councillors as candidates for elections in May. Cllr Crone said: ‘The city has been left leaderless and rudderless. Labour has […]
5 February 2021 / 23 February 2021 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party today (Friday February 5) called for May’s local elections to be postponed to protect the public and democracy. The call came after the Cabinet Office said the elections would go ahead but with restrictions on campaigning and support to get voters to the polls. The party, which is fielding council candidates across […]
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4 April 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, Rowan Williams, Margaret Attwood and others propose to tackle climate change by re-investing in nature’s solutions.
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11 February 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
A few weeks ago we reported that Liverpool City Council was planning to dispose of a Local Wildlife Site in Sefton Park to expand the Cricket Club. We provided details here. We’ve nothing against cricket as such, but protecting wildlife is essential, and Britain is one of the worst countries for destroying it. This article in the Independent describes why […]
29 January 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Wildlife Site In Sefton Park To Be Given Away By Council And Developed More green space is under threat in our city – this time in Sefton Park. Liverpool City Council plans to give an area of public open space in the park to Sefton Park Cricket Club. It will then be developed as an all-weather […]
18 January 2019 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Campaigners have won the struggle to save part of Calderstones Park. Redrow Homes applied for permission to build 51 luxury homes on the Harthill Estate. The Labour Council, led by Mayor Joe Anderson, supported Redrow, arguing that the land in question was not part of the public park. Liverpool Open and Green Spaces (LOGS) opposed […]
18 December 2018 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party members protesting outside the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority meeting about the lack of investment in cycling across the city region on Friday, 7th December, 2018 Cllr Tom Crone spoke to Radio City Talk. Have a listen: https://twitter.com/RadioCityTalk/status/1075020313438638081?s=19
1 July 2018 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Fair and effective local democracy depends on having certainty over who can stand and vote in local elections. Government should make a commitment, now, that all EU citizens legally resident in the UK should retain their rights to stand as candidates and vote in council elections after Brexit. An urgent commitment is needed because political […]
5 February 2018 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Normally we wouldn’t comment on the content of other parties’ leaflets but Greenbank Labour’s New Year 2018 leaflet contained inaccuracies which need to be corrected: Leaflet: ”Sefton Park Meadows’ to be designated as ‘Green Space’ in Local Plan’. We say: There is no such designation in the Local Plan agreed by the Council. The designation for Sefton Park […]
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13 October 2017 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party is honoured and delighted to welcome Tina Rothery to Friend’s Meeting House on School Lane to discuss her anti-fracking activism and explain how we can all get involved in the movement to stop Cuadrilla in their tracks! This is a public event and open to members and non-members. Please share widely! on […]
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12 May 2017 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Hi everyone, A massive thank you to everyone who helped during the campaign. And thank you to the 14,094 people who voted for us in this election. The turnout was a disappointing 26.1% over the entire region, suggesting a lack of appetite for a mayor in the devolution deal. We missed out on retaining our […]
14 August 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Green Party members were among the demonstrators opposing the closure of Sefton Park library at the weekend, one of eleven community libraries that are threatened with closure by the City Council. Following the publication of the proposals by the Labour dominated Council, the Green Party pledged to campaign to retain library services at as many of […]
9 August 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
The mayor is angry that the Greens are thinking of better ways to do things for the city and making a point of talking about them in public. We wonder if the mayor has lost his memory before writing this defensive piece regarding his and the Labour group’s decision regarding the Liverpool Library closures, where closing 11 out of […]
13 June 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
A petition launched by St Michaels Greens has reached 100 signatures, showing the support of Liverpool Residents’ for local libraries in the city. As discussed in a previous article, we believe that libraries are an important part of our community. The Greens proposed redirecting £1.634m from two separate funds which are used for optional discretionary projects and using […]
21 May 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
St Michaels Greens have launched a petition to save Sefton Park Library, asking Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson to reconsider the budget alternatives proposed by Liverpool Councillors. As the petition explains, Liverpool Greens believe that libraries are an important part of our community. The Greens proposed redirecting £1.634m from two separate funds which are used for […]
8 May 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
On Tuesday, Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett gave her full support to campaigners who are aiming to save Sefton Park Meadows from being sold for the building of luxury housing. Over 4000 people have already signed a petition to ask the council not to sell the prized piece of greenspace, described by Heritage England as […]
1 April 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
On Thursday 4th April Green Cllr John Coyne will be putting a motion to the Regeneration Select Committee of Liverpool City Council to ask the Regeneration Cabinet Member Malcolm Kennedy to suspend any action on selling off Sefton Park Meadows. You can email the members of the Regeneration Committee and ask them to vote for […]
