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 […]
Category: Campaigns
City left leaderless and rudderless as Labour descends into chaos
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 […]
Green candidates call for elections delay to protect public after campaigning ban
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 […]
New Campaign: Natural Climate Solutions
George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, Rowan Williams, Margaret Attwood and others propose to tackle climate change by re-investing in nature’s solutions. […]
Sefton Park: Council goes ahead despite it all
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 […]
Sefton Park area under threat
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 […]
Erection of luxury homes rejected
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 […]
Green Party members at LCRCA cycle protest
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 […]
Petition – Preserve the rights of EU citizens to stand and vote in local elections
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 […]
Sefton Park Meadows – The Facts
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 […]