Good news from the national Green Party’s Green Herald: Membership of the Green Party has been increasing more than any time since the 2017 General Election. Over 900 new people joined the party in December and over 800 joined in October and November. At the same time, the Green Party are polling higher than at any […]
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Green View in St Michaels Ward, January 2019
Green View in Greenbank Ward, January 2019 Edition
Green Party exposes Council attempt to flatten the Flat Iron
Preserving important green spaces Back in the summer of 2018, a resident tipped off Liverpool Green Party that a notice of intention to dispose of open space at St James Place had been published in the Liverpool Echo on 19th July, just as the school summer holidays were about to start – a time when […]
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Church of England in Liverpool to be an eco-diocese
Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, says ‘sustaining God’s creation is a massively important duty for all Christians. The world-wide Anglican church recognises this as one of it five marks of mission and in this year of the environment I believe it is increasingly important that the Diocese of Liverpool works together to make a difference.” An Eco Church […]
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Developers have withdrawn their proposal to build houses on the green space at St James Place, Liverpool
Liverpool City Council wanted to sell off the much valued green space in between Mill Street and St James Place, otherwise known as the Flat Iron. Beautiful, mature trees would have been replaced with buildings and concrete to create 430 units of accommodation and business space between 4 and 8 stories high, across 3 sites. We had […]
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Work is set to begin on the first phase of a potential 600km key network of cycling and walking routes across the Liverpool City Region. Proposals for the 600km network is based on upgrades to around 31 key routes across the Liverpool City Region over the next 10 years.Bidding for funding for the next phase […]
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 […]
Is cycling being air-brushed from Liverpool’s future?
Is cycling being air-brushed from Liverpool’s future? Green Party councillors have slammed the council for not including dedicated cycle lanes as part of the planned revamp of Lime Street. The Greens say that when the plans were consulted on last year there were better cycling facilities proposed but the latest images of the plans released […]
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