News
26 April 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Public Consultation Questionnaires are available at http://liverpool.gov.uk/council/consultation/consultation-on-a-citywide-selective-licensing-scheme/ and close 16th June 2014. Helping with the consultation will help Liverpool city council regulate private landlords.
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9 March 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Wednesday’s Council budget meeting gave the best evidence yet that the Green Party is right to propose cutting the number of councillors. Not one Labour councillor took part in the budget debate. The Mayor did it all. Why would we need 74 Labour councillors all saying “yes” to the Mayor? Whether he’s cutting services, deleting […]
7 March 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
AMENDMENT 1 Recognising the likelihood of increasing unmet demand from people suffering hardship, particularly from the “bedroom tax” and from the reduction in council tax support, the Citizens’ Support Scheme should be increased by £340k for 2015/16 and 2016/17. That provision should be funded by a reduction, from 2015/16, in the budget for the basic […]
14 February 2014 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party has welcomed the success of a petition launched by Green MP Caroline Lucas asking Parliament to review the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act. It has now reached the 100,000 signatures that will trigger a parliamentary debate on our failing drugs law. Cllr John Coyne said “There is no doubt that the ‘war […]
28 October 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party is calling on all households to recycle more and to make the best of the new situation where the council is imposing a service reduction, moving from weekly to fortnightly collection of general waste for more than half of the houses in the city. Green councillors, candidates and activists want to help […]
24 September 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool’s Green Councillors today joined cyclists, bus and taxi operators to react to the shock announcement that Liverpool’s Mayor wants to scrap bus lanes. The Mayor is said to want a 9 month switch-off of enforcement cameras starting next month. But the Green Party is ready to use the “call-in” procedure so that the idea […]
17 September 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
We recognise the case for some kind of Combined Authority (CA) for Liverpool City Region, but we have disagreements with the current prospectus for such an authority. We recognise that the effects of the government’s austerity programme have hit our subregion particularly hard, combining with pre-existing problems of deprivation and relatively high levels of unemployment. […]
Campaigns News
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 […]
13 February 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Click here to sign the petition. The Coalition of Resistance, to which the Green Party is affiliated, has launched this petition along with the list of initial signatories. It will be handed in to Downing Street in June 2013 during the People’s Assembly Against Austerity. Please ask everyone to sign. Click here to download a printable version for […]
8 February 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
North West Green Party Euro Candidate Peter Cranie has expressed his disappointment with the 18 MPs in the North West Region who voted against the principle of equal marriage this week.“The fact that one quarter of our MPs voted against a basic equality being extended to all people, supported by leaders of every political party […]
Elections News
19 January 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool’s Labour Party appears to have made a resolution to focus on negative attacks on the Green Party in 2013. The “Come Clean” jibe is misplaced. The Green Party has been saying consistently that the council should be prepared to make a rise in council tax in order to protect vulnerable people from some of […]
8 January 2013 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
There follows an email From T Craven on the subject of council finances. Then a response from John Coyne, a Liverpool councillor. “JOE Anderson did not have a referendum to elect a mayor for Liverpool, he now has an opportunity to have a referendum on whether the electorate would agree to allow him to raise […]
9 October 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Natalie Bennett speaks to Channel 4 on becoming the new leader of the Green Party of England and Wales “It’s time we stopped treating the planet like a mine and dumping ground, while discarding the poorest like rubbish. “The Green Party has a clear vision that every political issue is not just economic, social or […]
30 September 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Cllr John Coyne reports on Liverpool’s International Day of Languages, 29th September 2012 Yesterday I saw a celebration from Liverpool Supplementary Schools – schools set up by Liverpool’s old and new migrant communities. These schools already receive some support from the city council. The Lord Mayor Cllr Sharon Sullivan opened the event with, I thought, characteristic charm […]
16 September 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
“Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future: What Can WE do?” on 21st September 2012 Peace Conference at Royal Liver Building Rights and Humanity are hosting a conference event at the Royal Liver Building. Please see the attached invitation for a list of speakers. Rights and Humanity UN Internat Day of Peace Conf Invite 12 F10 […]
12 September 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Liverpool Green Party welcome the release of the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Founding Liverpool Green Party member Lawrence Brown, and local Green councillors Sarah Jennings and John Coyne, have welcomed the release of the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel. In a statement on behalf of Liverpool Green Party they said: “The people […]
12 August 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
Busking Fiasco Hits the Wrong Note for Liverpool Under New Rules, Beatles Might Never Have Made It The introduction of new and restrictive busking rules in Liverpool City Centre should be scrapped immediately according the Green Party in Liverpool. Peter Cranie, the Liverpool based odds-on favourite to become the new leader of the national Green […]
13 July 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
News release from Green Party Of England And Wales Thu 12th July 2012For more information: http://www.greenparty.org.uk/ Greens have called for urgent action to cure the NHS of cancerous PFI payments and have written to the Secretary of State for Health calling for action to ensure that health care provision is maintained rather than allowing hospitals to […]
4 July 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
For my sins, I am one of the three opposition party members on the new mayoral select committee which met for the first time today (4 July) – Mayoral Select Committee. This is a committee which doesn’t yet know what it’s supposed to be doing. Most of the time we spent going round in circles and […]
31 May 2012 / 22 September 2020 by pressofficer
UPDATE October 2012 – Council’s Consultation not Fit for Purpose. We are struggling to understand what has gone so very wrong with the council’s intentions to involve people in shaping the future of Sefton Park and the perimeter roads. In the final week of September 2012 about 950 homes on the edge of the Park […]