“Liverpool needs energy efficient, affordable homes, built on brownfield sites and not to sell off parks to developers.” Tom Crone
Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Liverpool
Environment: Our health, wellbeing and success owe a great deal to the environment that surrounds us. Fortunately Liverpool is blessed with a wealth of parks and green spaces, however in recent years these have started to come under threat.
We also need to drastically improve our performance when it comes to waste and recycling. Liverpool is in the bottom third of local authorities when it comes to recycling and each year the council wastes millions of pounds on landfill fees to dump waste that could have been put to better uses. We will:
- Guarantee that Walton Hall Park will not be sold to make way for a football stadium, for houses, or for any other type of development.
- Move to safeguard our other parks and green spaces from the threat of development.
- Launch a 5-year plan to improve the range of recycling available to households and businesses.
- Work with the Environment Agency and other authorities to develop a long-term plan to manage the surface water flood risks associated with global warming.