A Green Mayor will work closely with local businesses and arts organisations to make sure Liverpool keeps its unique identity.
“Liverpool needs to promote our growing creative industries and encourage our vibrantgrassroots culture” Tom Crone
Green Party Candidate for Mayor of Liverpool
Culture & Sport:Liverpool is home to a vibrant cultural community, and is famous the world over for its contribution to music. The creative industries are a key growth area in the Liverpool economy and I will seek to promote their development, while at the same time promoting our thriving grassroots culture. We will:
- Lobby for the ability to create an Overnight Visitor Levy, allowing us to use the success of the tourist trade to boost financial support for our creative sector.
- Work to protect grassroots venues and studio spaces to ensure that the artistic community does not get pushed out by expanding development.
- Promote grassroots sport by making sure that we have training facilities spread across the city, including in our most deprived communities.
- Aim to increase women’s participation in sport by actively promoting women’s football and other team sports.
Economy & Business: We believe in promoting high-quality jobs within sustainable and successful local businesses. We will:
- Establish a Bank of Liverpool to provide profitable investment for infrastructure and housing in the region.
- Aim to make Liverpool an international leader in city-based renewable energy generation by putting renewable energy generation at the heart of a new municipally-owned energy company.
- Boost city-centre businesses by pedestrianising more of the city centre.
- Revitalize local high streets across the city through the use of business development zones.
- Improve employment opportunities for disabled people within the council, to ensure that our workforce is fully representative of the whole community. We will also look to introduce similar conditions to any external contracts that the council may award.
- Support the introduction of a local currency for Liverpool, helping to ensure that the value that is created in Liverpool stays in Liverpool.
