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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Campaigners will be leafletting homes around Sefton Park today to make people aware of the Council’s plans to sell green field conservation land next to Sefton Park. The land, known as Sefton Park Meadows falls within the Sefton Conservation Area, and was designated as Green Space in the Council’s Planning guidelines. It is next to […]
