Author: tomhathway

South Gloucestershire Council tonight joined the growing number of councils across the UK and beyond in declaring a “Climate Emergency”.   The movement that was kicked off by Green councillors in Bristol last year, commits the council to significantly update its carbon reduction targets. These will now be in line with the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on […]

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South Gloucestershire Council have announced plans for significant changes to traffic movements on the A4174. The plans include:  removing the westbound bus lane through the junction to the M32 traffic signals  removing the right turn onto the B4058 from westbound of the A4174 ring road  removing the ability to go straight on or right for the B4058 northbound […]

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Following on from a fantastic showing at the Local Elections on 2nd May, the Green Party picked up over 11,000 votes across South Glos in the European Elections, pushing the Tories and Labour into 4th and 5th place locally. Down the road in Bristol, the Greens came first picking up over 35% of the vote. […]

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The party took 20% in Hanham and 2% of the total votes cast in South Glos, despite contesting only 4 areas. Similar positive results were seen across the country, with Green councillors breaking through in 50 new councils and a record gain of 194 councillors. Commenting on the success, local party co-chair Jenny Vernon said, […]

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With the local elections approaching on 2nd May, South Gloucestershire Green Party is standing more candidates than ever before. They will each be standing with bold plans for their wards and have agreed a set of 5 key pledges to bring to Council for residents in South Glos. 1)    Represent Freely To never “whip” our councillors […]

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South Glos has the lowest per pupil funding in the country. Let that sink in a moment. On the 19th March I posed a question on BBC Radio Bristol asking the South Gloucestershire Council Leader Toby Savage why schools in our area are the most underfunded in England, and why Bristol pupils are worth more […]

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South Gloucestershire Green Party today announced it’s first three local election 2019 candidates. Standing for Hanham in the Local Elections next May, Joe Evans, Jenny Vernon and Jack Cox agreed that they are fed up of the continuing failure of the main three parties to tackle the issues facing the area.  Joe said, “I took […]

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In 2013 more than 300,000 people supported a petition opposing the cull on Badgers, along with this an independent expert panel was appointed by DEFRA, that panel deemed the cull as ineffective and inhumane along with saying that the culls had no significant improvement on eradicating TB. In November this year a review had stated that the badger […]

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South Gloucestershire Green Party have slammed the Conservative Cabinet for missing an opportunity to take the reins on climate change, following their adoption of a revised Climate Change Strategy for the next 5 years. The Cabinet met and voted through the Climate Change Strategy 2018-2023 on the day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) […]

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There are 220,000 badgers (Meles meles) in the UK, each one a sentient, intelligent and curious individual with a personality and a consciousness flourishing over 6 – 8 years of life in the wild. As a species they play a crucial role in the functioning of our ecosystems and are unanimously adored, recognised as a […]

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