1st February 2017 by
The Council’s Labour administration faced hard hitting questions about their budget proposals as young people gathered last weekend to protest against planned cuts to youth services. The protest followed a meeting of Brighton and Hove City Council last week, where young people presented a petition of more than 2,000 signatures opposing the 80% cuts to […]
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30th January 2017 by
Friends, It is brilliant to see so many people here this evening. We stand shoulder to shoulder with protesters at airports at Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Dallas, New York’s JFK, Raleigh, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta. Over a million people in Britain – and 5.4% of Brighton and Hove’s population, have now signed a petition […]
27th January 2017 by
Questions were raised at a meeting of full Council on Thursday as to why the Labour Council leadership seek to introduce Council tax rises they had previously opposed during the Green administration. Responding to a question from Councillor Dick Page, Brighton & Hove Labour’s finance lead Cllr Les Hamilton could not explain why plans to […]
A Green Group motion calling for all empty council buildings to be made available for use as homeless shelters was unanimously supported at a meeting of Brighton and Hove full Council yesterday. [1] The proposals will give voluntary and community sector groups that are ‘able and willing’ access to currently vacant Council buildings and the […]
The Green Group of Councillors have secured a win in the Council’s Housing Committee that may avoid the sale and loss of Brighton’s dwindling social housing stock. In an amendment to current Housing Revenue budget proposals last week, the Greens gained a firm commitment that the Council will explore ways to raise funds without selling […]
Keith Taylor, MEP for South East England, is joining a legal challenge in Dublin to establish whether Brexit can be reversed. Keith Taylor is among the politicians named today as plaintiffs in the ‘Dublin Case’ which seeks legal clarity on revocability of Article 50. Keith will join Jonathan Bartley, Co-leader of the Green Party of […]
Blog piece by James, local Green Party Member. Too busy during her tenure as Home Secretary telling people ‘in the UK illegally’, must ‘go home or face arrest’, Theresa May appeared to miss the apocalyptic spike in homelessness brought about by David Cameron’s commitment to austerity. A 52 percent spike since 2010 to be exact. […]
24th January 2017 by
In a letter to the Committee for Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities (23rd January), Green Councillor Amanda Knight has outlined how proposed cuts to the youth service are ‘incompatible’ with the Council’s own commitments to equality, diversity and anti-discrimination for Brighton and Hove residents. The letter highlights the findings of the Council’s own Equality Impact Assessment […]
20th January 2017 by
Green Councillors have rejected the Council’s recommendation to push ahead with planned sales of sites on the Downland Estate. Sites at Plumpton Hill and Poynings came under scrutiny back in December, when the Green Group successfully halted plans to sell the land and requested a report into the protection of the site. However at a […]
16th January 2017 by
Green Councillors have condemned the ‘weak response’ from local health chiefs and the Council’s Labour administration over plans to reorganise and cut local NHS services. Last Wednesday 11th January NHS England wrote to the Council regarding the progress of the controversial ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plan’ (STP) for local health services. [1] Greens have expressed alarm […]