21st September 2015 by
OPINION PIECE by Cllr Ollie Sykes, Green Party spokesperson on finance The city council’s projected £8.5m overspend, largely due to increasing demand in Adult’s and Children’s social care, highlights the impossible balancing act that faces ours and other councils as the fifth successive year of government cuts bites ever deeper and into the bone […]
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17th September 2015 by
Brighton & Hove City Council has won the Best Cycle Network Infrastructure Award for the Lewes Road sustainable transport scheme. The announcement was made at the Cycle Planning Awards at Walthamstow Assembly Hall on Monday evening. More than 100 entries were submitted in eight categories and were judged by a panel of respected figures […]
Campaigners today formed a ‘Queue to save Brunswick Town Post Office’ as part of a lunch-time protest at the threatened branch. The action aimed to demonstrate the threatened branch’s popularity and cause it to sell out of 2nd class stamps The ‘queue’, which extended along Western Road, was joined by local ward councillors, Ollie […]
13th September 2015 by
On Sunday September 13th, as hundreds of delegates meet in Brighton at this year’s TUC Congress, a ‘Kill the bill!’ rally was held to oppose the government’s Trade Union Bill. Characterised as the latest anti-union government’s legislation, if passed, the new laws would make official strikes much more difficult and give more advantages to employers while […]
8th September 2015 by
The Green Group of Brighton & Hove councillors has called for an Extraordinary Full Council meeting to discuss the city’s response to the unfolding Syrian refugee crisis. Following a Green Group meeting last night, convenor Cllr Phelim Mac Cafferty today wrote to the Acting Chief Executive of the council, Geoff Raw requesting the meeting. He […]
7th September 2015 by
A Green Councillor has been successful in brokering a deal to save an art gallery, and create hope for its neighbours, following recent news that Madeira Terraces have become structurally unstable. Cllr Tom Druitt, Green spokesperson for Economic Development & Culture, made several visits to the site to see what could be done and […]
3rd September 2015 by
Green councillors have called Labour’s proposals to reduce help for low income households through the Council Tax Reduction (CTR) scheme ‘uncaring and short-sighted’. The CTR scheme subsidises the amount that low income working age households pay towards their Council Tax. Brighton & Hove’s Labour administration is proposing to increase the minimum contribution those affected […]
Green councillors are delighted that progress is being made on restoring Brighton’s historic Kings Road arches, with the planned rebuilding of Shelter Hall. The £9million funding from the government’s Highways Maintenance Challenge Fund was won under the previous Green administration with cross-party support. Green Group convenor, Cllr. Phelim Mac Cafferty said: “We are delighted […]
2nd September 2015 by
As part of a campaign against the closure of Brunswick Town’s much-loved Crown Post Office at 22 Western Road, two local Green councillors are organising a ‘World Cafe’ public discussion to draw together ideas on how to save it. Concerned residents and customers are invited, as are local MPs Peter Kyle and Caroline Lucas […]
4th August 2015 by
The Green Group of councillors have expressed concern that Labour is dragging its heels on the Valley Gardens regeneration scheme in calling for further traffic modelling surveys to be carried out. The scheme to transform the green spaces from St Peters Church to the seafront, into a single city centre park with improved transport […]