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26th November 2015 by
Greens have shared their dismay following the Labour Council’s plans to push ahead with its 33% increase in the amount of council tax paid by the city’s poorest households, amid revelations on Monday that council officers are now asking some low income families to move out of Brighton and Hove. This approach to supporting […]
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23rd November 2015 by
Green councillors are calling on Brighton and Hove City Council to adopt more creative and cost-effective approaches to increasing cycling in the city, in order to improve health, reduce traffic and cut deadly vehicle emissions. This follows a report from Public Health England which estimated that exhaust emissions result in 175 premature deaths in […]
20th November 2015 by
Greens have expressed outrage at devastating welfare reforms introduced by national government, as the Council announces plans to ask its poorest residents to move out of Brighton & Hove or face homelessness. In a report to the Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equality Committee on Monday [1], which looks at the likely impact of planned welfare […]
Green Councillors condemned proposals at yesterday’s Children, Young People and Skills Committee to outsource youth work services amid a 25% reduction to next year’s youth work budget, saying the proposals would inevitably lead to poorer outcomes for the city’s young people. The proposals in the 2015 Youth Work Review were co-produced by young people, […]
19th November 2015 by
Councillor Dick Page joined fellow Green councillors and Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas this week in a high-profile bid to Downing Street, challenging massive cuts to local government funding proposed by the Conservatives. Greens delivered a letter addressed to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to plug the estimated £9.5m funding gap faced by […]
18th November 2015 by
Green Councillors today called on unregistered voters across the city to register to vote by the end of this week, in order to avoid losing fair representation in Parliament. The move came as part of the last ditch cross-party effort to register everyone who can vote, before Parliamentary boundaries are redrawn by the Conservative […]
17th November 2015 by
Green Councillors on the Children, Young People and Skills Committee joined forces with over 600 parents from Brighton Children’s Centres Campaign yesterday to condemn massive cuts to children’s centres in the city. Despite Labour’s initial proposals being revised to keep certain centres open a few hours a week as “delivery points”, there are still […]
13th November 2015 by
Conservative and Labour groups in Brighton and Hove City Council voted today to give formal council support to building a second runway at Gatwick airport. The vote comes after Conservative-led councils in Kent and West Sussex both registered their objection to the airport expansion. Green councillors provided the only opposition to the move, saying […]
11th November 2015 by
Keith Taylor, Green Member of European Parliament for the South East, is to speak at a public meeting on Friday 13th November about why the Greens are campaigning to remain in the EU. The meeting, organised by the Dialogue Society in Brighton [1], comes in the same week that David Cameron outlined his negotiation […]
10th November 2015 by
Green Councillors are calling on service users and carers to respond to an upcoming consultation on the closure of the Tower House Day Centre service. This follows the special meeting of the Policy and Resources committee last week, where Greens won a measure of reprieve for the centre, by requiring the Council to provide […]