Letters
6th June 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Following my letter, last month, Islington Council still hasn’t managed to distribute all of its Hardship Fund, so has extended the application deadline again, till the end of June this time. This entirely worthwhile initiative, to help low-income households who need support with paying their rent, still has grants available, but, so far, only 50% […]
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29th May 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
The Sobell Centre is a wonderful resource for our borough, which, over the years, the community has had to fight hard to keep open. Now we may have to fight, again, to make sure the facilities offered there are actually what we want. The ice-rink has been closed there since the flood from Thames Water’s […]
8th May 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
Cllr Diarmaid Ward rightly recognises how people are suffering during the current cost-of-living crisis, so I welcome that he has extended the deadline to the end of May for low income, working households to apply for £250 one-off grants, from the Council’s Hardship Fund (‘Help available at this time of crisis’). The scheme’s direct payments […]
2nd May 2023 / 15th November 2023 by Islington Green Party
No-one in the NHS wants to go on strike and nurses and doctors are well aware of the impact on patients of ongoing strike action. The facts are that wages for nurses have fallen by 13%, in real terms, since 2009, compared with a 2.5% drop for the average UK worker, while junior doctors’ incomes […]
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10th May 2022 by Islington Green Party
13th March 2022 by Islington Green Party
I am here to argue against the proposal to move Tufnell Park ward in Islington (until recently named St George’s ward) from the Islington North constituency into the proposed new Kentish Town and Bloomsbury constituency. I have been a resident of Tufnell Park ward for 18 years, previously living in Camden Town. I have two […]
15th February 2022 by Islington Green Party
By the time you read this post, the seven councils who make up the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) may have signed the contract to build a huge, over-sized new incinerator in Edmonton, committing our own council to burning our unrecycled waste there until at least 2060 and in clear contravention of Islington’s stated goal […]
12th February 2022 by Islington Green Party
If fuel bills rise by 50% or more this April, as widely predicted when the government energy price cap is updated, then thousands more Islington homes could be driven into fuel poverty, forcing lower income households into a dreadful but all-too-common choice between heating and eating. For decades, now, governments of all colours have relied […]
30th September 2021 by Islington Green Party
£249 million pensions deficit buried in agenda appendix Full Council last week received a report that Islington is one of only four councils in the country to be challenged about its pension fund deficit by the Government Actuary Dept. This is a result of them flagging Islington’s situation as ‘amber’ – the 4th worst out of the 87 pension funds they investigated. Green Cllr Caroline Russell said: “This worrying situation was buried […]
28th September 2021 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council signs up to Transport for All’s EQUAL PAVEMENTS Pledge At Full Council last Thursday, Islington passed a motion backing Transport for All’s call for councils and transport authorities to sign an Equal Pavements Pledge. Transport for All is a disabled and older persons’ organisation which champions accessible transport in London and the […]
26th August 2021 by Islington Green Party
Despite assurances from the Prime Minister that nobody would lose their home as a result of coronavirus, the Tories are once again showing whose side they are on where private renters are concerned: the landlords. The always limited measures to protect private renters introduced last year are now being quietly whittled away, and a flood […]
20th July 2021 by Islington Green Party
Early in June the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declared a “retrofit revolution”, to make the capital’s buildings more energy efficient. London’s homes and workplaces are responsible for three quarters of our carbon emissions and virtually all will need some level of retrofitting if we are to reach the mayor’s net zero target by 2030. […]
16th July 2021 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council has announced its plans to push through the construction of a new cricket pavilion at Wray Crescent Park in Tollington with no constulation, as part of a multi-million pound investment in local parks and green spaces. Islington has the smallest amount of green space per person of anywhere in the United Kingdom […]
13th July 2021 by Islington Green Party
Congratulations to Labour’s Mick Gilgunn for his victory in the July 1 Tollington ward by-election, but thanks also to the many residents whose votes took the Green Party to a strong second place behind him. Jonathan Ward, our candidate, only had a few weeks to win hearts and minds after Richard Watts’s sudden announcement that […]
16th June 2021 by Islington Green Party
Local Councillor Richard Watts has resigned from Islington Council. That means Tollington will be electing a new Councillor on 1st July. Tollington resident Jonathan Ward is standing for the Green Party. Jonathan is an expert sustainability engineer. He is on the Steering Group of the Neighbourhood Planning Forum and is a long-standing governor of St. […]
29th April 2021 by Islington Green Party
On May 6th the residents of Mildmay will have the chance to vote in a by-election triggered by the resignation of a Labour Councillor, and we are delighted that local resident and campaigner Zoe Alzamora is standing as a Green candidate. Zoe recently worked with her community to protect green space at Park View estate, […]
26th April 2021 by Islington Green Party
The London Assembly Elections are only a few weeks away, and with London having declared a climate emergency now more than ever your vote for a Green future matters. Siân Berry is currently in 3rd place for the race for Mayor, and in the London Assembly the race is on to get more Green Assembly members […]
21st April 2021 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party is thrilled to announce that Katie Dawson, who served as councillor between 2006-2010, is standing again in the May 6th by-election for Highbury West. In her four year term, she made a huge difference in Islington including: Introducing 20 mph speed limits on residential streets. Securing Islington’s first secure estate cycle shed (on […]
19th April 2021 by Islington Green Party
On May 6th London goes to the polls for the delayed 2020 London Assembly Election, and we are incredibly proud that Siân Berry and Caroline Russell are standing again to help turn London Green. In the last five years, Caroline and Sian have achieved real change in the London Assembly, including: Winning a big change […]
12th March 2021 by Islington Green Party
The NOcado campaign began at the start of 2020, shortly after our shocked community in Tufnell Park/Upper Holloway found out that Ocado had been given permission to open a 24/7 depot in a small vacant light industrial estate right next to a primary school and nursery. In fact, permission had been given months earlier, but […]
8th February 2021 by Islington Green Party
The campaign to save the trees at Dixon Clark Court should be viewed with great sadness. We should thank the determined and intrepid protestors on the site, as well as many others in the Borough, for focussing our attention on the vital need to retain all our sizeable trees for their contribution to our health […]
1st February 2021 by Islington Green Party
Homes are a major source of CO2 emissions. To achieve the government and the council’s zero-carbon targets, as well as reduce fuel poverty, we need to carry out ‘deep retrofit’ energy improvements to tens of thousands of existing homes in Islington – comprehensive ‘whole house’ schemes, going far beyond a double-glazed window here and a […]
28th January 2021 by Islington Green Party
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, it makes absolute sense to cut air pollution and make our streets safer and more pleasant for walking and cycling by reducing the number of local car journeys. Barely a quarter of Islington households own a car, so the new Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, which came into being in […]
25th January 2021 by Islington Green Party
A Green-led initiative has seen Islington council becoming the first London borough to commit to a pilot for universal basic income (UBI). UBI is a non-means tested payment, providing locals economic security which comes at a time when it’s needed the most. It is a reliable base that people- young and old, can support themselves […]