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22nd June 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party supports the petition to extend cycle hire scheme to the whole of Islington. We would particularly like to see docking stations in residential areas and on estates to make the scheme useful and accessible to a broad range of residents. We recognise that the hire scheme is not perfect, but its extension will benefit a wider […]
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18th June 2012 by Islington Green Party
The council’s intention to build new homes on existing estates is both sensible and necessary but from recent examples its approach on the ground seems in many cases arbitrary and unhelpfully rigid. Islingtonians recognise that we have a crying need for more affordable family housing and one of the biggest obstacles to this in a […]
14th June 2012 by Islington Green Party
Earlier this week, Islington Green Party received reports from residents at Ashburton Triangle that over the weekend Network Rail had destroyed vast swathes of trees and greenery adjoining the railway line there during bird nesting season. We are challenging Network Rail’s shocking actions by all means available to us, including by: -Reporting the matter to […]
9th May 2012 by Islington Green Party
Greens become third party in Mayoral and Assembly elections in Islington, Hackney and Waltham Forest and register more Green votes than anywhere else in London. • Green Party outpolls Liberal Democrats on party list in North East constituency by over 14,000 votes • Greens outpoll Liberal Democrats for first time in first past the post […]
8th May 2012 by Islington Green Party
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16th April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Green Party Leader praises Jones’ vision for a more equal, healthy and affordable London Caroline Lucas, the UK’s first Green MP and party leader will on Monday visit Islington to show her support for Jenny Jones’ Mayoral election campaign. Lucas, named Westminster’s most influential MP in her first year in the Commons, Jones, Assembly Member […]
11th April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party called today for enforcement of 20mph speed limits in Drayton Park where vehicles have been recorded traveling at twice the legal limit. One year after the 20mph limits were introduced to all residential roads in Islington, Green Party Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones joined London Assembly candidate Caroline Russell with a radar speed […]
4th April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green, Caroline Russell joined Jenny Jones this morning at London Bridge to launch the Green Party transport manifesto. The Green Party is the only party with policies that will provide the necessary investment in public transport, whilst reducing fares and cutting congestion on London’s roads. This is the message behind a comprehensive set of […]
2nd April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Green Party candidate for North East Constituency, Caroline Allen today laid out policies designed to support Islington’s shopping streets. Green mayoral candidate Jenny Jones said: “Decades of big-business government have left our high streets holding on by a thread. “As Mayor I would give communities and councils more power to keep jobs and money […]
1st April 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party have selected Claire Poyner as their candidate to run in the Holloway by-election on 3rd May. Claire has previously stood for the Greens in the 2006 and 2010 council elections for Holloway ward. Claire is fifty five years old and lives in Holloway with her partner Jon and daughter Jessica. She […]
30th March 2012 by Islington Green Party
The Labour-led Islington council is putting out increasingly confused messages about car travel in the borough – in the very week that it adopted Islington’s new Transport Strategy. At the full council meeting on the 29th of March, Councillor Janet Burgess responded to a question about asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by highlighting […]
19th March 2012 by Islington Green Party
?Greater protection for tenants, more affordable homes and renovation of empty properties are among the many ideas put forward by the Green Party this week, as housing policy became the focus of campaigning in the upcoming Mayor of London and London Assembly elections.??Recent statistics show that Islington has over 1851 empty properties, 51% of which […]
16th March 2012 by Islington Green Party
Jean Lambert, the Green MEP for London, has visited Islington to express her concern that EU limits, designed to protect resident’s health, are being routinely exceeded. Jean visited Highbury Barn and Blackstock Road, where levels 75% higher than EU limits have been recorded. She was joined by Green Party London Assembly candidates, Caroline Allen and […]
6th March 2012 by Islington Green Party
Caroline Allen, vet and Green Party candidate for Islington met Brian May, Queen guitarist and founder of the animal rights group Save Me last week, as she and Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones launched the London Green Party’s animal manifesto on Monday in Battersea Park. Jenny Jones said: “I want to make sure this great city leads […]
29th February 2012 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party responded to the inaugural journey of the Major’s new bus through Islington by slamming the fact that the money spent on this vanity project is delaying the wider fight against life threatening levels of air pollution on our streets. While TfL claim the new the bus has some good green credentials, […]
Council meeting attendees reacted with horror as Cllr Smith admitted he intended to take no action over levels of air pollution in the Borough exceeding EU safe limits by up to 75%. In fact Cllr Smith went further saying that we just had to put up with dangerously high levels of air pollution as an […]
28th February 2012 by Islington Green Party
At the national Green Party conference in Liverpool last week, Camden Green Party chair Natalie Bennett moved an addition to Green Party policy that sees the Party backing the campaign for the introduction of "proportional liability" (also known as "stricter liability") for road users. The campaign is supported by Road Peace, the Environmental Law Foundation, the London Cycling Campaign and many others. […]
12th February 2012 by Islington Green Party
Caroline Allen joins protesters at Hackney Town Hall Caroline Allen, the Green Party GLA candidate for North East London, is calling for Islington’s residents to sign up to a new campaign to help tackle the serious issue of fuel poverty. The ‘Winter Warm Up’ campaign, which last month saw Caroline and supporters protesting on […]
8th February 2012 by Islington Green Party
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6th February 2012 by Islington Green Party
Communities Councils and Carbon – What we can do if Governments Won’t. A public meeting organised by Islington Green Party – all welcome! Please feel free to a spread the word to anyone you think might be interested. Monday 13th February at 8.15pm in the basement room at the Regent Pub, 201Liverpool Rd, N11LX […]
31st January 2012 by Islington Green Party
A new school, 576 bobbies or 105 hybrid buses: Boris’ opposition to Robin Hood tax is costing Islington dearly, says Green candidate Caroline Allen Boris Johnson’s opposition to a ‘Robin Hood Tax’ is depriving local people in Islington of money that could pay for hundreds of new police officers, revitalise local transport, build new […]
20th January 2012 by Islington Green Party
Local residents wishing to "play a role in influencing decisions and services in their areas" are invited by the Council to do so through attendance at regular Ward Partnership meetings with elected councillors in each of Islington’s sixteen wards. While seven Ward Partnerships are meeting regularly, one appears never to have met, nine wards have no future […]
17th January 2012 by Islington Green Party
Green Party Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, joined leafleters at Highbury and Islington tube station on Tuesday and pledged that a Green City Hall would support small businesses by ensuring that any part of the Greater London Authority group—including Transport for London—would only deal with banks that could demonstrate they were lending to London’s small businesses. […]
13th January 2012 by Islington Green Party
Reacting to figures released this week that show child poverty stands at 39% in Hackney, 43% in Islington and 31% in Waltham Forest, Caroline Allen, Green Party London Assembly candidate for the North East constituency, which incorporates the boroughs, said: " I believe it is now harder to get out of poverty than it has […]