Thank you to everyone in Tufnell Park who voted for Rod, Jon and Devon in the local elections on May 5th. Over 40% of all votes were for a Green Party candidate in Tufnell Park and we were only 125 votes away from winning a councillor. The Green Party recorded the best ever results in […]
A surge of support in Islington has seen 3 Greens elected in Highbury ward and Devon Osborne just miss out in Tufnell Park Cllr Caroline Russell, the only opposition Councillor elected onto Islington Council over the last eight years, was re-elected with 2282 votes – one of the highest vote totals for any Councillor. Alongside […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
£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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
