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4th March 2018 by Islington Green Party
£104 per year to use new bike stores Islington is charging residents more to park a bike in its onstreet cycle stores than many drivers pay for a parking permit, even though half a car space can house six bikes. Councillor Caroline Russell says “This price is too high, especially for people on low […]
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3rd March 2018 by Islington Green Party
Local Green Councillor Caroline Russell has persuaded the council to send a surveyor to Park View estate, after residents demonstrated against their continued inaction. Leaks from walkways and around rain-water pipes are making bedrooms in some flats uninhabitable. The residents had presented a petition to the council in December, calling for it to fix the […]
2nd March 2018 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party welcomes Transport for London’s proposed investment in the open space on Grosvenor Avenue beside Canonbury Station. In recent years the paving and other landscape features on this attractive corner have deteriorated. With increased passenger numbers on the Overground line there is an opportunity for the space to better serve local people and […]
24th February 2018 by Islington Green Party
Dear Editor I was interested in the story of Anthony Wilkinson and his campaign against plastic straws in Islington, (Gazette Feb 15th) tweeting pubs and restaurants one by one. Suddenly everybody is alarmed about the scale of plastic pollution, especially after David Attenborough’s TV programme showing what it does to wildlife and the oceans. Single […]
4th February 2018 by Islington Green Party
The Holloway Road bridge-works are finally coming to an end, so what will happen next? We’ve been promised the Highbury Corner roundabout will be removed, to create a better ‘gateway’ to the area and improve conditions for bus-users, pedestrians and cyclists, but results of the previous consultation have been expected for more than a year. […]
3rd February 2018 by Islington Green Party
We have watched the failure of Carillion, the plundering of pension funds to pay fat cat bonuses and the tightening squeeze on living standards for the lower paid. Conservative supporters celebrated the sale of Council houses to sitting tenants (and many now let them privately as the buyers take their profit): we all now wonder […]
2nd February 2018 by Islington Green Party
Council Tax is an expense the borough’s lowest income households simply can’t afford. Islington does discount some of its tax rates but still too many of our poorest families are falling into arrears. Issuing court summons to people with no money is intimidating, an ineffective way of raising revenue and a waste of council resources. […]
11th December 2017 by Islington Green Party
Live updates on the closure from TfL can be read on their website This a guest post from Green Party Cllr Caroline Russell TfL are removing the 150-year-old bridge on Holloway Road that crosses the train line underneath. It’s a complicated piece of engineering that TfL will be working round the clock on. The work […]
21st October 2017 by Islington Green Party
It is testament to the hard work of local campaigners that Islington Council’s plans for Barnard Park have been scuppered. Questions must be asked as to why the council was so eager to downsize the community pitch. At full council Cllr Claudia Webbe claimed the council plans for Barnard Park did not result in a […]
12th October 2017 by Islington Green Party
A letter from our Green Party Cllr Caroline Russell Cllr Janet Burgess declared in the Gazette in May 2014 that “There are no plans at all to close the Sotheby Mews Day Centre.” Sotheby Mews was apparently safe. The council decision in February this year, to move services to Highbury Roundhouse’s new building means that service users at Sotheby Mewshave real concerns about losing their dedicated space for […]