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13th February 2017 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has launched a public consultation to ask whether Islington residents would support an additional five percent increase in Council Tax for 2017/18 to prevent proposed cuts to adult social care, children’s services and services for people with learning disabilities. The Greens are encouraging local residents to go to Islington.greenparty.org.uk/budget to give their […]
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21st December 2016 by Islington Green Party
21st December – Green Councillor Caroline Russell has welcomed a commitment by Islington Council to apply for funding for bike hangars across the borough. At a council meeting on Thursday 15th, Islington community nurse and Highbury Quadrant resident, Ciara Murphy, spoke of her difficulties as a cyclist who relies on her bike for work. She […]
7th December 2016 by Islington Green Party
Holloway Prison is closed and what comes next should be up to the local and wider Islington community as well as the women and their families that had their lives affected in one way or another by Holloway Prison. Several campaign groups have already organized themselves to try and make sure their voice and the […]
5th December 2016 by Islington Green Party
Green Party Councillor Caroline Russell has expressed her outrage at the Council’s failure to develop a flood prevention strategy in Islington, in spite of the considerable risk to local residents, and particularly, the likelihood of major transport disruption. Environment Agency maps show that key infrastructure in the Borough is at high risk of […]
16th November 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Greens are repeating their Citizen Science air pollution measuring, first carried out in Highbury in 2011, which revealed the pollution in Highbury was well over EU limits and in some places almost double the safe limit. Up to 9500 deaths a year in London are linked to London’s appalling air pollution – which […]
23rd September 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council have cut £26,000 in funding for St Luke’s Community Center. St Luke’s provides support to people with dementia, helping people get out of the house, providing an invaluable lifeline. At full council on 15th September, Barbara Sheridan from St Luke’s presented a 1,000 strong petition against the cuts. Islington Labour Councillor Cllr Burgess […]
THE Boundary Commission has released its provisional recommendations to redraw UK constituencies into 600 equal-sized constituencies for 2018. Under these instructions from the Conservative government, this review has removed five seats from London. As part of that restructuring, Islington North is to be lost and the seat parcelled out between three neighbouring seats covering Camden, […]
10th September 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Council’s has this week decided to revoke Fabric‘s licence. This decision was made despite the council earlier this year holding Fabric‘s practices as an example for other clubs to follow. Fabric has been an important part of London’s late night scene attracting people from across the world. In the last decade 50% of London’s music venues have […]
19th June 2016 by Islington Green Party
Islington Green Party has announced that Ernestas Jegorovas has been selected to be their candidate in the upcoming Barnsbury ward by-election. The election will take place on Thursday 14th July 2016. The selection follows an open election of members of Islington Green Party’s members in the west of the borough. The Green Party is […]
6th May 2016 by Islington Green Party
The Green Party is celebrating its best ever London election campaign after Sian Berry came third in the Mayoral vote and was elected to the London assembly alongside Islington’s Caroline Russell. Sian and Caroline replace Baroness Jenny Jones and Darren Johnson, who have both stepped down after 16 years of outstanding service at City Hall. […]