Mid Suffolk Green councillors call on local Tories to join them in disowning Government’s attack on nature. Mid Suffolk Green Party councillors have today written to all local Conservative councillors, calling on them to disown the Government’s ‘attack on nature’. In an open letter, the Greens have described plans to downgrade environmental protections as a […]
Some Taxis have cancelled their contracts to take pupils to school. Green Party councillor responds Green Party Cllr Caroline Topping Suffolk GLI Spokesperson for Education and Child Protection, said: “It is crucial that this Council acts with the greatest level of urgency. The first few weeks in the new school year are highly important in […]
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TV’s ‘Mock The Week’ regular ANGELA BARNES headlines ‘Turning The Air Green’, a night of high class stand up comedy and satire at the Theatre Royal, Bury St. Edmunds on Sunday 18th June 2023. Barnes will perform her brand new show ‘Hot Mess’ direct from a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe, in a special […]
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Senior members of the Green Party call for much more action on single-use plastics during a recent visit to Stowmarket. Green Party peer, Baroness Jenny Jones called for more urgent Government action to reduce and eliminate single-use plastics, still widely used for packaging and other purposes. Together with Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay she visited […]
Please see quotes from the Suffolk Green, Lib Dem & Independent (GLI) Group regarding the recent approval of the Sizewell C development: Cllr Andrew Stringer GLI Leader “We believe this is the wrong decision for Suffolk. It locks in ever more expensive ways to generate electricity that we believe will be economically unviable before it […]
On 2nd December, Suffolk County Council passed opposition Green, Lib Dem, Independent (GLI) group motion recognising changes to the Highway Code, giving clarity that 20mph limits should not be exceeded. The motion was passed unanimously and included the following stipulation: “This Council will write to the PCC and ask for confirmation that the Suffolk Constabulary […]
Increased commitment to Suffolk rivers as Green, LibDem & Independent Group motion passes
All Suffolk rivers have been reported to have failed government standards. Suffolk GLI believes that our rivers in Suffolk should promote safe human activity, biodiversity, and important wildlife. Instead, Suffolk rivers are polluted with dangerous amounts of chemicals, destroying ecosystems with a rise in sewage discharge, storm overflow, as well as agricultural runoff. […]
As concern and opposition grow to National Grid proposals for huge new electricity pylons and cables from Norwich to Tilbury, the Green Party has proposed a radically different approach for getting power from wind turbines to the main areas of consumer demand. Some opponents to more and bigger pylons stretching across East Anglia have already […]
Scheme is ‘green’ in more ways than one Green & Liberal Democrat proposal for Mid Suffolk to buy two electric buses to provide scheduled services to rural villages lacking provision has been included in the Mid Suffolk DC Budget for 2022/23 While the buses are being sourced, practical details will be worked out, probably with […]
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On 17th February the Green Party won the Thurston Ward District by-election by a massive margin. Our candidate, Austin Davies, won the by-election with 845 votes, more than double the Conservatives’ 399 votes, with Labour and the LibDems trailing far behind. The by-election was triggered by our previous councillor, Wendy Turner, moving away from the […]
