Local Green Party in North Hertfordshire and Stevenage
Fairer Communities
30 August 2021 / 1 June 2022 by
Re-posted From Herts Welcomes Refugees Herts Welcomes Refugees Here’s how you can help If you would like to help, please consider taking some of the following actions: 1. Write to your local councillor and your council leads to ask and encourage them to accept Afghan refugees in your area under one of the government's […]
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Biodiversity Climate Emergency Local Campaigns
6 August 2021 / 12 October 2024 by daveeldervass
North Herts & Stevenage Green Party are proud to present the second round of free expert talks on climate change and solutions! All Recordings Now Available! Sustainable Lifestyle: Click Here Food & Farming : Towards a Healthy Future: Click Here Scroll down for earlier recordings from the “Truth for a Change” series, Autumn 2019 – Biodiversity, Lifestyle, Climate […]
National Campaigns
5 August 2021 / 9 August 2021 by
Sign the petition to strengthen the Environment Bill The current Environment Bill does not hold the government accountable and it does not make it a crime to destroy the environment and natural resources. The Green Party is demanding updates to the Environment Bill. These would, amongst other things, commit the UK government to categorise ecocide […]
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Local Campaigns
24 July 2021 / 18 June 2022 by daveeldervass
Let’s S. C. R. A. P. Fly Tipping Article submitted by new member, Kruna Vukmirovic Around two-thirds of fly tips are household waste. Items and bags left beside street bins, recycling banks, on the floor of communal bin areas, or outside closed Household Waste Recycling Centres and charity shops constitute fly tipping. All households and […]
22 July 2021 / 23 July 2021 by
Article submitted by new member Kruna Vukmirovic The Government plans to introduce a data sharing scheme called General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR). The Green Party are opposed to the GPDPR and we are concerned about the privacy of patients and that the collected data would be used by private firms with […]
21 June 2021 / 21 June 2021 by
The Hertfordshire Wildlife Trust are campaigning to buy a lease on Astonbury Woods on the outskirts of Stevenage to save it from future development and safeguard its wildlife. The North Herts and Stevenage Green Party are supporting their campaign and have made a donation towards it. The link to the Hertfordshire Wildlife Trust campaign can be […]
17 June 2021 / 1 June 2022 by
Recommendations for improving North Herts Air Quality To mark Clean Air Day, 17th June 2021, Deolinda Eltringham wrote to NHDC to propose a number of recommendations for improving air quality in North Herts. Her letter includes eight years of air monitoring data from Stevenage Road in Hitchin. You can read her letter in full here
Elections
27 April 2021 / 24 March 2024 by daveeldervass
“Having a Green in the room provides a voice for the environment, the climate and social justice, areas we believe other parties are failing to match their rhetoric with meaningful action” The Green Party is expecting to make significant gains across the country in the local elections next month, as it stands a record number […]
21 April 2021 / 24 March 2024 by daveeldervass
Anni Sander and Tim Lee, Herts County Council candidate councillors state that when elected the Green Party will: Buses are a vital component of a well connected integrated transport system, which has a significant impact on social justice, reducing environmental impact and the well-being of the UK population. Why we need to do this For […]
Development Comments
16 March 2021 / 24 March 2024 by
Campaign against the concrete batching plant at Rush Green Farm:A campaign led by Nicky Clark In 2018 an application to develop a concrete batching plant at Rush Green Farm in Langley, on the B656 between Hitchin and Codicote was approved. I have been opposed to this development since the beginning along with a huge number […]