12th June 2024 / 9th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
The Green Party has today promised real change in a manifesto designed to “invest to mend broken Britain.” The Green Party say they are the only party being honest with voters by setting out how public services can be protected through a fairer, greener tax system. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has warned the […]
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3rd June 2024 / 9th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Following a vote by councillors in the Exeter HATOC committee to end the Active Streets Trial in Heavitree ahead of the original plan for it to run until February 2025, Green councillors in the ward have challenged both the Labour-led Exeter City Council and the Conservative-led Devon County Council to explain what they plan to […]
28th May 2024 / 9th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
The Progressive Group of Councillors on Exeter City Council will this week seek to reduce the financial risks racked up by the Labour-led Council and demand long promised measures to oversee council companies are properly put in place. The call comes as yet another Council connected Company, Exeter Science Park Ltd, runs into trouble. At […]
21st May 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Green Councillors in Exeter have called for a new Police Enquiry Officer to be based in the city centre as records show 316 crimes in March alone this year. The three Green councillors in St David’s ward have written to the re-elected Police and Crime Commissioner, Alison Hernandez, calling for the Officer to be located […]
16th May 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Responding to reports that Devon County Council may seek to abandon the Heavitree and Whipton Active Streets Trial, Heavitree’s two Green Party councillors, Catherine Rees and Carol Bennett, have issued the following statement: “The last set of evidence provided to HATOC showed that the Active Streets Trial had broadly achieved its principal aims of making […]
10th May 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
The Green Party and Liberal Democrats are to continue their alliance on Exeter City Council following local elections which saw each Party gain a councillor – the Green Party in Newtown & St Leonard’s and the Liberal Democrats in St James & Duryard [1]. The Greens now have seven councillors and the Liberal Democrats four […]
15th April 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Exeter Green Party have launched their local election campaign, pledging to give communities in Exeter a better say in helping shape a greener, fairer city and to fight cuts to vital services that support people in greatest need. The Party is also proposing some creative ideas such as developing a modern market in the city […]
26th March 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Green Party councillors in St David’s ward in Exeter have described the planned conversion of council flats into ‘New York style luxury flats’ [1] as a ‘disgrace.’ Concord House on South Street had 28 flats that were let as social housing, but tenants were moved out last year due to concerns over the safety of […]
18th February 2024 / 20th July 2025 by exetergreenparty
Green Party councillor Tess Read is to put forward a motion calling on Exeter City Council to back moves to end ‘box shifting’ – a loophole used by businesses to avoid paying business rates [1]. The practice involves landlords exploiting business rate relief they receive from having an empty commercial space. Instead of finding new […]
7th January 2023 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
"Residents say that the crossings on Paris and Cheeke St are dangerous. ”