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8th December 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Exeter St David’s Green Party councillor, Diana Moore, is urging residents to back a whole neighbourhood approach to proposed temporary social distancing measures for Queen Street and the surrounding area. A Devon County Council consultation, offering three options with varying levels of footway widening and one-way systems for traffic, ends on Thursday 10th December. Cllr […]
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5th December 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
This Small Business Saturday, Exeter Green Party is calling on the government to introduce a five-point plan to support small businesses [1], many of which have suffered heavy losses during the coronavirus pandemic [2]. Green Party candidate for St David’s, Amy Sparling, who has worked in the hospitality sector and helped to build supportive communities as manager […]
Cllr Diana Moore, the Green Party councillor for St David’s ward which includes the city centre, has welcomed a request to the Secretary of State to call in the Co-Living development on the Harlequins site. The Planning Committee, dominated by members of Labour’s ruling Executive, granted planning permission for the 251-bedspace accommodation block in October. […]
17th November 2020 by exetergreenparty
The Progressive Group has decried the decision by the Exeter City Council Planning Committee to allow another co-living development in the city as forcing people to live in cramped accommodation while allowing developers to maximise profits. The 133-room development at the former ambulance station site on Gladstone Road was backed by seven councillors, with four […]
11th November 2020 by exetergreenparty
This strategy has been a long time coming. It is disappointing therefore that it fails to address the multiple problems associated with transport with sufficient urgency. Both Devon County Council and Exeter City Council have declared a climate emergency and set dates for achieving carbon neutrality. Yet there are no targets in the strategy for […]
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21st October 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
A motion calling for a system of Proportional Representation (PR) for local elections, brought before Exeter City councillors last night [1], was blocked when both the Labour and Conservative groups refused to back it. Diana Moore, the Green councillor who proposed the motion on behalf of the Progressive Group of councillors, expressed alarm at the […]
19th October 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Exeter councillors will be asked to back a new voting system for local elections at the Full Council meeting this Tuesday. The Progressive Group, consisting of a Green councillor, an Independent and two Liberal Democrat councillors, will put forward a motion [1] calling for a system of Proportional Representation (PR) to replace First Past the […]
25th September 2020 by exetergreenparty
The Progressive Group of councillors on Exeter City Council have called on both Exeter City and Devon County Councils to work together and take advantage of a new government cycling and walking strategy which could see Exeter become a pioneering zero carbon emissions transport city. The ‘Gear Change’ strategy calls for a “a step-change in cycling […]
8th September 2020 by exetergreenparty
A petition signed by over 4200 people online, including 2081 Exeter residents, to ‘stop developers destroying Historic Exeter’ has made Councillors “sit up and listen”, claim its organisers. The petition was presented to the Exeter City Council planning committee on 7th September by Green Councillor Diana Moore. The petition demands that Exeter City Council put […]
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26th August 2020 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
Following weeks of ‘dither and delay’ Greens say their pressure on the Labour-run City Council to release air pollution figures has paid off. Green councillor, Diana Moore, requested air pollution figures for the lockdown period at a Council scrutiny meeting in July. She was told at the time that raw data could not be released […]
