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 […]
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 […]
21st July 2020 by exetergreenparty
Exeter City Councillors will be asked to vote for the introduction of parking charges at all Leisure Centres and public open space car parks in the city, with the income generated being earmarked for Housing Needs and Homelessness services. The proposal will form one of two amendments being proposed by the Progressive Group of councillors […]
17th July 2020 by exetergreenparty
The Progressive Group of councillors on Exeter City Council are demanding that a new Board which has been asked to shape the future of the city be more open and transparent with both councillors and the people of Exeter. The Place Board was established in 2019 by the Labour Executive of Exeter City Council to […]
1st July 2020 by exetergreenparty
The Progressive group of councillors on Exeter City Council have welcomed a U-turn by the ruling Labour group which will see the city’s leisure facilities brought back under council control. The current leisure contract runs out in September, and the Council has decided in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, to bring the services back […]
25th June 2020 by exetergreenparty
Exeter Green Party Councillor, Diana Moore, has expressed her deep concerns over the lack of openness, transparency and accountability in a new Board established by Labour-led Exeter City Council. Last year the Council established a new body, ‘The Place Board’, to govern the development of new housing plans under the banner of the ‘Liveable Exeter […]
