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28th October 2024 / 28th October 2024 by andrewbell
Following Keir Starmer’s confirmation that Rachel Reeves will announce in the Budget on Wednesday that the £2 single bus fare cap will be increased to £3 in the New Year, Exeter Green Party campaigner, Thomas Richardson, said: “What we need is a budget that puts us on the road to a fairer, greener transport system. […]
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25th October 2024 by andrewbell
Exeter Green Party Councillors say the Labour-run Council is “out of fresh ideas” over plans to redevelop the old bus station site. The Labour leader confirmed at a full Council meeting last week that plans to turn the space into a temporary car park would go ahead, but that longer term there were plans for […]
22nd October 2024 / 22nd October 2024 by andrewbell
Without a significant and sustained increase in funding for local authorities, Exeter City Council’s ability to deliver crucial services, including supporting some of the most vulnerable in society, is under threat, leaders of the Progressive Group on the Council have warned. Writing to the city’s MPs, Steve Race and David Reed, they urge them to […]
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8th October 2024 / 8th October 2024 by andrewbell
Exeter’s Labour-led City Council has decided to sell off part of the Grace Road Playing Fields – green space which is part of the River Valley Park. The sale is to a company who want to build a district heating plant on the site. [1] Green Councillor Andy Ketchin is challenging this decision. Cllr Ketchin […]
1st October 2024 / 7th October 2024 by andrewbell
Green councillor Diana Moore is calling for an investigation after the Labour-led Council snubbed a £6.5 million grant earmarked for replacing antiquated heating systems with cleaner, greener solutions and insulation at two of the Council’s biggest assets. Exeter City Council claims the planned projects at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) and the Riverside Leisure […]
30th September 2024 / 7th October 2024 by andrewbell
After 140 years, today marks the end of coal-powered electricity generation in the UK, with the shutting of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, the last coal fired power station in the UK. Green councillor for Newtown and St Leonard’s, Andy Ketchin, formerly worked in the electricity industry. He said: “I look back and see how far we’ve come with […]
22nd September 2024 / 7th October 2024 by andrewbell
Exeter Green Party has launched a campaign to stop the building of a car park on the site of the former bus station in the city centre and is inviting residents in Exeter to put forward alternative positive ideas [1]. The Green Party revealed last month that it is the intention of the Labour administration […]
29th August 2024 / 7th October 2024 by andrewbell
A Green councillor has called for strong political leadership to prevent Exeter missing out on a chunk of money earmarked to improve bus services in the city. The call from Councillor Lynn Wetenhall, a member of the Exeter Highways and Traffic Orders Committee (HATOC), comes after Labour, Conservative and Independent councillors rejected proposals to improve […]
20th August 2024 / 7th October 2024 by andrewbell
A Green councillor has warned of a ‘democratic deficit’ in the Heavitree & Whipton Barton Division in Exeter. Councillor Carol Bennett made the warning due to the absence of any councillor representing Heavitree being involved in discussions on the next steps following the suspension of the Active Streets Trial (AST). Councillor Bennett has written to […]
19th August 2024 by andrewbell
Commenting on proposals announced at the Exeter City Council Executive meeting on Tuesday that there are plans to create a new car park on the site of the old bus station [1], Green Councillor Diana Moore, who spoke at the meeting, said: “A new car park, right next to St Sidwell’s Point, a place which […]
16th July 2024 by andrewbell
Greens push for primary care as part of Water Lane development Green councillors in St David’s, Exeter, a ward earmarked for a major new housing development, have written to NHS Devon challenging their lack of plans to commission new primary care facilities in the area [1]. Greens say the scale of the Water Lane development […]
5th July 2024 by andrewbell
The Green Party is celebrating achieving its best ever result in a general election in Exeter, finishing just behind the Conservatives in third place. The Green Party says the result in Exeter has confirmed that it is the main challenger to Labour in the city. Green Party parliamentary candidate Andrew Bell received just under 6000 […]
12th June 2024 / 12th June 2024 by andrewbell
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 / 3rd June 2024 by andrewbell
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 by andrewbell
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 […]
22nd May 2024 by andrewbell
The Green Party parliamentary candidate in Exeter, Andrew Bell [1], says the forthcoming General Election is a chance for voters in the city to choose hope and practical solutions to the crises facing the country. Pointing to the local election results in May within the new parliamentary boundary, Andrew Bell says the choice in Exeter […]
21st May 2024 / 21st May 2024 by andrewbell
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 by andrewbell
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 by andrewbell
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 by andrewbell
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 by andrewbell
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 […]
20th February 2024 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
The Progressive Group on Exeter City Council will present amendments to the Labour administration’s proposed budget at the Full Council meeting on Tuesday which they say will focus on improving services for residents [1]. The proposals by the official opposition group of Green and Liberal Democrat Councillors on the City Council include investment in street […]
12th December 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
Green councillors will propose a motion to Exeter’s Full Council meeting on Tuesday urging councillors to back a motion which calls on the UK government to press for an “urgent permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Israel and the rest of Palestine.” It also commits councillors to “explore how the Council can better support and facilitate events […]
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1st December 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
The Green Party has announced that Andrew Bell has been chosen by local members to fight the Exeter parliamentary seat at the next general election. Andrew Bell has lived in Exeter for over 20 years; his children were born in the city and attended local schools. He is a former teacher and previously worked as […]
