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3rd February 2025 / 24th February 2025 by exetergreenparty
A green party Councillor is calling for clear and accurate information to be presented to Councillors and the public on the impacts of ending the Active Street Trial (AST) in Heavitree and raised concerns that the Council is misrepresenting results of the ongoing monitoring of traffic, walking and cycling. The call comes in the wake […]
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Green Party Councillors in St David’s ward have accused Exeter Labour of “redefining net zero” after it has been revealed that the City Council’s flagship Liveable Exeter Water Lane development will have no affordable or social housing at all. Reacting to the news, Green group leader on Exeter City Council, Diana Moore, said: “This is […]
28th December 2024 / 28th December 2024 by exetergreenparty
Green Councillors have called for a halt to the sell-off of a green field within the Riverside Valley Park for a large new ’proposed energy centre’. Labour-led Exeter City Council intends to dispose of the 1.8 hectare site at Grace Road Fields between Marsh Barton railway station and the Exeter Ship Canal. A public consultation […]
28th October 2024 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
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. […]
25th October 2024 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
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 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
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 […]
8th October 2024 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
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 […]
