Cost of Living Crisis Local economy
25th November 2024 / 25th November 2024 by exetergreenparty
A Green Party Councillor is challenging the Labour-run City Council to bring back cash payments at Council-run swimming pools, including St Sidwell’s Point and Riverside. The City Council’s leisure centres went cashless in 2020 due to Covid restrictions. However, a promised Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) to examine the impact of this policy has yet to […]
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Cost of Living Crisis Green Spaces
12th February 2024 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Green councillors have written to Labour-led Exeter City Council asking them to restart their consultation on almost doubling allotment fees for the city’s 1,533 allotment holders. Greens say the consultation ignores the Council’s own consultation standards on making changes to council services and charges. St David’s Councillor, Diana Moore, said: “The Council have lost the plot […]
Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Green Spaces Housing Development
16th October 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
A Green Party Councillor has written to Council leader Phil Bialyk seeking assurances about the Clifton Hill site ahead of a full Council meeting next Tuesday, when the future of the site will be discussed [1]. Cllr Andy Ketchin is demanding that at least 35% of the homes built at the site are affordable, that […]
Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Housing Development Net Zero
9th October 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Exeter Labour’s plans to tackle the housing crisis and climate emergency are in “total disarray”, say the Progressive Group of councillors on Exeter City Council. The claim comes following plans by the Labour-run Executive to wind down activity by the Council’s own housing developer, Exeter City Living (ECL). The company was due to build hundreds […]
All Cost of Living Crisis Housing Development
30th August 2023 / 9th April 2024 by andrewbell
Progressive Group councillors have raised alarm at the outcome of a planning inspection of new Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) rates proposed by Exeter’s Labour-run Council. The Progressive Group of Green and Liberal Democrat Councillors on Exeter City Council put forward strong objections to Labour’s proposed CIL rates which, they say, won’t fund the infrastructure needed to […]
Air quality Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Traffic
7th August 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
As the government orders a review into Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTN) schemes, Exeter Green Party councillors are urging Devon County Council to ‘hold its nerve’ and continue to deliver trials of LTNs ‘with confidence’. Heavitree councillor Catherine Rees said: “In their desperation for votes, the Conservative government is fueling culture wars by ordering a review […]
Air quality Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Net Zero Traffic
26th July 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Green Party co-leader of the opposition in Exeter, Diana Moore, has criticised Exeter City Council for failing to meet with local enterprise Co-Cars to discuss what support they might need to rework their business model and continue operation in the city. Co-Cars, including Co-Bikes, ceased trading last week citing financial difficulties brought on by the […]
All Climate action Cost of Living Crisis Elections Green Spaces Housing Development
15th April 2023 / 19th March 2024 by andrewbell
Decent affordable homes in Exeter, built in the right places and to the highest environmental standards, is the key priority being made by Exeter Green Party as they launch their local election campaign. They also want communities to have a better say in shaping Exeter’s future development plans, increased investment in parks and green spaces, […]
All Cost of Living Crisis
19th December 2022 / 19th March 2024 by margaretpickering
Progressive councillors question proposed Exeter lottery The Progressive Group of Councillors has described a proposed lottery in Exeter as poorly thought through, with many questions remaining. The Labour-led Council pushed through the establishment of a community lottery for Exeter to raise money to support the city’s voluntary sector. See detail here. Progressive group Councillors are […]
1st April 2022 / 19th March 2024 by exetergreenparty
As Labour claims the cost of living crisis will be at the centre of their local election campaign this year, Exeter Green Party is accusing Labour-run Exeter City Council of putting profit before people and the environment. They say that Labour’s backing for a Council-run property company to let homes at market rents will do […]
