North Finchley is due to acquire a new Cultural Quarter, courtesy of the Mayor’s regeneration funding. Barnet Green Party chair Andrew Newby had a letter published in the Barnet Times (26-1-12, p20), What About the Pollution? Here it is. Below that are Poppy’s reflections on the proposed plans. What about the pollution? The Mayor of [...]

Join Barnet Green Party’s day of action on Saturday when we will be campaigning in Coppetts Ward to highlight the threat posed by the North London Waste Authority’s plans for a mammoth rubbish squashing plant at Pinkham Way in Friern Barnet. In you can help, come to our stall outside the Co-op in Woodhouse Road, [...]

Photo call – do join us! What: London Assembly candidate launch Who: Mayoral candidate Jenny Jones, London Assembly candidate for Barnet and Camden A M Poppy When: 11am, 5 December 2011 Where: Hendon Town Hall,NW4 4BG The Green Party’s AM Poppy will on Monday launch her campaign to become London Assembly member for Barnet and [...]

Green Party member Donald Lyven’s observations on the forum of 23 November: I attended the Finchley Forum at Avenue House last Wednesday.  The problem with customers not using local shops due to pay and display machines being covered is getting very serious.  I heard testimony from shop keepers in Temple Fortune and East Finchley all [...]

A month or so ago we launched our 20mph speed limit on residential streets campaign.                                                        

Poppy had this letter published in the Barnet Times this week (p20): Barnet shares with Wandsworth the dubious distinction of having the greatest number of council employees earning over £150,000 pa (nine of them) according to figures analysed this week by the Green Party. The chief executive’s pay is 12 times more than the London [...]

We are not resting in our pursuit of Barnet’s dodgy investment policies. This week we’ll be writing to them for an update on their investments in tobacco – last year it was announced they had £8million carcinogenic investments. For a long time now we have been pressing the council on its lethal investments in weapons [...]

Please sign our online petition for a 20 mph speed limit in Barnet, at: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/20-mph-speed-limit-on-barnet-residential-streets.html Barnet’s AM Poppy launched her campaign as Green candidate for Barnet and Camden Boroughs in next year’s London Assembly elections by cycling slowly up East Finchley High Road to highlight our campaign for a 20 mph speed limit on Barnet [...]

The North London Waste Authority has made a very welcome tactical retreat on its plan for an unnecessary £100 million waste treatment plant at Pinkham Way. But the battle isn’t over. We need to convince Barnet’s Brian Coleman and the other dinosaurs who sit on the authority that it makes financial as well as environmental [...]

Latest news: The number of ideas has reached 27 but we still want more. We’re sure there are dozens of possibilities. There are so many different things wrong with the planned Pinkham Way waste treatment plant in Friern Barnet that the Green parties in the three boroughs involved have divided up the research responsibilities so [...]