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 [...]

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 [...]

We are keeping an eye on the council’s improvements to the Dollis Valley environment. Poppy sent this letter, and the reply is pasted below it. Dear Dollis Valley Greenwalk team I am writing as a resident who walks and runs along Whetstone Stray and beyond (behind the school playing fields) most days of the year. [...]

AM Poppy, our London Assembly candidate for Barnet Camden, writes about the increasingly bad tempered standoff between local cyclists and pedestrians It appears that conflict is escalating in an unlikely power struggle between Barnet cyclists and pedestrians. Since the day a month to two ago when I was on a cycling tour hosted by the [...]

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 [...]

If can help in the campaign contact Alexis at alexis.rowell@greenparty.org.uk The Green Party has chosen former Liberal Democrat councillor and Camden Eco Champion, Alexis Rowell, as their candidate for the Highgate by-election on Thursday 15th September. The Green Party’s Maya de Souza topped the poll in Highgate ward in last year’s council elections and the [...]

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 [...]

Darren Johnson, Green member of the London Assembly, meets residents opposed to the Pinkham Way waste treatment plant Join Barnet Green Party in opposing plans for a giant waste treatment plant to serve seven London boroughs, which they want to build at Pinkham Way on North Circular at the border of Barnet and Haringay. For [...]

  Barnet Greens held a “definitely not official” ceremony after helping achieve the reopening of the “green man” pedestrian crossing at the dangerous corner where Totterid ge Lane meets Whetstone High Road. Following objections by residents and a campaign spearheaded by local Barnet Green Party members, Barnet Council has reopened the crossing this week. The [...]

Barnet Greens were among a giant total of 400,000 people – the biggest protest since the invasion of Iraq – who marched through central London on March 26th to protest against the Con-Dem coalition’s proposed public spending cuts.   Gardi Vaswani, who headed the Barnet Greens delegation, said: “We met people from the Green Party [...]