‘Environment’ Archive

Tell us EVEN MORE recycling ideas – so Pinkham Way can be stopped

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 [...]

Say no to Pinkham Way giant waste treatment plant

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 help win Whetstone crossing reopening

  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 on the march!

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 [...]

Stop the tripling of Barnet allotment rents!

Barnet Council is proposing that rents should be increased from the current rate of £6 per pole to £17 per pole for Barnet residents, £34 per pole for non-residents, with effect from April 2012. Here’s the URL for the petition against the increases. Please sign it: www.gopetition.com/petition/42281.html Barnet councillor Daniel Thomas says allotments are just [...]

Bring in congestion charge at Brent Cross and Tally Ho

Barnet Green Party are calling for the introduction of congestion charges in busy and polluted areas such as Brent Cross and Tally Ho Corner. This is just one of the many ideas the party is putting forward to show how Barnet Council could balance its budget without resorting to welfare cuts or closing libraries. Here [...]

Barnet’s ‘Future Shape’ must be sustainable

Expert auditors Grant Thornton have exposed Barnet Council’s Future Shape document as an empty shell, so the borough’s Conservative leaders have given themselves until December to come up with ideas to turn the strategy, better known as ‘EasyCouncil’, into a serious policy rather than a collection of political soundbites. Here’s Barnet GreenParty’s proposal: Abandon the [...]

Greens call on voters to reject C-charge abolition

Barnet Green Party is calling on voters to object to Boris Johnson’s plans to remove part of the London congestion charge zone. Transport for London (TfL) has opened up a consultation asking Londoners for their views on the proposed removal of the western congestion charging zone in central London. Barnet Green Party is urging people [...]

Barnet Greens earn 20,000 votes but still denied seats

Barnet Green Party would like to thank everyone in the borough who voted Green in the national and local elections last week and we would particularly like to thank the dozens of people who helped out, some of whom contacted us out of the blue. The number of Green votes in the Barnet borough elections [...]

Vote Green in Barnet on May 6

Barnet Green Party urges local people to follow your conscience and vote Green both in Thursday’s general election and in the Barnet Council election on the same day, May 6th. “We know Green policies are popular. Our national policies are in first place in the giant survey of more than 250,000 people on vote for [...]