Noel Lynch and Steve Norman of Barnet Green Party with Jean Lambert MEP at Tally Ho Corner during the Council Elections campaign in 2006

Barnet Green Party will launch its 2010 Barnet Council election campaign at 11.00 am on Saturday 10th April at the pollution monitor at Tally Ho Corner in North Finchley. Green Party candidates from across the borough will be joined by Green Party MEP, Jean Lambert.

Why not come along and meet us?

For further details contact: Andrew Newby

Then on Sunday 18^th Donald Lyven, Green Party parliamentary candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, and Andrew Newby, Green Party candidate for Hendon, will attempt to fly a kite to 140 metres, the height of the chimney at the incinerator which the Brent Cross Cricklewood developers propose to build.

The attempt will take place at Clitterhouse Playing Fields at 1.00 pm and should be a spectaculr sight. Why not come and join us?

Contact: Donald Lyven.

In the Barnet Council elections, the Green Party is fielding its strongest team ever.

Seasoned campaigners Noel Lynch, Andrew Newby and Steve Norman are contesting the party’s target ward of East Finchley, where Lynch achieved the party’s highest Barnet vote in 2006.

Another impressive Green Party line up is in Mill Hill Ward, where locally-based twin sisters Dilan and Dilem Kurt are lining up alongside former borough councillor David Williams. (pictures attached).

In Totteridge Ward, Katie Margolis and Julie Rosenfield are aiming to build on the high vote achieved by Andrew Newby in 2006, when he posted the second highest Green vote in the borough, beating Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates.

The pollution monitor is the place where the party launched its council election campaign in 2006 and the Greens have chosen it again because they say nothing has been done in the past four years to improve the situation.

“In January, the monitor showed that nitrogen dioxide levels at Tally Ho Corner averaged 80 microgrammes per cubic metre, double the World Health Organisation’s recommended maximum level,” said Gardi Vaswani, the Green Party’s lead candidate for Woodhouse Ward, which includes North Finchley.

“Emissions in North Finchley may be no worse than other places in the borough – we just don’t know as it is one of only a handful of monitors across the borough. Probably many other places are as bad for pollution and the council has no budget for reducing emissions levels,” Vaswani said.

Lyven and Newby’s kite flying plan aims to mock the Brent Cross Cricklewood developers’ denial that the 140 metre chimney will spew fumes across the whole of North London.

“Of course it will,” said Lyven. “140 metres is an enormous height. The legal maximum height for flying a kite is less than half of that – 60 metres in fact. If anyone tries to stop us we’ll ask how come the developers expect to get away with building a polluting chimney 140 metres tall when we can only fly a kite to 60 metres.”

Caroline Lucas delivers her keynote speech at The Arts Depot in North Finchley

A photo slideshow of the Green Party Conference including Caroline Lucas’ rousing keynote speech at the Arts Depot in North Finchley can be viewed here.


Caroline Lucas’ speech can be viewed here

BBC News report of the Conference here

Here are links to reports in the local press, The Hendon, Finchley, Barnet, Potters Bar, Edgware, Mill Hill Times
Keynote speech by Caroline Lucas in North Finchley promises Green Party action on inequality

Green Party conference held in Finchley

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas with Alex Philips, newly elected Green councillor for Hove

The Green Party Conference is coming to Finchley. The Arts Depot in North Finchley will host the 2010 Spring conference from this Thursday, February 18th, to Sunday 21st. It’s a fabulous opportunity for local people to find out more about the policies and values of the party in what will be council and general election year.

The Arts Depot opened in October 2004 offering a wide variety of events including theatre, music, dance, comedy and the visual arts and has become a respected part of the local and wider community. Having recently celebrated it’s 5th birthday the arts centre has been involved in many community activities like its education and outreach programmes.

Barnet Greens are excited by the prospect of welcoming the national party into our neck-of-the-woods. We’re also looking forward to engaging with the issues and spreading the word about what Greens have got to offer as a party.

Green Party Spring Conference 2010 will be held from the 18th to 21st February at The Arts Depot, North Finchley, London, N12 0GA.

More information can be found here