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18th October 2019 / 4th March 2021 by Matt Stratford
Today, Greenwich and Bexley Green Party sent the following letter to London City Airport opposing their plans for expansion. Response regarding the London City Airport Draft Master Plan To whom it may concern: According to the available literature, in 2018 London City Airport served 4.8 million passengers on 80,000 flights. London City Airport predicts that there is […]
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23rd September 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Thirty people gathered at Greenwich Picturehouse on Sunday 22nd September to watch a premiére screening of Dirty: The Fight for Clean Air, a new short film from local filmmaker Mary Waireri. The film explores the development of cross-party Stop the Silvertown Tunnel Coalition (co-ordinated by Greenwich and Bexley Green Party Campaigns Officer Victoria Rance) in […]
13th July 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
At an event at St. Peter’s Church on Thursday 11th July, a panel of transportation and climate experts lined up to urge residents not to give up the fight to get the Silvertown Tunnel construction cancelled. Around 80 local residents, councillors and union representatives turned out to hear a meeting arranged by Stop the Silvertown […]
24th June 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Greenwich and Bexley Green Party representatives joined demonstrators from the No to Silvertown Tunnel Coalition, East Greenwich Residents’ Association (EGRA), Extinction Rebellion Greenwich (XR Greenwich) and local schoolchildren at City Hall on Wednesday, 19th June to protest the imminent award of a contract for constructing a new road tunnel from Silvertown to East Greenwich. How […]
7th June 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Efforts to lobby Transport for London and Greenwich Council to reverse plans to construct a new road tunnel from Silvertown are continuing despite some reports that a contractor for the £1bn scheme is close to being finalised. Greenwich and Bexley Green Party reaffirm the call on Greenwich Council leader Dan Thorpe and TfL Transport Chief […]
30th May 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Green London MEP elected! Following European elections in late May, the Green Party gained over 2 million votes and increased its representation in the European Parliament to 7 MEPs – an increase of 4. This means that the Green Party now has European elected representatives for almost all parts of England except the North East. […]
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17th May 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Greenwich and Bexley Green Party has signed an open letter to the Mayor of London and the Deputy Mayor of London for Transport calling for plans to build a new road tunnel between Newham and Greenwich to be scrapped. The Stop the Silvertown Tunnel coalition is calling for Sadiq Khan to show he means what […]
27th April 2019 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
This week has seen another environmental victory as Greenwich Council has decided to declare a climate emergency. Our co-ordinator, Caolán Byrne, requested that a climate emergency be declared at the February 2019 council meeting and this was met at the time with a blank refusal as the Labour administration argued that the existing strategy was […]
5th January 2019 / 5th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Plans to dredge part of the Thames off Greenwich Peninsula could harm precious wildlife habitats. The owners of the Intercontinental Hotel by the O2 have submitted an application to Greenwich Council to extend the pier that lies adjacent to the Hotel. The pier, known as the Ordinance Wharf pier, is currently disused and the submitted plans seek […]
14th November 2018 / 13th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
A message from Dan Garrun (Greenwich Green Party Co-Ordinator, 2015-2018) on the news that the toxic cruise terminal proposed for Enderby Wharf has been scrapped. It’s official the plans for a dirty, polluting cruise terminal at Enderby Wharf have been binned! And only a few days after the horrendous application to build on the Greenwich […]
8th November 2018 / 5th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
On Tuesday 6 November Greenwich Council Planning Board considered proposals for a 13 storey tower by the Greenwich Ecology Park – and refused them! This is great news for our wildlife. The proposed tower would have cast a very significant shadow over the park, damaging the ecosystem permanently by reducing ground temperatures and sunlight. At […]
26th October 2018 / 3rd April 2019 by Matt Stratford
On 8 October Greenwich & Bexley Green Party held its Annual General Meeting for 2018. The meeting included a huge thank you to Dan Garrun, who served as Coordinator for the Greenwich Green Party from 2015 to 2018, and led the Party to its best ever performance in May’s local elections. Dan resigned his position […]
31st July 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
In the Council elections in May, Greenwich residents voted Green in unprecedented numbers! Green candidates for the target ward of Peninsula (covering East Greenwich) Matt Browne, Dan Garrun and Jenny Murphy got 32% of the vote, up from the 19% achieved in the ward in 2014. Whilst this wasn’t quite enough to win, it has […]
16th April 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
On 3rd May East Greenwich residents have a choice to make at the ballot box – between Labour words on the toxic cruise port and the Green action plan to stop it altogether. The three sitting Labour Cllrs for Peninsula, after years of comparative quiet on the cruise terminal the Labour group they belong to passed […]
9th April 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Green candidates for Peninsula, Dan Garrun, Jenny Murphy and Matt Browne have welcomed the news that further environmental assessments are to take place before plans to dredge part of the Thames off Greenwich Peninsula go ahead. The owners of the Intercontinental Hotel at the O2 submitted an application in September 2017 to Greenwich Council to […]
16th March 2018 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Green candidate for Peninsula ward Dan Garrun is campaigning to overturn planning permission for the Enderby Wharf Cruise Terminal. In 2011, Labour councillors on Greenwich Council’s Planning Board unanimously approved a plan to turn Enderby Wharf into a huge terminal for cruise ships. In 2015 they voted in favour of an even bigger terminal on […]
6th March 2018 / 5th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
Greenwich Green Party has continued to resist plans for a polluting new tunnel in Greenwich. The prospect of a new road tunnel to link the Greenwich Peninsula and Silvertown has been worrying Greenwich residents for years. In 2017 the Government delayed a decision on the plans to allow further consideration of the effect of the […]
9th February 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Revised plans put forward by Taylor Wimpey and Countryside for a tower block development at plot 201 next to the Ecology Park on the Greenwich Peninsula do not take into account serious concerns and should be axed say Greenwich Greens. This week developers put forward plans to build a 13 storey development, down from 20, […]
11th January 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Greenwich can make history if its Labour Council signs up to a pioneering new initiative. The National Park City campaign seeks to designate London as the UK’s first National Park City, a community united by a shared goal of increasing the amount of green space available to its residents. Designation will be achieved by over […]
4th January 2018 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Labour-controlled Greenwich Council continues to put Peninsula residents through a lot of development pain, for very little local gain. Money collected from developers, known as Section 106 payments, is meant to be spent on projects to moderate the impact of the development on the local area. Over the past decade the Labour councillors that control […]
1st December 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Newly published figures suggest that Greenwich Council has collected over £13 million from new developments in Peninsula ward, but have spent only a fraction of that money in the ward itself. The money collected from developers, known as Section 106 payments, is meant to be spent on projects to moderate the impact of the development […]
15th November 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Labour controlled Greenwich Council has approved detailed plans to build on a public park which was created only two years ago. Peninsula Garden was created just south of North Greenwich tube station in 2015 as an ‘ideal rough-and-tumble stomping ground for children to play’ and ‘an idyllic spot to relax’. It features 3 acres of public open spaces, […]
Join us on Saturday 25th November for our latest community litter pick! We’ll be linking up with neighbours and friends in Peninsula to help clean up the streets and have a chat with residents. Meet 11 am, corner of Christchurch Way and Azof Street All equipment will be provided, for more info email Matt Browne Matt.Browne@greenwich.greenparty.org.uk Bring your […]
25th September 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Greenwich residents have expressed outrage after an irreplaceable pond and ecosystem was bulldozed to make space for IKEA’s new car park on the Greenwich Peninsula. The pond located near Bugsby’s Way was an important habitat for newts, specialised plants, invertebrates and migratory birds. It was also a much loved oasis for residents and visitors, who […]