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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 […]
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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 […]