11 February 2021 / 18 March 2024 by Matt Edwards
The Green Party candidate for Mayor of West Yorkshire has criticised the decision to approve Leeds Bradford Airport’s expansion plans, warning it does not make sense in a climate emergency. This was one of Yorkshire’s most controversial planning applications in decades due to the negative environmental damage airport expansion would cause. Planning officers had recommended […]
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25 November 2020 / 18 March 2024 by Matt Edwards
The Chancellor must reverse the decade-long cuts and hand greater control over taxes to local authorities in the Autumn Spending Review on Wednesday, a senior Green councillor has urged. Ahead of Rishi Sunak’s announcement today, the Greens have highlighted how the centralisation of power and funding has hampered the country’s response to the coronavirus and […]
27 February 2020 / 18 March 2024 by Matt Edwards
A senior Green Party councillor has called for West Yorkshire Combined Authority to rethink its support for expansion at Leeds Bradford Airport following the Court of Appeal verdict today. The court of appeal has ruled that plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport are illegal because ministers have failed to adequately take into account […]
2 January 2020 / 18 March 2024 by Matt Edwards
The Green Party in Yorkshire has cautiously welcomed the announcement by the Transport Secretary that Northern Rail is set to be stripped of its franchise. Sheffield-based Green peer and former Party Leader Natalie Bennett has said “Commuters in the North deserve better rail services and we welcome the news that we are finally going to […]
Leader of the Green Group on Bradford Council Martin Love is calling for a radical overhaul of rail across Yorkshire following another year of “woeful” service for rail users across Yorkshire and a failure to implement targets to replace older trains. Councillor Love is calling for a halt of the annual rail fare increases after […]
