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26 July 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
You may well have heard about Jude’s walk from Hebden Bridge to Westminster in support of the Zero Carbon Campaign’s petition. If you wish, you can express your support for him by signing the petition.
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23 July 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
Conservative Government proposals to reform planning will lead to a ‘construction free-for-all’ in our area. Government proposals to block residents from objecting to planning proposals represent a big threat to the green spaces in our area, according to Martin Hey, Green Party candidate in Northowram and Shelf: These proposals would create ‘growth areas’ — focused […]
Local Plan hearings reveal that Council building proposals will trigger gridlock on the roads and rising pollution. At the latest Local Plan hearings, Martin Hey, Green Party candidate for Northowram and Shelf, spoke out against the massive house building proposals for our area. This followed the inquiry being shown damning evidence of the impact of […]
Local residents on the Greenacres estate in Shelf have renewed their calls for a solution to be found for the traffic chaos that occurs twice a day during term time. St Michael’s school in Shelf sits at the far end of the estate, leading to small streets in the area being clogged with traffic at […]
9 May 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
Martin Hey achieved the best result for Calderdale Green Party in recent history in the 2021 Local Elections as he gained a 24% share of the vote in Northowram and Shelf, pushing the Labour Party into third place. While this is not the first time a Green Party candidate has come second in a local […]
27 April 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 Andrew Cooper, Green Party West Yorkshire Mayoral candidate, joined Martin Hey, Green Party candidate for Northowram and Shelf, to speak to voters in the ward. Both were extremely pleased with the positive reaction they received from voters. During a busy evening, they paused briefly at Cooper Grove in Shelf for […]
18 April 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
At the March Residents’ Forum in Northowram and Shelf, Green Party candidate Martin Hey described local people’s concerns with the state of our area, as we move out of our long lockdown. Martin highlighted a range of issues that haven’t been addressed over the last 12 months, and which in many cases have become more […]
30 March 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
The Local Plan is a Council-led proposal to build more than 10,000 new homes in Calderdale. The Plan, ordered by the Conservative Government, will trigger the building of nearly 1,000 new houses in our area. The local community in Shelf & Northowram (led by the Local Plan Forum) is fighting the Plan, with the assistance […]
5 February 2021 / 27 July 2024 by johnhudson
Andrew Cooper, Green Party candidate for West Yorkshire Mayor, addressed an open meeting in Calderdale on Tuesday, 2 February 2021 when he set out his plans for West Yorkshire as we come out of the pandemic and deal with the effects of climate change.
8 May 2019 / 29 July 2024 by johnhudson
We congratulate Mark Mullany on being elected to the Stainland and District Parish Council. We had our best results in Calder Valley since 2014 when we did not contest all the seats, taking over 11% of the vote and, compared with 2018, managing to more than double our share of the vote in every seat […]
6 January 2019 / 29 July 2024 by johnhudson
The Talking Politics column with Barry Crossland I trust information from organisations with no need to mislead or distort. The Met Office is such an organisation and they have forecast a rise in global temperatures with increased extreme weather. In Calderdale we have already experienced extreme weather with the Boxing Day floods in 2015 and […]
31 December 2018 / 29 July 2024 by johnhudson
We welcome the report by The Green New Deal Group which, if implemented, would mean hundreds of new skilled ‘green’ jobs across Calderdale. The Green New Deal Group, whose members include Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas MP and tax campaigner Professor Richard Murphy, launched a report* calling for a programme of investment in green infrastructure […]
30 December 2018 / 29 July 2024 by johnhudson