Local News
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 […]
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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