Local Elections 2022
12th April 2022 / 12th April 2022 by
We are heading into another round of Kirklees Elections. So the possibility of a Labour Council with a majority doesn’t exactly fill me with hope and joy – just potential disappointment. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of good people in the Labour Party and I would much rather have a Labour Party that […]
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12th April 2022 / 13th April 2022 by
Green Party candidates are contesting 21 wards in Kirklees. Of the 21 candidates, 8 are women. Karen Allison is defending her seat in Newsome ward. Kirkburton parish councillor, Richard Burton, is the Green’s candidate in Kirkburton ward. In Greenhead ward, Heather Peacock, a leading campaigner with Save The Trees Kirklees, is the party’s candidate.
One example [of climate action] is the pilot project retrofitting 8 council properties on Abbey Road in Fartown. Labour Cabinet members trooped up there for a photocall with Labour Leader Keir Starmer. It looks like some good work has been carried out there, but it is a one off pilot project with no plan to […]
On Climate Change, Labour in Kirklees is a pretty average council but talk as if they are national leaders. They just aren’t. Climate Emergency UK who independently assess councils responses to Climate Change gave Kirklees a humiliating 0% due to their lack of a Climate Action Plan to address the problem. This was confirmed this week when […]
Labour has been a shambles on Kirklees Council. The evidence is plentiful. The debacle over the Council breaking it’s promise to host the National Rugby League Museum in The George Hotel, the A629 road widening project which will see the felling of 126 trees on an iconic entrance way to Huddersfield, Labour Councillors backing the building of […]
The prospects of environmental disaster at a local quarry was presented to Kirklees Cabinet in March by Clare Walters, Green Party parish councillor and election candidate for Dalton ward. Clare asked for support from officers but at the end of the meeting was disappointed. Activist and wildlife conservation adviser, Clare Walters who is a member […]
12th April 2022 / 14th April 2022 by
Greens in Bradford and Kirklees are supporting campaigners, Save Our Spen, in fighting plans for a huge new warehouse in Kirklees close to a busy junction on M62. Sited near junction 26 (Chain Bar), it is expected to provide a massive warehouse for Amazon with movements 24 hours a day.
