14th August 2025 / 15th August 2025 by Matt Edwards
Local campaigners and Tong Ward councillors have submitted a petition calling on Bradford Council to stop the sale of green belt land off Westgate Hill Street, where a developer wants to build 1,000 houses and industrial units. Over 1000 people have signed the petition which was started by Julia McGoldrick-Hayden, chair of the Tong and […]
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22nd July 2025 / 14th August 2025 by Matt Edwards
Green Party councillors in Tong Ward are calling for urgent action to demolish the former Yorkshire Martyrs School off Westgate Hill Street following yet another fire at the site over the weekend. Emergency services were called out once again to deal with a blaze at the abandoned building — the latest in a string of […]
24th June 2025 / 14th August 2025 by Matt Edwards
Ilkley’s Green Councillor Ros Brown has spoken out about Starbucks erecting a 9-metre-high sign on the Wheatley Lane drive-thru site without first gaining planning permission. The planning application for the sign is due to be decided by Bradford Council on 1st July. “A resident took this photo of the sign this morning with me standing next […]
6th March 2025 / 6th March 2025 by Matt Edwards
Green Party councillors have put forward proposals at the Bradford Council Budget meeting, showing that more could have been done to avoid the 10% council tax increase – which is the highest in the country. Green Councillors have made it clear that they would not support any budget “where Bradford residents are being forced to […]
25th February 2025 / 25th February 2025 by Matt Edwards
Green Party councillors have welcomed the announcement that the West Yorkshire Combined Authority has stepped in to fund vital school bus services – but have demanded answers over how proposals to cut them were made without alternatives being looked at first. Councillor Matt Edwards (Green Party – Tong Ward), who has been speaking out against […]
3rd February 2025 / 3rd February 2025 by Matt Edwards
Green councillors have responded to news that Labour-run Bradford Council has been granted permission to increase council tax by 9.99% – the biggest increase of any council in the country. Councillor Neil Whitaker (Craven) the finance lead for the Green Party on Bradford Council has said, “It is shameful that the new Labour government has […]
16th January 2025 / 16th January 2025 by Matt Edwards
A Green councillor has labelled proposals for a sprawling development of over a thousand houses in greenbelt as being “everything wrong with the planning system.” This is in response to a planning application from Hallam Land to build on a 124 acres green belt site off Westgate Hill Street, in the Tong and Fulneck Valley. […]
15th January 2025 by Matt Edwards
Green councillors have responded to news that Labour-run Bradford Council was looking to increase council tax by up to 14.99%. Councillor Neil Whitaker (Craven) who is the Green Party’s finance spokesperson has said, “I know many people are going to be very angry if they have to pay significantly more Council Tax for even […]
16th December 2024 / 16th December 2024 by Matt Edwards
Three Councillors have written to the bosses at Arriva and the Mayor of West Yorkshire to demand action following the announcement key early morning and evening services were being withdrawn after month of cancellations and disruption to services in the South of the city. Today, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority announced new timetables for some […]
19th November 2024 by Matt Edwards
A Green Party councillor has urged council bosses to save school buses at two district schools. On Tuesday, Bradford Council launched a consultation on proposals to withdraw the routes to St Bede’s and St Joseph’s Catholic Collage and Bingley Grammar School from September 2025. But at a Council meeting, Councillor Matt Edwards, the Leader of […]
1st November 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens
Green Party councillors have welcomed the decision by West Yorkshire Combined Authority to approve funding for the A629 bridge project at the Steeton and Silsden roundabout. The meeting of the Combined Authority on 31st October approved funding for phase 1 of the long-awaited bridge to help people cross the busy Aire Valley Trunk Road. In […]
19th September 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens
THE NEC Group has pulled out of the multi-million pound Bradford Live project with “immediate effect”, it has been confirmed this afternoon. Councillor Matt Edwards, leader of the Green Party Group on Bradford Council, said: “At last the Bradford public is getting confirmation of what has been one of the worst kept secrets in the district. “Despite […]
6th March 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens
Councillor Matt Edwards, the leader of the Green Party on Bradford Council, has responded to the latest Conservative budget that offers little for most people in Bradford. Councillor Edwards said, “Bradford has suffered under fourteen years of economic mismanagement by this Conservative government. Our district needs investment in public services but all this government had […]
15th January 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens
The Leader of the Green Party group on Bradford Council has written to the West Yorkshire Mayor, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority and senior officers at Bradford Council demanding answers over the closure of Bradford Interchange. Bradford Interchange was closed on Friday 5th January but over a week later, little information has been provided as to […]
30th October 2023 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens
Following the announcement that Bradford Council faces an overspend of £68m in the coming year, the Leader of the Green Party Group on Bradford Council said: “We can’t get around the fact this announcement today is bad news for taxpayers in Bradford. We have had many years of significant Council Tax rises whilst every day […]
