Tong Ward Archives - Bradford District Green Party

Councillor Celia Hickson with residents Iain and Diane McInnes with the development site behind. It is an area of green field with trees.

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Westgate Hill Street planning application “everything wrong with the planning system”

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. […]

Councillor Matt Edwards stood with his arms crossed in front of Bradford City Hall.

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Greens response to potential council tax rise of up to 15%

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 […]

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Bradford bus users “being forgotten about yet again”

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Mayor of West Yorkshire to demand action following the announcement key early morning and evening services were being withdrawn after month of cancellations and disruption to services in the South of the city.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 […]

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Councillor calls for action to save school buses

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 […]

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Concerns raised as more houses planned in Bierley

12th November 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

A Green councillor has raised concerns after another planning application has been submitted to build houses on green space in Bierley. This is the fourth planning proposal for new houses on green space in Bierley in four years and would see 59 houses built on a field of the former Lockwood Farm. It also comes […]

Bradford South Ilkley Ward Keighley Parliament Constituency Matt Edwards National Public Transport Ros Brown Tong Ward

Green councillors have urged the Labour Mayor of West Yorkshire to keep bus fares down.

8th November 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

Green councillors have urged the Labour Mayor of West Yorkshire to keep £2 bus fare cap. In a letter to Tracy Brabin, Green Party councillors have called on her to follow the lead of her counterpart in Greater Manchester and commit to keeping the bus fare cap at £2.00. This comes as the new government […]

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Local voices will be silenced in Labour planning reforms claim Green Party councillors

1st October 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

Labour’s proposed planning reforms will silence local voices and impose huge house building targets that ignore real local need, Green Party councillors on Bradford Council claim. The new government has announced an overhaul of the planning system which will involve new mandatory targets for councils and a review of the current greenbelt. But Green councillors […]

Matt Edwards standing in front of Bradford Live (the former Odeon building)

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Green councillor responds to news NEC Group pull out of Bradford Live

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 […]

a photograph of Matt Edwards at the podium on the stage at Green Party conference

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Greens call for investment in high speed rail for Bradford at national conference

9th September 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

Delegates at Green Party conference in Manchester have backed a new Northern Powerhouse rail line with a through station at Bradford. Green Party spokesperson on transport Councillor Matt Edwards, who is leader of the Green Group on Bradford Council spoke in favour of the policy. Celebrating the vote he said: “I am delighted that the […]

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Leader of Greens on Bradford Council selected as party’s candidate for Bradford South

24th May 2024 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

The Green Party has today announced Councillor Matt Edwards will be their candidate for the Bradford South constituency at the General Election on 4th July. Councillor Edwards was first elected to Bradford Council in 2021 and was re-elected on May 2nd with one of the largest vote shares in Bradford. He represents Tong Ward which […]

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Green Leader on Bradford Council responds to the budget

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 […]

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Councillor raises questions over Interchange closure

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 […]

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“The loss of human life in this conflict is heartbreaking.” – Bradford Greens call for Gaza ceasefire

13th November 2023 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

Bradford Green Party called on both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to back a ceasefire in Gaza saying “silence is complicity” Matt Edwards, Leader of the Green Group on Bradford Council said: “The loss of human life in this conflict is heartbreaking. The terrorist attacks by Hamas on 7th October were […]

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Statement on Bradford Council overspend

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 […]

An open sewer discharging into a local river

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Yorkshire Water should be apologising for higher bills

30th May 2023 / 11th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

An apology from Yorkshire Water’s chief executive over sewage discharges is not good enough according to Green Party councillors on Bradford Council who say they should be apologising for charging people for services they failed to deliver Nicola Shaw apologised because Yorkshire Water had “taken too long” to produce a plan to tackle sewage being […]

Councillor Matt Edwards standing at a bus stop with a single decker grey First Bus in the background approaching the bus stop.

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Petition launched to reverse cuts to 508 bus

11th April 2023 / 11th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

A petition has been started calling on First Bus to reverse their cuts to the 508 bus service which connects Leeds City Centre with Halifax via the South of Bradford. The petition was started by Councillor Matt Edwards, who represents Tong Ward and is also the Green Party’s national Transport spokesperson. The 508 runs along […]

Councillor Matt Edwards standing outside the Holmewood Social Club, a 50s era brick building/ There is a large amount of waste dumped outside.

Bradford South Fly-tipping Holmewood Matt Edwards Tong Ward

Councillor demands enforcement on former social club owner

7th April 2023 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

A councillor has called on Bradford Council to take action on the owner of a prominent building in Holmewood – months after he was granted planning permission to demolish the building. Councillor Matt Edwards has called on Bradford Council to take action against the owner of the Holmewood Social Club for failing to keep the […]

Carla Denyer and Ros Brown talking to each other on the banks of the River Whatfe. There are a lot of trees on both sides of the river and a small suspension bridge in the background.

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Greens lead call for action to tackle sewage discharges in rivers

16th March 2023 / 12th November 2024 by bradfordgreens

Bradford Council has agreed to demand that Yorkshire Water and the government do more to tackle sewage discharge into the district's rivers following Green Party proposals. Councillor Celia Hickson called on the Chief Executive of Bradford Council to do more to hold Yorkshire Water to account following data that showed the water company had pumped sewage into the River Aire 4,085 times in 2021 - the highest number of any river in Great Britain.

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Greens select popular businesswoman as candidate for key council seat

28th February 2023 / 12th November 2024 by Matt Edwards

Councillors Matt Edwards and Celia HIckson stood outside the front of Holmewood Library. A curved building with yellow painted walls

Bradford South Celia Hickson Holmewood Matt Edwards Tong Ward

Green Councillors welcome reopening of Holmewood Library

20th February 2023 / 12th November 2024 by Matt Edwards

Green Party councillors for Tong Ward have welcomed the re-opening of Holmewood Library. The new library has been relocated within the recently refurbished TFD Centre on Broadstone Way. Initially, it will be open on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm and run by volunteers. Tong Ward’s Green Party councillors Matt Edwards and Celia Hickson have welcomed the […]

Black and white photograph of a children's teddy being held by a child. In the background is a window with rain.

Bradford Council Bradford East Bradford South Bradford West Celia Hickson Keighley Parliament Constituency Matt Edwards Shipley Parliament Constituency Tong Ward

Greens respond to “inadequate” Ofsted report into Bradford Children’s Services.

31st January 2023 / 12th November 2024 by Matt Edwards

Bradford Green Party has responded to the release of the latest Ofsted report into Children’s Services which ranks the service as “inadequate” and highlights “widespread failures” in social work practice. Green Party councillors have also called for the Leader of The Council to consider her position in light of the “shameful” report which states “corporate […]

Councillor Matt Edwards stood outside Bradford Forster Square with arms crossed

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Greens call for public transport investment as new data reveals 1 in 4 don’t drive

9th January 2023 / 12th November 2024 by Matt Edwards

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Greens call for action on “social housing crisis”

14th December 2022 / 12th November 2024 by Matt Edwards

Amazon Warehouse “will direct HGVs on to congested roads in Bradford”

6th December 2022 / 30th March 2023 by Matt Edwards