18th August 2025 / 15th August 2025 by Matt Edwards
The Green Party has called for Yorkshire Water to be taken into public ownership after it was revealed the company’s boss was given an extra £1.3 million through an offshore parent company, despite previously claiming it would “not be appropriate” to accept the payment on top of her salary. The revelation comes after a string […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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Mayor of West Yorkshire to demand action following the announcement key early morning and evening services were being withdrawn after month of cancellations and disruption to services in the South of the city.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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
15th November 2022 / 30th March 2023 by Matt Edwards
31st January 2022 / 31st January 2022 by Matt Edwards
22nd April 2020 / 24th April 2020 by Matt Edwards
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25th June 2019 / 24th April 2020 by Matt Edwards
