Celia Hickson 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.

Bradford Council Celia Hickson Greenbelt Matt Edwards Tong Valley Tong Ward

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. […]

Bradford Council Bradford South Celia Hickson Matt Edwards Public Transport Tong Ward

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Mayor of West Yorkshire to demand action following the announcement key early morning and evening services were being withdrawn after month of cancellations and disruption to services in the South of the city.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

Bierley Bradford South Celia Hickson Greenbelt Housing Spen View Lane Tong Ward

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 […]

An open sewer discharging into a local river

Bingley Ward Celia Hickson Craven Ward Ilkley Ward Janet Russell Keighley Parliament Constituency River Pollution Shipley Parliament Constituency Shipley Ward

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 […]

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.

Bradford Council Celia Hickson Craven Ward Ilkley Ward Keighley Parliament Constituency River Pollution

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.

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 […]

Councillors raise concerns about cuts to Household Waste Centre opening times

15th November 2022 / 30th March 2023 by Matt Edwards

Green Party leader visits Bradford

31st January 2022 / 31st January 2022 by Matt Edwards

Green campaigner calls for woodlands to be reopened

22nd April 2020 / 24th April 2020 by Matt Edwards

Bradford Green candidates welcome General Election

31st October 2019 / 24th April 2020 by Matt Edwards

Greens announce prospective General Election candidates

25th June 2019 / 24th April 2020 by Matt Edwards

Bradford Greens celebrate historic election results.

5th May 2019 / 25th April 2020 by Matt Edwards

Green Party welcome the first year in over a decade that grouse shooting has not taken place on Ilkley Moor

11th August 2018 / 26th April 2020 by Matt Edwards

Green Party call for U-turn on Keighley Incinerator as rates of waste being burned surges

20th July 2018 / 25th April 2020 by Matt Edwards