Matt Edwards

Greens select popular businesswoman as candidate for key council seat

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

A popular local businesswoman has been selected by the Green Party as their candidate for Tong Ward. Green Party members voted to select Ursula Sutcliffe, who owned and ran the popular plant shop and cafe ‘Plant One On Me’ in Bradford City Centre until it closed last year. Ursula has lived in Holmewood for nearly thirty […]

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

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.

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

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

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

Government pushing an “anti-cycling narrative that is making things far more dangerous for cyclists”

17th August 2022 by Matt Edwards

Sunak “is not fit to be Prime Minister” after bragging he took money from deprived areas

5th August 2022 / 30th March 2023 by Green Party Admin

Bradford Councillor chosen to be a national spokesperson for the Green Party.

29th June 2022 / 30th March 2023 by Matt Edwards

Mind the gap: Greens demand closing the gulf between rail investment in South and North of England

24th May 2022 / 13th July 2022 by Matt Edwards

Green Party uncovers Bradford’s fly tipping hotspots

27th February 2022 / 27th February 2022 by Matt Edwards

Greens push Bradford Council to ensure new homes are built to higher standards

27th January 2022 / 27th January 2022 by Matt Edwards

Councillor calls for Tong Street works to focus on improving air quality

4th January 2022 / 27th January 2022 by Matt Edwards

Greens raise concerns about overdevelopment around Oakenshaw

4th December 2021 / 27th January 2022 by Matt Edwards

“Why are flights cheaper than trains to a climate change conference” asks Green Councillor.

3rd November 2021 / 3rd November 2021 by Matt Edwards