Environment News
30th July 2022 / 6th August 2022 by Editorial Team
Reality wake-up call, Mon 18, and Tues 19 July. More frequent heatwaves, higher than before and English farmers saying their yields knocked back by 20% in a year when threats to national food and fuel supply are hitting headlines, and, more importantly, driving up a dangerous cost of living crisis. One thing leads to another […]
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Transport
29th July 2022 by Editorial Team
From Stourmouth to Elvington to Kingsdown to Eastry, all across Dover district and East Kent there is anger and deep concern about the problems that bus cuts will cause in the autumn. Since February 2022, immediately after the budget cut was voted through by the Conservative majority group at KCC, local Green Party campaigners have […]
Environment
26th July 2022 / 6th August 2022 by Editorial Team
Water is such an important part of our lives. There have been prolonged shortages of rainfall in historic times, notably 1890-1909, 1990-1992 and more recently 1995-1997. The drought in 1995 triggered many drought mitigation, planning and infrastructure reactions prompted by the adverse economic effects. The Environment Agency has described the Dover and Folkestone regions as […]
Development
12th July 2022 / 6th August 2022 by Editorial Team
In March 2021, Dover and Deal Green Party put in a comprehensive 15 page response to the new local plan, suggesting a number of ways that it could become a Local Plan better able to resolve social injustices, better able to protect and restore a depleted natural environment, and become a Plan with genuine 'climate […]