Deal Town Council Dover Town Council Environment Walmer Town Council
7th September 2024 / 29th September 2024 by Editorial Team
On 25th July 2024 Green Party councillor Sarah Waite-Gleave was on the BBC local news speaking out about how worried local swimmers are that the seawater at Deal Castle Beach has been down-graded from ‘excellent’ in 2019, to ‘good’ in 2021 and to ‘sufficient’ in 2023. The week earlier this story was on the front page […]
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Deal Town Council Environment Walmer Town Council
8th November 2023 by Editorial Team
All of us who watch Planet Earth and David Attenborough will be concerned about the sixth mass extinction of wildlife and the urgent need for nature recovery especially here in the UK and the southeast. For all of us who are nature and climate concerned, there is good news from Walmer and Deal town councils. […]
Environment
21st January 2023 by Editorial Team
Campaigners of Dover and Deal Green Party have been working to protect wildlife at Betteshanger supporting the community group Friends of Betteshanger (FB) since 2020. In 2022 after the opening of the Kent Mining museum, applications were put in to take over key sections of the site to the east of the A258 roundabout at […]
DDC Environment
23rd October 2022 / 23rd October 2022 by Editorial Team
At 5pm on 19 Oct 2022, environmental campaigners representing Sandwich Environmental Conservation Group, East Kent Climate Action, Transition town Dover and East Kent Against Fracking gathered in front of DDC council chambers at Whitfield. Like many across England, they asked their local council to stand up with them against the betrayals by the central chaotic […]
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 […]
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 […]
Environment Transport
14th May 2022 / 17th May 2022 by Editorial Team
Letter to Dover local press. 8 May 2022 We welcome the good news from Port of Dover and Doug Bannister about their plan for our port to be Carbon Net Zero by 2030. The article in Dover Express on 5 May said plans include the sourcing of alternative fuels, utilization of renewable energy sources, port […]
17th April 2022 by Editorial Team
by Cllr Mike Eddy, Deal Town Council You know that the messages about the need for more trees must be getting through, when the Saturday Guardian (16 April 2022) has 2 pages on “the life-changing magic of planting trees” in its Lifestyle section. And in the list of 5 things you can do to help, […]
17th December 2021 / 17th April 2022 by Editorial Team
Local Dover district Green party members joined other local folk and campaigners across Kent on a day of action on Sun 28 November, ‘Save Kent’s Green Spaces’. Thirty communities across Kent took part in this big event, disgusted at the mis-use of the planning system. Of the 13 District / Borough councils in Kent, which […]
6th December 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Our Green Party members did some of the key local organising for Climate Friday events
11th November 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Two Project Advisory Groups have disappeared from DDC website this week, with the Conservative cabinet becoming more secretive on issues
Deal Town Council Environment
29th October 2021 / 13th May 2023 by Editorial Team
Deal Town Council Tuesday 26th October: A resolution initiated by Green Party cllr Christine Oliver passed with cross-party support. "Deal Town Council condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision by the MP for Dover & Deal to vote in favour of allowing water companies to discharge raw sewage into the sea & water courses […]
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16th October 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
That’s the headline on the front cover of the latest edition of British Archaeology, published by the national Council for British Archaeology.
29th July 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Text of letter published in local press 29-July 2021 (before a weekend of downpours caused roads to flood in our own towns) We see flood catastrophes half day's coach / train trip from East Kent, places visited by many of us for Christmas markets over the years; almost 200 humans and many animals drowned. Floods […]
13th March 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
We, the people of East Kent, need to speak up for our land and homes before Wed 17th March, the deadline of the vital Reg 18 consultation on Dover District’s new Local Plan. Our responses will be seen by the national planning inspectorate, so let’s provide lots! The 3 things that people keep asking DDC […]
20th January 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Regarding Agenda item 14 - DDC Climate Change Strategy. From : Green Party nominee on DDC Climate Change Working Group, Sarah Gleave / Mike Eddy job share. In 2021, especially during the sickness and impoverishment of the pandemic, action to deal with the Climate and Ecological crisis is not just a desirable add-on, to trim […]
16th January 2021 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Press Statement The 7 Conservative cabinet members of DDC have announced they are pushing through their version of a Climate Change strategy at their Cabinet meeting on 11th January 2021, with 2 press releases on 8th and 12th January 2021. Using our co-opted seat on the cross-party DDC climate change working group, Dover and Deal […]
10th December 2019 / 3rd September 2020 by Editorial Team
Why? Because we're now 3rd party in Dover District Because our councillors initiated 3 Climate Emergency Declarations @ town/parish level in 2019 Kent’s culture is deferential. Some say, who are you to challenge the establishment? Our party refounded in February 2015, then gained 10 seats in May 2019 parish and town elections. And we missed […]
21st October 2019 / 20th March 2022 by Editorial Team
Is there is a lack of political will at Dover District Council (DDC) cabinet to stand up to aggressive volume developers? We have the evidence of how, elsewhere in England, developers are made to listen to more democratic councils. There are fine words in the early DDC 2018 documents on regeneration and the new Local […]
7th June 2019 / 12th April 2022 by Editorial Team
We were delighted to support the cross-party Youth Strike 4 climate demonstration in Deal on 24 May 2019. 108 towns across UK also had demos on the same day. Zero carbon 2030! System change not climate change!
Action Plan Environment
23rd March 2019 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
Theme 1 of our Action Plan 2019 Dover District Council needs to take steps to ensure our district is carbon neutral by 2030. On current trends, world temperatures will overshoot the global target of restricting temperate rises to 2 degrees centigrade, which will already have extremely serious effects. Not enough is being done. Kent County […]
On fracking our view is very simple – not in Eastry, Timanstone, Guston, Shepherdswell or anywhere else. Fracking is unnecessary. We should stop creating greenhouse gasses and move to renewables. Fracking is dangerous. We live on chalk lands and the noxious chemicals will probably get into our water table. It causes earthquakes which result in large […]
6th March 2019 / 13th April 2020 by Editorial Team
On 6 March, John Lonsdale and Sarah Gleave of Dover district’s Green Party put in a formal question to the Dover District Council (DDC) Conservative Cabinet, appealing for them to act now on the Climate Emergency in the interests of young Dovorians. As Sir David Attenborough and the IPCC say, we have only 12 years […]
Air Quality Environment News
30th May 2018 by Editorial Team
Environmentalists held a small demonstration in the car park on the proposed new Aldi store in a bid to save nine mature trees. The German chain plans to remove the features to make way for its brand new 1,254 sqm supermarket and 128 space car park on the current Co-op site in Park Street, Deal. […]