Climate Action
21 March 2024 / 4 October 2024 by Norwich Green party
River Wensum Spring Clean on Saturday the 23rd of March at Anderson’s Meadow With spring just around the corner and the daffodils blooming along the river it’s time for Norwich Green Party campaigners and the local community to get together on Saturday 23rd March for another clean-up session around the River Wensum. Starting at 10.30 am […]
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Climate Action General
28 November 2023 by Norwich Green party
Greens ask council to look again at where it banks – for the climate’s sake Green councillors are calling for money to be shifted away from fossil fuel-funding banks in a motion to Norwich city council. The motion to the full council meeting on 28th November asks that Norwich City Council takes a stance on […]
Climate Action General Sewell
20 November 2023 by Norwich Green party
Sewage dumping is filling the River Wensum Greens are leading the fight against water companies dumping raw sewage Recently Cllr Gary Champion and Cllr Gillian Francis brought a motion to the council that focused on how the River Wensum, which meanders its way through our fine city, needs a higher level of protection. However, n […]
Climate Action Mile Cross
Local action needed to save endangered bird population Motion passed by Green councillors while Labour vote against new nest sites Norwich and Mile Cross are lucky enough to be a hot spot for the summer visiting swifts. On the Amber endangered list, there has been a 53% decline between 1995 and 2016. Their food supply is […]
22 September 2023 by Norwich Green party
Greens demand answers about £100k spent on Love Norwich campaign Our councillors are questioning how a £100,000 fund meant to tackle fly-tipping in Norwich has been spent, as the fly-tipping has nearly doubled in the last year in the city. Fly-tipping is on the rise in Norwich, with 6,000 incidents reported between July 2022 and […]
Campaigns Climate Action General Nelson
28 June 2023 / 23 July 2023 by
Residents to Decorate Dead Street Trees to Highlight Their Loss Residents and Nelson ward councillors will gather on Friday 23 June at 4pm to decorate some of the street trees that have died on Connaught Road with ribbons, leaves, flowers and messages to Norfolk County Council in order to highlight the loss of the city’s […]
Climate Action General Wensum
7 June 2023 / 20 June 2023 by Norwich Green party
Badly-placed EV charging points could obstruct people in wheelchairs or with pushchairs, Green Party councillors have warned. Norfolk County Council proposes to install 46 EV Charging points across Norwich in partnership with a commercial partner, EB Charging. While Norwich Green Group supports improving the infrastructure for EV chargers as a step towards reducing the impact […]
Climate Action Nelson
22 May 2023 / 11 June 2023 by
Greens Call for Major Boost in Council Funding for Trees Nelson Green Party councillors have highlighted the loss of large forest trees and street trees in Norwich in a new report. Average tree canopy cover in Norwich is around 18.6% which is below the 20% minimum cover recommended for inland towns and cities by Forest […]
Climate Action Uncategorised
14 February 2023 / 4 October 2024 by
Not enough parks and green spaces, says charity The charity, Fields in Trust, has found that there is not as much publicly accessible green space as in many other towns and cities. The charity Fields in Trust, which has been protecting parks and recreation grounds for nearly a hundred years, has analysed the amount of […]
20 January 2023 / 29 May 2023 by
Save Norwich’s Street Trees Green councillors are demanding an increase in Norfolk County Council’s budget allocation of £20,000 for planting highways trees in Norwich, after a sample survey showed a large loss of city trees along residential roads . If no action is taken, they fear the gradual loss of trees from the city’s streets and main […]
25 November 2022 / 29 May 2023 by
Norwich 19th out of 68 for green spaces and trees Norwich has been ranked 19th out of a list of 68 UK city centres surveyed for their green spaces and tree cover. (1) Academics from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University measured and compared the green attributes of city centres in cities of over 100,000 […]
15 November 2022 / 29 May 2023 by
More Support for Nature Needed in New Developments At the Climate and Environment Emergency Executive Panel on Tuesday 8 November, Green Councillors will challenge Norwich City Council’s proposed target of ‘at least ten per cent’ Biodiversity Net Gain for all new planning permissions, saying that it lacks ambition and the Council should aim for twenty […]
21 October 2022 / 29 May 2023 by
Green Party councillors will be joining members of the local community on Saturday 29th October to clean up the River Wensum and its banks. Norwich Green Party has held a number of clean-up events over the past five years and continues to campaign to keep the river cleaner and safer. Councillor Gary Champion said: “On previous […]
30 September 2022 / 29 May 2023 by
A Norwich City Council meeting on Thursday saw a Green councillor encourage other council members to set higher targets to protect wildlife such as hedgehogs, bats and bees in the city. Councillor Denise Carlo, who represents Nelson ward, was concerned that the city might adopt the minimum ten per cent target for Biodiversity Net Gain […]