We’re sad that the motion proposed by the Green Party’s Cllr Huw Thomas (Bideford East) to change the voting system in English local elections to PR failed at the full council meeting of Torridge District Council in Bideford on 8 April […]
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TORRIDGE DISTRICT COUNCILBIDEFORD NORTH BY-ELECTION 2nd May 2024 John Puddy, your Green Party candidate, was apprenticed as an engineer with EMI and later moved to marine engineering. In 1982 he installed the first stand-alone wind turbine in England on Lundy. John was employed as the Island Agent for 14 years, helped set up the first […]
Peter Christie has died aged 73. A prolific author he was Britain’s first Green Party Mayor and the youngest ever Mayor of Bideford. Born in Portsmouth to Roy, a Youth Employment Officer, and Sheila, a College secretary he lived for a time in one of the prefabs hastily erected in that heavily bombed city. His parents later moved […]
Torridge District Council’s admission that it is not going to meet its 2030 target of achieving net zero has alarmed local Green Party councillors and members. The worrying news came in a recent report on the council’s carbon footprint delivered to the authority’s Community and Resources (C&R) committee. Green Party councillor Peter Hames, who is […]
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Following a full ballot of all Green Party members in the Torridge and Tavistock constituency, Judy Maciejowska has been overwhelmingly selected to represent the party. Judy is current Coordinator of West Devon Green Party. She lives in Bere Alston in the Tamar Valley where she serves on Bere Ferrers Parish Council. She has been a […]
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Torridge & West Devon is ranked the worst constituency in England for sewage overflows, based on data from 2022. In the wake of this shocking news, Green Party councillors on Torridge District Council called for South West Water (SWW) to be stripped of its consultee role on planning applications for new housing. Cllr Peter Christie, […]
