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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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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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, […]
It was with great sadness that Torridge Green Party learned of the death late in December of Rosemary Gent, our steering committee member and parish councillor for Littleham and Landcross. Rosemary had a distinguished career in the world of classical music as artistic administrator of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1994-99) before returning to the UK […]
Responding to the news that the government is scrapping ‘nutrient neutrality’ rules as a way to boost house building, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has warned it could lead to the ecological collapse of our waterways and has repeated a call to take water back into public ownership. Nutrient neutrality rules were put in place […]
