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PRESS RELEASE: Council must reduce black bag waste and avoid incineration
Another success for Richmond and Twickenham Greens, as Councillor Chas Warlow’s motion on waste incineration passed at the Full Council meeting on Tuesday. Campaigners and experts have serious concerns that the national strategy of sending ever more waste for incineration is harming air quality and preventing us from reaching climate goals. Richmond borough sends 48,000…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greens’ general election result was miscalculated due to Council’s spreadsheet error
Richmond Council today said that an error in using a spreadsheet for the vote count had led to 688 votes being left out of the total for the Green candidate for the Richmond Park constituency, Chas Warlow. The corrected vote share put Mr Warlow into fourth place, lifting him ahead of the Reform UK candidate.…
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PRESS RELEASE: Richmond Council is failing to provide affordable housing
Over the last two months, Richmond’s draft Local Plan, which sets out how Richmond Council will decide on planning applications for new developments in the borough, has been subject to an Examination in Public.[1] Representatives from the GLA, along with Green Councillor Niki Crookdake, provided evidence showing that the current approach by Richmond Council…
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Thanks to voters like you, we achieved our best ever election results!
Greens achieved historic gains across the country in the election, winning seats from both Labour and the Conservatives! A record-breaking vote share and four constituency victories show just how much our party is growing. All of us are determined to honour the mandate that has been given to us and hold the new government to…
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July 2024 General Election Parliamentary Candidates
Thank you to everyone who voted Green on 4th July! Please refer to our Elections page for the latest information. It’s the moment so many of us have been anxiously anticipating – a general election is now set to take place on 4th July. This time, we will be standing in both our…