Lancaster & District Green Party

Within half an hour of the British National Party (BNP) setting up a stall in Lancaster Market Square this saturday there was a spontaneous response from local concerned people who gathered quickly and surrounded the BNP stall. Standing in front of the stall with anti-fascist leaflets the local people shouted “keep racists out of Lancaster”. Unable to continue leafleting the BNP got fed up and packed up their stall and eventually drove off to cheers and jeers and were told not to come back!
The full story is posted on the Indymedia website.

The work of cartoonist POLYP, has been animated and can be seen on the International Friends of the Earth YouTube. The rat race cartoon appears in the new Big Green View newspaper launched by the Green party across North Lancashire over the summer. POLYPs work has previously appeared in The Big Issue, The New Internationalist and has been used to support many campaigns.
To see more cartoons check out the POLYP website.

Residents group Its Our City have produced a briefing for people who want to send in representations to the City Council Planning Dept on the current Centros applications for the Canal Corridor. Details can be found on the Its Our City website.
The deadline for getting responses in is Aug 7th.

Green Party Principal Speaker , Caroline Lucas MEP, has condemned chancellor Alastair Darling’s decision to delay the planned increase in fuel duty for a second time.Dr Lucas argues that cutting fuel prices, increasing fuel consumption, can only deepen the looming crisis. Instead, Greens want the Road Tax scrapped, moving the responsibility onto fuel duty, a windfall tax on excess oil company profits, and an increase in public transport investment. (more…)

A new paper entitled The Big Green View has been launched by the Green party in North Lancashire, covering Lancaster, Morecambe, Fleetwood and all places in-between. The paper covers green politics from a wide variety of different angles
- from the global to the local.

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The black poplar one of Britain’s rarest native trees, is being given a boost to its numbers down in a new 15-acre reserve next to Freemans Wood.
Thanks to an Environment Agency project, to be known as Freeman’s Pools, a number of black poplar trees have been planted. The saplings are genetic matches to a mature specimen at the nearby Freeman’s Wood County Biological Heritage Site. (more…)

A packed public meeting organised by residents action group It’s Our City on Tuesday 24th June 2008 in Lancaster Town Hall heard speakers deliver damning criticism of the revised planning application submitted by developers Centros for the shopping centre and carpark on the canal corridor area. (more…)

With the promenade developed all the way to from Morecambe to Heysham, the promotion of the district as a cycling town and more and more visitors arriving a new cycle hire business has launched itself opposite the recently reopened Midland Hotel. (more…)

There was a full cycle rack outside Morecambe town hall this week as councillors took part in national cycle to work day. At the invitation of the Green group a number of councillors from other parties joined the Greens in backing the districts cycle demonstration town team’s call for people to get on thier bikes and cycle to work.

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The way the decision to site a new mental health unit on Royal Albert fields in Lancaster was taken is to be looked into by Lancashire County Council’s health scrutiny committee. A task group is being set up to consider whether the site selection consultation by Lancashire Care Trust was properly carried out. (more…)