The annual Green Party Christmas Fair will take place on Saturday 29th November.
At the Lancaster Friends Meeting House. Meeting House Lane Lancaster. 10am - 4pm.
All the usual festive fare;
Stalls / Cafe / Music …
Entry 40p (Kids Free)
University Green Councillors Morgwn Trolinger and Ian McCulloch have joined the Students’ Unions of Lancaster University and University of Cumbria in calling for a halt to the Carnage UK organised pub crawl due to take place in town next week.
Councillor Trolinger said “This event has been cancelled in Preston, Blackpool and Bolton due to health and safety risks and public safety issues. Pubs and clubs have a responsibility to promote responsible drinking and I don’t see how they are doing that by taking part in this event.” The event called ‘Dirty Porn Star Fancy Dress’, organised by a private company called Carnage UK and is set to take place in Lancaster on the 20th November 2008.
Lancaster City Council owns 12 allotment sites throughout the district, which are currently leased to Allotment Associations for a market rent. The 10 year leases will expire in April 2009, so the City Council is taking the opportunity to review whether there may be a better way of managing allotments in future. An Allotments Task Group report in 2004 recommended that allotments should be recognised as an essential community resource rather than simply as property assets. Read the rest of this entry »
Ridge Lane Bridge has been given a new lease of life through a design carried out by young people from Lancaster Central High School (LCHS) and the Ridge Community Centre. The underside of the bridge now sports a large public art mural which has transformed the local environment. The project, which was funded by Lancaster Central High School, has been brought together through a team effort involving the Ridge Community Centre, LCHS and Bulk Green Party, as well as British Water Board, County Highways and the City Council. Read the rest of this entry »
Following an extraordinary meeting of all political group leaders on Lancaster City Council on Friday 24th Oct to discuss the impacts of the recession on City Council services Green Group leader Chris Coates said;
“The situation is very bleak. Not only might we have lost £6 million in Icelandic banks, but the recession could undermine any number of council projects which could leave us with a real budget crisis on our hands next year.” Read the rest of this entry »
Following a marathon two day planning meeting the Greens were the only party to oppose the controversial shopping Centre being proposed by developers Centros for the Canal Corridor area. Following the vote Green group leader Cllr Chris Coates said “ I am deeply disappointed by the decision. Councillors from other parties have today voted to run down the existing City Centre, to tear down historic buildings and add yet more traffic to an already congested road system. This is a black day for Lancaster.” Read the rest of this entry »
SAVE Britain’s Heritage, the national group that campaigns to protect buildings at risk, have weighed in to the debate over the redevelopment of Lancasters Canal Corridor. They say “SAVE challenges Lancaster City Council not to put short-term economic gain ahead of long-term sustainability. If the city’s aspirations as the ‘Bath of the north’ are to be met then a sensitive, conservation led approach to new development must be adopted. This insensitive scheme would blight the city, damage its special character and endanger its long-term economic future. It must be abandoned.”
The group have created a slideshow - A Lament for Lancaster.
That can be viewed on the SAVE Britain’s Heritage website.
SAVE have put in an official objection to the scheme which will be heard by the local planning committee at a special two day hearing on the 13th & 14th of October.
Plans for a huge 2500 inmate ‘Titan’ prison in Lancaster look to have come to nothing. The Green Party withdrew a motion at last weeks meeting of the City Council which would have opposed the siting of a new mega prison in the Distirct because it was revealed that the consultants looking for a site had written to the council and told them that there wasn’t a site big enough in Lancaster. Read the rest of this entry »
Lancaster City Council is to place an ‘Article 4 Directive’ on the canal basin at Glasson Dock. This will protect the basin from being developed peicemeal by British Waterways and require that all works on the Marina will have to submit a planning application. Green County Cllr Chris Coates said “This is what local people have been calling for all along. Its not that everyone is opposed to the basin being redeveloped, it was just the way that BWB Marinas had gone about it without wanting to apply for planning permission that angered everyone.”
PUPILS returning to school today across Lancashire will find only free range eggs on the dinner time menu. From the start of the school year, Lancashire’s catering staff will be cooking up their usual treats using only free range eggs. The decision will affect more than half a million eggs each year.
A leaflet entitled – The Heroin Trade; A crime against humanity has been pushed through doors around Halton. The leaflet purports to be from a group called the Preston Pals, but it is believed that members of the far-right British National Party (the BNP) have taken over the veteran’s organisation. In it Muslims are blamed for the heroin trade, and it talks of an ‘Islamic invasion’ and claims that heroin was ‘almost impossible to find’ in Britain before Muslims arrived here. Read the rest of this entry »
