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Council backs Green Party Motion supporting renters in cold, damp homes

At the Bedford Borough Council meeting on Wednesday, a Green Party motion highlighting unaffordable energy bills and cold, damp homes for private tenants was passed with cross party support. It called for pressure on the Government to restore the recently-scrapped requirement for landlords to ensure their properties’ Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)  have a minimum ‘C’ […]

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Cade Sibley Mid Bedfordshire Parliamentary Candidate

Luton and Bedfordshire Green Party Executive Committee are proud to announce Cade Sibley as the Green Party candidate for Mid Bedfordshire. Cade joined the Green Party in 2021. The Party is delighted that as a fairly new member  Cade was willing to jump in at the deep end and put himself forward for this role. […]

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Central Bedfordshire Green Party Election Candidates

Central Bedfordshire Green Party would like to present the members and friends standing at the local elections for us on the 4 May. Maybe May the Forth will be with us this year. Susan has lived in Ampthill for 17 years and has served as an Ampthill Town Councillor since 2019. She is a founder […]

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Bedford Green Party Election Candidates

Bedford Green Party would like to present the members and friends standing at the local elections for us on the 4 May. Maybe May the Forth will be with us this year. Adrian has been talking to residents of Biddenham for over a year now and been chasing the Council,developers, bus companies and health commissioners […]

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Adrian Spurrell elected as Bedford Mayoral Candidate

Adrian Spurrell Canvassing in Biddenham in the snow

Adrian Spurrell has been elected to represent Bedford Green Party at the Bedford Borough Council mayoral elections for the second time. He is so dedicated to the Green Party winning in public elections that he even goes out canvessing in the snow (as shown in the main picture). Adrian Spurrell canvassing in Biddenham in the […]

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 Bedford Borough Council – Fair Tax

GREEN COUNCILLORS HELP BEDFORD BECOME ‘FAIR TAX’ COUNCIL IN THE UK In October Bedford Borough Council joined 33 other local authorities across the UK, including Peterborough and Norwich in the East of England in becoming a Fair Tax Council. The Councils for Fair Tax Declaration commits cities, towns and districts to do the right thing […]

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Good News for Windsor Drive Open Space, Houghton Regis.

Image Catherine Aganoglu

On 16 August The Friends of Windsor Drive Open Space committee received a letter from Julie Ogley, Director of Social Care, Health and Housing for Central Bedfordshire Council (CBC), advising that ‘Central Bedfordshire Council will not be progressing any further works on the proposed development of affordable housing on Windsor Drive at this time’. The […]

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‘Bedford Greens highlight useful sources of help in the cost of living/low wage crisis’

Paul Edmonds on the Embankment

We are in the midst of an ever-deepening cost of living crisis. Many of us will be feeling overwhelmed by the spiralling prices of many of life’s essentials. This is coupled with a scandalous lack of action or direction from central government. Energy prices in particular are set to wreak havoc throughout the public and […]

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