Elect Greens to fight for:
Could you display a poster in your window to show your neighbours and passers-by that you are voting Green?
You can download an A4 poster to print at home using the links below.
If you have a big window, or are in a prominent location, and would like a poster, please get in touch and we will bring you one if we can.
On 2 May 2019, there will be local elections in Tandridge.
We have 3 candidates standing this year. If there is a Green standing in your ward – please display a Vote Green poster in your window.
And don’t forget to vote for them on 2nd May!
On 2 May 2019, the whole of Reigate & Banstead Borough Council is up for re-election, following ward boundary changes.
We have 18 candidates standing in 12 wards. Your poll card will tell you which ward you are in and where your polling station is.
If you’ve got a Green standing where you live, please put a poster in your window to show your support.
Green Councillor Jonathan Essex presented evidence about the Surrey earthquakes to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Impact of Shale Gas – a group of MPs with an interest in in shale gas exploration and extraction in the UK and abroad – yesterday.
There have been 28 quakes in Surrey since 1 April 2018, in an area where none had been previously recorded. The epicentre is on a fault only three kilometres from the active drill site at Horse Hill.
Cllr Jonathan Essex and Surrey Green Party submitted a response to Gatwick Airport’s Master Plan consultation, which closed yesterday.
The Master Plan which includes a proposal to convert Gatwick’s Emergency Runway into a fully active second runway, with a possible 80,000 additional flights a year – and to safeguard land for a brand new runway to the south of the airport.
The plans are based on three highly misleading claims:
How do you think Surrey County Council should invest its money?
Surrey is consulting on proposed changes to some of its vital services:
If you have views on these, please share them with the Council by 4 January 2019.
You can find the consultation documents here: surreycc.gov.uk/consultations
Gatwick Airport has published a Five Year Master Plan, which includes a proposal to convert its Emergency Runway into a fully active second runway, with a possible 80,000 additional flights a year.
This would increase the problems already being experienced by local communities – noise, air pollution and excessive road traffic – not to mention being a disaster for the climate. Only this month, the world’s leading climate scientists gave the starkest warning yet that we need to make a rapid transition to the post-fossil-fuel age if we are to keep global warming below 1.5C. Increasing flights makes no sense in this context.
We’ve arranged a photo call on Tuesday 20 October, with Keith Taylor MEP and the Gatwick Area Conservation Campaign (GACC), to shine a light on Gatwick’s expansion ambitions and encourage people to take part in the consultation about them.
It’s at 12.30 at Old Brighton Road, Lowfield Heath, Crawley, RH11 0PR.
If you’re free on Tuesday, please come along.
Get in touch if you’d like a lift or can offer one: info@eastsurreygp.org.uk
The East Surrey Greens are joining the People’s Vote March for the future in London on Saturday 20th October. Would you like to join us?
This is an opportunity to join a friendly group of us as we say to the government that we think that there should be a People’s vote and a say on the final Brexit deal.
Whether you voted leave or remain, and whatever your political persuasion, you are welcome to join us to make the case for a People’s Vote.
We are planning to meet on Platform 2 at Redhill Station around 10.20am, tp catch the 10.41 train to Victoria, ready to assemble with the march on Park Lane from 12 noon. We will have Green flags/posters for identification.
For more information about the march, check out their website:
https://www.peoples-vote.uk/march
Horse Hill Developments Ltd, the company drilling for oil near Horley, have published expansion plans which, if allowed, would make Horse Hill the UK’s second largest onshore producing site on current figures.
They want to drill five more wells – giving a total of seven (one for waste water re-injection) – and produce more than 500 tonnes of oil a day.
So far they have submitted an Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Request, which you can read on the Horse Hill Developments Ltd website.
