Next May we have a real chance to elect a new, and more representative, generation of councillors to Reigate & Banstead Council, including some new Green ones!
All 45 councillors will be elected or re-elected on the same day, following changes to the ward boundaries.
We are looking for people to stand as Green candidates, to campaign to be elected and then to represent their communities, champion Green values, and help scrutinise the Conservative Council’s policies and hold them to account.
On 6 August 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, causing massive loss of life, hideous injuries, huge destruction of buildings, and genetic damage which lasts to this day. Three days later, on 9 August, a different type of nuclear bomb was exploded over the city of Nagasaki, also killing tens of thousands of people.
Every year these atrocities are commemorated around the world, and we commit ourselves to ensure that this is never done again.
We’re celebrating the election of our first councillor in Earlswood & Whitebushes Ward.
Hal Brown was elected, unseating the Conservative incumbent after a close fight. Hal is a nurse at East Surrey Hospital and has a young family.
We are fielding nine candidates in the local elections on 3 May. Find out who’s standing in your area here.
Please support your Green candidate! If you would like to deliver leaflets, or help on polling day, please email info@eastsurreygp.org.uk.
A giant reproduction of the iconic CND logo will visit Reigate’s Priory Park on Sunday 15th April. The installation will be sited near the park’s cafe as part of a UK-wide tour to mark the 60th anniversary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Peace on earth, goodwill to all people!
Local peace campaigners will be in Redhill town centre tomorrow, celebrating the award of the Nobel Peace prize for 2017 to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons “for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of nuclear weapons and for its ground-breaking efforts to achieve a treaty-based prohibition of such weapons“. Read More
Join us on Friday 6 October for a party at Reigate’s liveliest new venue, The Yard at Reigate Station. This is a fabulously atmospheric and quirky new venue just ONE MINUTE from Reigate station.
There will be live music from Ian Machecek and Rebecca Riedtmann. You can buy drinks at the cash bar – and feel free to bring your own food.*
This is a chance to have fun, thank everyone who has helped with our campaigns this year, and to raise some funds to continue working for a Greener and Fairer East Surrey.
When: 7.30-11pm, Friday 6 October 2017
Where: The Yard, 3a Holmesdale Road, Reigate, RH2 9QN
Tickets: £5 on the door or book via Eventbrite and secure your place
*There are plenty of excellent takeaways in Reigate – including a fish and chip shop and Chinese restaurant very nearby. For vegans, Monsoon in Woodhatch deliver and are happy to prepare vegan options and Pizza Express now has a vegan cheese available.
Tandridge District Council is consulting on possible locations for a ‘large scale development based on garden village principles’.
They are looking at four possible locations:
All these sites are Green Belt and so are currently protected from development.
On Sunday 6th August there will also be a 15-minute vigil at Shaw’s Corner War Memorial, Redhill,starting at 11.30am. Please join us.
David Hilder of Reigate and Redhill Peace Group explains why.
Sunday 6th August, is the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Two days later Nagasaki was the target. These remain the only time nuclear weapons have ever been used. 300,000 were killed in this attack and people today are still suffering as a result of the bombing.
Surrey Green Party is concerned at the flood of oil and gas drilling applications being dealt with by statutory bodies across Surrey.
“The industrialisation of the Weald promised by the oil and gas industry is under way,” said Green Councillor Jonathan Essex.
“This will put a huge strain on our already pressurised regulatory bodies, and on our local communities who have to deal with the potential impacts.”
