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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
