Community Local Elections Local Plan Paddock Wood Policies Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
29 April 2023 / 29 April 2023 by Geoff Mason
Trevor Bisdee writes ‘I’m really pleased that for the first time the Green Party is standing a candidate in every one of the sixteen Wards across the Borough, giving people who want to vote green the opportunity to do so. We offer people a different type of politics – a change that is increasingly recognised […]
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Local Elections Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
13 April 2023 / 13 April 2023 by Geoff Mason
Tunbridge Wells Green Party is proud to announce our candidates for the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council elections on May 4th. We’re standing in all 16 wards so anyone who wants to Vote Green can Vote Green. If you would like to support our campaign to help get our first Green Councillor elected onto TWBC, click […]
Climate Change Local Elections Policies Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
12 April 2023 / 17 April 2023 by Geoff Mason
Mike Calvert writes ‘climate breakdown is the most important challenge we will face in our lifetimes. It threatens our security and the very foundations of our society. Don’t take my word for it – David Attenborough warned recently: “If we continue on our current path, we will face the collapse of everything that gives us […]
Campaigning Community Local Elections
17 February 2023 / 17 February 2023 by Geoff Mason
With less than 3 months to go to the May local elections, this year you’ll need to show photo ID before you can vote. The Government insists that this is to prevent ‘personation’ or voter fraud and yet according to the Electoral Reform Society, there were only 33 cases of personation in 2019 which is […]
Boundary Commission Local Plan Planning Policies
6 January 2023 / 6 January 2023 by Geoff Mason
We hope everyone had a good Christmas – even if their water had to be trucked into Tesco’s carpark for collection… Water played a big part in shaping a year that most people would like to put behind them, with lack of it causing wildfires in the hottest summer since 1976, followed by winter weeks […]
Planning
17 December 2022 / 19 December 2022 by Geoff Mason
John Hurst writes 'the last fortnight has shown us two examples of the failure of successive Councils to plan positively for our town'
Policies
14 November 2022 / 17 February 2023 by Geoff Mason
While Liz Truss has been trying to cut taxes for the wealthiest, more and more people across the UK are resorting to foodbanks. Here in the town, we read in last week’s Times of Tunbridge Wells that the Nourish Community Foodbank is struggling to meet demand as rising energy bills and the cost of living […]
