Worcester City Council is now a Fair Tax Council. Following a proposal by Cllr Karen Lewing, we are pleased to announce that Worcester City Council has achieved Fair Tax Council status. This commits the council to lead by example on our own tax conduct and demand to know who owns and profits from businesses the […]
A plan to bring in an entry fee for the Worcester Show has now been scrapped and visitors will instead be asked to donate. Worcester City Council had been pushing ahead with introducing a £2 entry fee for the family-friendly and currently free Worcester Show as one way of helping with its worrying budget issues […]
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‘A fresh start’ and a ‘green vision’ for Worcester is at the heart of the messages from the city’s new joint Labour and Green Party leadership. The two parties were put together at Worcester City Council’s annual meeting on Tuesday 16th May. Greens welcomed the renewed commitment to a joint leader for the council and […]
You can follow Louis Stephen’s mayoral blog via the link below. Every week Louis will write about what he has been up to as Mayor of Worcester. Mayor of Worcester blog. […]
The city’s mayor has vowed to keep his carbon footprint as small as possible this year by using his bike to cycle to events. Councillor Louis Stephen, elected the city’s first Green mayor earlier this month, promised to make most of the journeys during his 12-month stint as mayor using two wheels. Louis said he […]
Worcester City Council has appointed joint leaders for the first time, despite one of the parties involved not initially supporting the approach. Lynn Denham (Lab) and Marjory Bissett (Green) took up the roles this week. Their parties are now the two largest on the council, which is under no overall control. Cllr Bissett told LGC […]
The city will have its first Green mayor following a vote by councillors. Cllr Stephen, who takes over from long-standing Labour councillor Adrian Gregson who served has served as mayor for what turned out to be a historic 12 months for the country, said it was “fantastic” that the appointment of the first Green mayor […]
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The Great British Spring Clean is back, and this year Worcester Green Party is leading the initiative. Hannah Cooper, Cllr Karen Lewing and Cllr Matt Jenkins have teamed up to coordinate a community clean-up event to remove litter from the streets of the Arboretum. The event takes place on Sunday 2nd April from 14:30-16:00, meeting at […]
Green Party councillors in Worcester say the Government’s bus plans don’t go far enough. Transport secretary Mark Harper announced £155 million worth of support last month, to cap bus fares at £2 and help maintain services. But the Greens have launched their own ‘A One Pound Fare to Take You There’ policy, which would reduce […]
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On Tuesday 21st February, Worcester City Council unanimously agreed to adopt a parental leave policy for councillors as there is currently no legal right to parental leave of any kind for people in elected public office. Green Councillor Marjory Bisset proposed that the council should have a parental leave policy after she witnessed councillors struggling […]
