Welcome to the monthly newsletter from your local Green Party. Including updates on our Councillors’ hard work, members’ campaigning, dates for your diary, and all things Green! Local newsA number of our members took part in the successful campaign to get the Broadford Bridge borehole extension refused. West Sussex County Council planning meeting listened to […]
Our Work with Chichester Welcomes Refugees
For the last six months activists from Chichester and Arun Green Party have been working with partner organisations to support refugees and asylum seekers who are being accommodated at the Chichester Park Hotel on the Westhampnett Road in Chichester. Reports started to circulate in late September 2023 that the Home Office had started loaning the […]
Watch the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) talks
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), Nature Opportunity or Planning Fig Leaf? Watch or listen to the Jan 24th 2024 talks on BNG held at the Friends Meeting House, Priory Road to find out what impact this new planning legislation will have. National housing targets are leading to urban development expanding deeper into the countryside. Government says […]
Protecting People and Plants from Pesticides
At the Chichester & Arun Green Party 2023 AGM on Thursday 16 November Josie Cohen from Pesticide Action Network gave an excellent talk on the egregious and pernicious effects of pesticides on our soils, rivers, seas, wildlife, crops and health. Those who missed it can watch Josie’s talk and a Q&A below. […]
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Parliamentary candidate hustings
On Thursday 16 November the Chichester & Arun Green Party met for the 2023 AGM, which included a hustings for our parliamentary candidates for the next general election for Chichester (Tim Young) and Bognor & Littlehampton (Carol Birch). For those members who couldn’t make it in person or virtually on the night you can watch […]
AGM & Pesticides Action Network talk
The Chichester & Arun Green Party 2023 AGM will be held at Murrells Hall, Barnham Community Centre on Thursday 16 November. The formal business of the AGM (for members only) will take place from 6.30pm to 7pm. This will include voting in our new officers for 2023/24. Could you share some of your skills with […]
Green councillor supports evicted residents
At the end of August 2023, the residents of a group of properties in Freeman Close, just off Eastergate Lane in Walberton, were given three months’ notice before eviction by Home Farm Trust. This cluster of small bungalows is home to a community of 23 residents with mixed and varied needs, some of whom have […]
Arundel ‘Chord’ would be transformational, local Greens tell Southern
Chichester & Arun Green Party has responded to Southern’s West Coastway consultation to express disappointment that the proposed changes are a further erosion of local rail services and direct train travel through West Sussex. [1] Equally disappointing is that once again, despite overwhelming public and political support, the provision of a 500-metre ‘Arundel Chord’ addition […]
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Green Talk: Taking legal action for the environment
How worried are you about government policies? Policies on climate change, air quality, water quality, sewage discharges, housing policies, road building, airport expansion, walking and cycling… the list goes on. How can we get government policies changed? For some it is to protest, others sign petitions, some work locally to at least get some local […]
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Green minds meet at August social
On Monday 21 August, Chichester & Arun Green Party hosted a Green Social for members and apolitical but green-minded people alike at Reina Kitchen in Chichester. It was a lovely venue for a Green gathering. With our own space reserved upstairs, dedicated service and a lovely menu to choose from, people came from Bognor, Rustington, […]
