BaNES Green Group has warned that the Bath Movement Strategy risks becoming a "blame-management framework" unless the council spells out who is responsible for delivering its mode shift targets bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/greens-say...

Greens Say Bath Movement Strategy Needs A Delivery Plan, Not Just Targets

BaNES Green Group has warned that the Bath Movement Strategy risks becoming a "blame-management framework" unless the council spells out who is responsible for delivering its mode shift targets.

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Angry Bath and North East Somerset residents are staging a demonstration outside the offices of Wessex Water on Claverton Down Road at 3pm this Thursday, July 30th bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/residents-...

Greens object and are dismayed to learn that the Lib Dem-run administration is going to remove School Keep Clear markings on Darlington Road outside Bathwick St Mary Primary School, Bath bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/greens-hig...

Greens Highly Critical of Proposal to Remove School Keep Clear Signs

Greens object and are dismayed to learn that this Lib Dem-run administration is going to remove School Keep Clear markings on Darlington Road outside Bathwick St Mary Primary School, Bath.

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Why not become a member of the Green Party? Connect with local people who share your values and concerns & join a group of passionate people who are already working hard in your communities. Visit our website and join today! join.greenparty.org.uk

Major reconstruction work is being carried out on Manvers Street in Bath between May and November 2026 bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/greens-que...

Greens Question Whether Manvers Street Closure Properly Managed

Major reconstruction work is being carried out on Manvers Street in Bath between May and November 2026.

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BaNES Green Party strongly opposes the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice that was laid before Parliament on 21 May 2026. It is transphobic - let’s call it for what it is. bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/banes-gree...

BaNES Green Party Statement on the EHRC draft Code of Practice - May 2026

BaNES Green Party strongly opposes the EHRC’s draft Code of Practice that was laid before Parliament on 21 May 2026

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Councillor Heijltjes suggested having an additional PDS meeting for the local plan ahead of the Cabinet meeting in June in order to properly scrutinise the Local Plan open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Proper Scrutiny Process Needed for Local Plan, Say Greens

Councillor Heijltjes suggested having an additional PDS meeting for the local plan ahead of the Cabinet meeting in June in order to properly scrutinise the Local Plan

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Green ward councillors for Lambridge have received a number of concerns from residents relating to building work on Bailbrook Lane at the former Old Nursery Site bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/greens-fin...

Greens Finally Get Enforcement Action on Old Nursery Site on Bailbrook Lane, Bath

Ward councillors for Lambridge have received a number of concerns from residents relating to building work on Bailbrook Lane at the former Old Nursery Site

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Cllrs @clrjoannawright and @SaskiaHeijltjes explain why exiting and entering the NCR 4 on Beckford Road, Bath is challenging for cyclists bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/cllrs-joan...

Cllrs Joanna Wright and Saskia Heijltjes explain why exiting and entering the NCR 4 on Beckford Road, Bath is challenging for cyclists.

“This bit of road is one of the most challenging parts as a cyclist.

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B&NES Green councillors object to The University of Bath’s planning application for further student accommodation on its Claverton Down campus until better non-car transport options exist open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Everything #Reform do is to help the ultra-wealthy - they don't care about ordinary people. You can see this in everything they say. In this example: #Grenfell is tragic "but everyone dies in the end", so we shouldn't let improved safety stand in the way of house builders profits

Software requested by Greens will allow officers to improve knowledge of recipients’ position within the Council Tax Support Scheme to explore and review how to support the most vulnerable bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/greens-ach...

Greens Achieve Funding For Local Carers Lumbered With Higher Council Tax

Software requested by Greens will allow officers to improve knowledge of recipients’ position within the Council Tax Support Scheme to explore and review how to support the most vulnerable

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Every minister should read this from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: “The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash…the same factors that would have brought down the financial system….now threaten to bring down the food system”.

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out | George Monbiot

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Bath and North East Somerset Council has voted to support a new cross‑panel initiative aimed at improving opportunities for outdoor play and enhancing children's health and well being bathnesgreenparty.substack.com/p/bath-and-n...

Bath and North East Somerset Council Backs Green Party Motion to Boost Outdoor Play and Strengthen Community Belonging

Bath and North East Somerset Council has voted to support a new cross‑panel initiative aimed at improving opportunities for outdoor play and enhancing children's health and well being.

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Pro-war, pro-privatisation. Don't trust these people.. www.ft.com/content/be4b...

Farage’s Reform UK drops pledge to nationalise water and energy companies

Rightwing populist party is shifting back to ‘small state’ economic policies

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Bath and NE Somerset Green Party now has more than 1,200 members! Join the movement to make hope normal again - join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party's victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election is a clear win for the politics of hope and change over a campaign dominated by fear, smears and victim-blaming from Reform and Labour domtristram.substack.com/p/a-historic...

A Historic Breakthrough in Gorton and Denton

The Green Party's victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election is a clear win for the politics of hope and change over a campaign dominated by fear, smears and victim-blaming from Reform and Labour.

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“We need a better system to fund local services. We need a national wealth tax, taxing 1% of assets over £10 million which should then be used to better fund public services.” open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Greens Call For A Fairer Council tax

“I am all for wages going up, but Being our Best was intended to save Council Tax spend, instead it has increased costs and created strike action. Who is accountable for this, where is the scrutiny?”

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Parties exist to gain political power. Don’t be surprised they contest elections. I often hear ‘the Greens are splitting the vote!’, but that’s the political system *Labour have chosen*. Labour could end the threat of a Reform government right now if they adopt PR. (1/2)

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years. That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”. Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives. This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Today the UK government published a long‑awaited action plan on per‑ and poly‑ fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). It is alarming reading - domtristram.substack.com/p/pfas-why-t...

PFAS - Why the UK Must Act

Today the UK government published a long‑awaited action plan on per‑ and poly‑ fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). It is alarming reading.

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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

England’s most deprived areas are projected to get materially worse by the next general election unless investment and policy shift significantly open.substack.com/pub/domtrist...

England’s Most Deprived Areas Are Headed for Harder Times

England’s most deprived areas are projected to get materially worse by the next general election unless investment and policy shift significantly

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The ultra-wealthy and corporations are dictating what politicians in the old parties and Reform do. We need to make sure that policy is made in the interests of the people, not those with the most money open.substack.com/pub/domtrist...

How Wealth Concentration Is Steering Policy Away From the Many

Billionaires vs People

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The B&NES Liberal Democrat administration and the official Labour opposition together, at November’s Full Council meeting, discarded plans for a robust AI ethics policy that the BathNES Green Group proposed in its AI motion - open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Greens criticise “Self-serving” AI Motion After Key Ethics Points Dropped

The B&NES Liberal Democrat administration and the official Labour opposition together, at November’s Full Council meeting, discarded plans for a robust AI ethics policy proposed by Greens

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Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services. Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0. But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?" Make it make sense!

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Politics is in a vibes era. Nigel Farage and Zack Polanski are proof of that. But maybe Keir Starmer can take positivity from Ruben Amorim.

Despite decades of the Right, and now Labour, claiming that work is the route out of poverty, a significant number of families on low incomes, even those with a parent in work, are trapped in a cycle of hardship domtristram.substack.com/p/why-the-tw...

Why the two‑child benefit cap is a policy fault‑line in the UK’s fight against child poverty

Despite decades of the Right claiming that work is the route out of poverty, a significant number of families on low incomes, even those with a parent in work, are trapped in a cycle of hardship.

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Big news 💚 The Bath & North East Somerset Green Party has just passed 1,000 members, our highest ever. 🌿 This reflects the national surge in Green Party membership, now over 150,000. Huge thanks to everyone joining and supporting a fairer, greener future for BaNES! 🌍✨ #BaNESGreens #GreenParty

Today Bath is hosting 'A Vigil of Grief & Love': an 18-hour spoken memorial to honour the lives of Palestinian children killed in the ongoing war in Gaza. Among those taking part will be Green Party councillors Joanna Wright and Saskia Heijltjes open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Bath community gathers to remember children killed in Gaza

This Thursday, Bath will host A Vigil of Grief & Love: an 18-hour spoken memorial to honour the lives of Palestinian children killed in the ongoing war in Gaza.

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Bath Green Party councillors @saskiaheijltjes.bsky.social and @cllrjoannawright.bsky.social have expressed concern and disappointment following the recent update from Bath & North East Somerset Council on the Pulteney Estate Liveable Neighbourhood proposals open.substack.com/pub/bathnesg...

Lack of clarity and delays on Liveable Neighbourhoods leave residents in the dark

Bath Green Party councillors Saskia Heijltjes and Joanna Wright have today expressed concern and disappointment following the recent update from Bath & North East Somerset Council

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