Eastville

The Green Party candidate for Eastville for the City Council Elections to be held on Thursday 5th May 2011 is Josie McLellan.

In the last election in 2009, Glenn Vowles got 15% of the vote for the Greens. He was active in protecting and enhancing Eastville’s green spaces – having been heavily involved in the (ongoing) campaign to prevent the ‘cycle house’ development encroaching onto the Bristol to Bath Railway Path, opposing the sell off and/or leasing of publicly owned land there, and having presented a petition to the council opposing their policy of flogging parks and green spaces.

Glenn also pressured for increased safety, and reduced air pollution and noise nuisance from roads, especially the busiest roads like those leading to the M32 (and the motorway itself) eg through speed reduction, having put proposals to council consultations on noise and walking.

In Eastville, the Greens have worked to:

• Get safe residential roads, with a 20mph limit, to protect our kids. This would help in creating the much better cycling and pedestrian provision we need.
• Achieve quality learning for all children - no to large, impersonal education factories. Education for sustainable living should be a central feature.
• Encourage and support home and allotment grown food, widen fresh, local, healthy, organic and ethical food availability
• Protect, enhance and if possible increase Bristol’s open, green, natural spaces – no to inappropriate developments.
• Retain and improve locally available facilities, services, and jobs, giving local people and communities the biggest say over them
• Put people before profit - no to the privatisation of local/public services
• Promote local energy saving and the renewable micro-generation of energy
• Create a Transport Authority for Greater Bristol, sort out Bristol’s buses/trains – we need far better and cheaper public transport
• Get much more investment in cutting people’s fuel bills and in local public transport - cut Bristol’s carbon emissions significantly each year and generate loads of local jobs.
• Achieve higher land, air, water and environmental quality.
• Bring abandoned land and buildings quickly into good use, stop ‘grot spots’ growing
• Get government, councils, businesses and individuals acting on their responsibility to be environmentally-friendly
• Achieve respect for and the enabling of broad based public participation in community life (see the list of 21 suggestions he has submitted to Bristol City Council’s Sustainable Communities Act process)

Eastville ward is in Bristol East parliamentary constituency and is part of Bristol North Green Party.   Email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  for details of members' meetings.

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