High Peak Green Party

In 2007, Professor David King, then chief scientific advisor to the UK government stated. Avoiding dangerous climate change is impossible – dangerous climate change is already here. The question is, can we avoid catastrophic climate change? Year after year, opportunities have been lost and now we see extreme weather events increasing dramatically in our own temperate land. On July 25th, we were sweltering in record temperatures and just a week later, torrential rain brought

“We envision a country underpinned by well-funded, locally-led public services providing care and support for all - a society rooted in kindness.” Green Party Political Programme Currently, care and support seem horribly lacking for some of the most vulnerable in our society, the homeless. Reports on the rise in homelessness tend to focus on larger towns and cities, but homelessness is not confined to London or Manchester. There are also people with nowhere to live in smaller

Almost 20% of families in High Peak are living in accommodation that does not suit their needs and more than 25% are living in problem housing. Living in substandard housing causes health problems that put an extra burden on an already overstretched NHS. In 2008, High Peak Borough Council identified the need to provide 329 new affordable homes per year, but since then an average of less than 30 affordable homes per year have been built. There’s a lack of affordable housing th

Housing was supposedly the centrepiece of this week's budget with the homelessness crisis deepening every day. Unfortunately, the measures announced barely scratch the surface of the problem - and some of the measures may make the situation worse. Yes, we can welcome moves to combat the practices of using homes as a money store that has led to many homes deliberately left empty and of land-banking where land with planning permission is traded multiple times, often over long p