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6th November 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Julia Hilton reported on the work she is doing to support local residents in Old Town Hastings and Roddy Crockett from Sustrans gave a presentation and workshop on how we change priorities on our streets. It was great to see both local Labour and Conservative councillors turning up to hear Roddy Crockett from Sustrans. The […]
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31st October 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Keen to encourage local people to get involved in decision-making about transport choices, Sustrans, the walking and cycling charity, has arranged a meeting to discuss these issues on Saturday 6 November. Julia Hilton, Green Party councillor for Old Hastings and Tressell, explains the background. Hastings has one of the lowest percentages of car ownership in […]
21st October 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
On 21 October 2021, Julia Hilton was a panelist on the ITV meridian politics show The Last Word. Panelists were asked ‘who should foot the bill for climate change?’. Cllr Julia Hilton said there will be costs, but unless those costs are addressed soon, they’ll become all the more significant if we postpone the awkward decisions.
16th October 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Julia proposed a motion calling for the government to introduce a UK wide Carbon Tax combined with a citizens Carbon Dividend to make polluters pay. This was seconded by Councillor Heather Bishop and supported by Labour councillors but not the Conservatives. The motion ‘Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere continue to rise despite international agreements. Whilst targets […]
12th October 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
The Greens proposed a motion calling on East Sussex County Council (ESCC) to support the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill(CEE). This follows a u-turn by the Tories at the last minute, having said they would support the motion. A last minute amendment torpedoes support for the CEE bill after a ‘climate fudge’ cake was delivered to […]
17th August 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Julia spoke at the Clean Water Action Group protest on 16 August. Read her speech below. As we know the disgraceful record of Southern Water over many years makes for grim reading and as we can see by the turn out today, people have had enough of water companies putting private profit before clean water […]
8th August 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
On August 8th 2021, over fifty people gathered at SeaChange’s North Queensway site to say no to their business park plans. Seachange’s proposals would damage the precious nature reserve at Marline Woods. Video link here.
12th July 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Press release Hastings and Rye Green Party [1] Monday 12 July 2021 Contact: 07565 967250 Image available: https://tinyurl.com/x225apxx. Greens protest North Queensway business park HASTINGS GREENS CALL FOR FULL INVESTIGATION OF SEACHANGE SUSSEX Regeneration company has ‘utterly failed on its own terms’, says councillor, as party calls for North Queensway planning application to be refused […]
2nd July 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Hastings Green Party has announced that it is opposing the planning application submitted by SeaChange Sussex for a new business park on its site at North Queensway. The site is right next to Marline Valley nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Natural England has said that it has ‘considerable concerns’ about the […]
10th May 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
In a historic first, Hastings Green Party’s candidate Julia Hilton has won a seat on both Hastings Borough Council (Old Hastings ward) and East Sussex County Council (Old Hastings and Tressell ward). Julia won by a landslide in the Borough election, with a total of 1032 votes. This was 52% of the vote, and more […]
