Events Local issues
1st September 2022 / 4th November 2022 by Angela
By Phil Shotton There was a good turnout at the Post Office picket line at Wilfred Road sorting office on Wednesday 31 August. Thanet Green Party had a rotating presence, […]
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Councillors Local issues
28th June 2022 / 28th June 2022 by Angela
Our Chair Mike Garner was interviewed by Kent Online about rising sea levels. Our Central Harbour Councillor Becky Wing was in the news, challenging a decision by Sanctuary Housing […]
Councillors Events Local issues
25th April 2022 / 25th April 2022 by Angela
Your Green Councillors have been busy in recent weeks supporting community activities in their own wards and across Thanet. These have included: Tree planting at Jackey Bakers Field Thanet District […]
Campaigns Elections
6th April 2022 / 6th April 2022 by Angela
The Green Party's co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay launched our local election campaign by unveiling proposals on lowering energy bills and making homes greener and more energy efficient. In […]
24th March 2022 / 24th March 2022 by Angela
Press Statement from elected Kent Greens Kent Greens are appalled by the callous behaviour of P&O Ferries across the UK, and specifically in Dover where most of the 800 national […]
Campaigns Councillors Events Local issues
21st March 2022 / 21st March 2022 by Angela
Green Councillor Tricia Austin joining the Granville Theatre protest on 15 March 2022. Photo by Steve Collis, Isle of Thanet News, used with permission. The Thanet community was out in […]
Blog Local issues
8th March 2022 / 4th November 2022 by Angela
What we believe Thanet Greens recognise that we are in a climate and ecological emergency. Every decision we make should contribute to dealing with it. Meeting local need: We recognise […]
Councillors Elections
1st March 2022 / 1st March 2022 by Angela
After due consideration, Thanet Green Party has decided not to stand a candidate in the forthcoming TDC by-election in Nethercourt. There are several reasons for our decision, but fundamentally we […]
Blog
21st February 2022 / 21st February 2022 by Angela
Thanet Green Party has called on Councillor Ash Ashbee, Leader of Thanet District Council, to halt the Local Plan Review process over concerns about housing numbers. However, we have also […]
Blog Councillors
4th February 2022 / 4th February 2022 by Angela
Thanet Green Party believes there is a growing strength of feeling across Thanet to halt plans to include even more houses in the Local Plan on top of the already […]
12th November 2021 / 12th November 2021 by Angela
Our wonderful candidate Abi Smith was elected to be the new Green district councillor for the Thanet Villages in the by-election on 11 November. Abi took 60% of the poll […]
15th October 2021 / 15th October 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party has suspended campaigning for the local by-election in the Thanet Villages ward over the weekend as a mark of respect, following the shocking murder of Southend MP […]
6th October 2021 / 6th October 2021 by Angela
Abi is the fantastic candidate Thanet Green Part is putting forward in the by-election for the councillor seat recently vacated by Green Councillor Trevor Roper. Here is her candidate statement: […]
Campaigns Events
3rd October 2021 / 3rd October 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party has played a lead role in the partnership that has established Thanet’s first Big Green Week. National Green Week was at the end of September, but many […]
Events
1st October 2021 / 6th October 2021 by Angela
During a recent Biofuelwatch presentation with presenters live from Latvia, North Carolina and British Columbia they all made clear how the UK’s appetite for biomass combustion for electricity, is destroying […]
Campaigns
19th September 2021 / 19th September 2021 by Angela
Thanet Greens are among 19 Thanet Community Groups who have signed an open letter with Tracey Emin CBE RA asking for a U-turn on the imminent Universal Credit reduction given […]
Councillors
18th September 2021 / 19th September 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party Councillors today expressed their support for Council Leader Cllr Ash Ashbee’s decision to call for help from the Secretary of State to ‘regularise the governance of Thanet […]
11th September 2021 / 28th October 2022 by Angela
This is a follow-up from Abi Smith - our Thanet Green Party representative for Birchington. We hope you found the Villages Summer Newsletter useful. We managed to distribute it widely […]
9th September 2021 / 16th September 2021 by Angela
We urgently need a wellbeing economy – one designed with the purpose of serving the wellbeing of people and the planet first and foremost. An economy that will deliver social […]
Campaigns Councillors
9th September 2021 / 9th September 2021 by Angela
Green Councillors Becky Wing and Tricia Austin, with their Central Harbour colleague Raushan Ara, have launched a simple practical scheme to help residents without access to kerbside services recycle their […]
Text and video by Garry Saunders The Teletubbie Tidal Wave at the Boating Pool This year's Ramsgate Festival of Sound was a great success, bringing people from the town but […]
By Mike Garner, Thanet District Councillor for St Peters and Town Councillor for Broadstairs As I’m sure you are all aware, Southern Water have been responsible for a number of […]
23rd August 2021 by Angela
Trevor says: "It’s been an honour to serve the Villages." Popular and hardworking Thanet Villages Green Councillor Trevor Roper has sadly decided to resign, after finding himself stuck in France […]
6th August 2021 / 6th August 2021 by Angela
Thanet Green Party Councillors have expressed their puzzlement at a ‘vicious’ attack on one of their number by local blogger Ian Driver, which they describe as "distorted, inaccurate and based […]