Amanda Iremonger, Cheshire East Green Party Secretary
I’m delighted to announce that my friend and colleague John Knight, will be taking over the Green Party musings in this column for a while. John is a long standing campaigner in Macclesfield – you may have met him in the campaign to Save Danes Moss, for example.
Recently, John has been leading the latest local Green Party initiative to hear your views and push for action to address your concerns. We are still listening, so do get in touch.
Currently, 94% say that the council should be doing more to enable tenants to use renewable energy – a long-held view of John’s and he is pushing for tenants to get the same opportunity to install renewable energy (solar panels, heat pumps and so on) as home-owners.
And many of you have been asking for Macclesfield to be made safer for cyclists. We are building a campaign to call for this – asking the Council to provide protected cycle lanes, fix the pot holes, re-establish the national cycle route NR55 through the town centre and introduce 20mph as the limit in urban areas.
You can sign our petition here: http://change.org/MaccCyclingGreenParty. John is also leading a cycle protest on 7th June, save the date!
My next step is to find out more about the planned Cheshire and Warrington Mayoral Authority – we need to ensure that it brings real benefit to us locally. At the moment it’s the creation of three Labour-led authorities, and a Labour government. None of them are delivering what we need for Macclesfield, so I am not convinced we need more of the same. Are you? To get change, we need to make changes.
Do get in touch any time: welcome@cheshireeast.greenparty.org.uk, or come along to meet us: we and other Greens will be at Turquoise Sandwich Bar on Saturday 5th April between 10 and 12.