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Enfield Green Party is delighted to confirm that we wholeheartedly endorse and support the Better Streets for Enfield 2018 Council Election campaign pledges.
Better Streets for Enfield calls on all local parties to commit to supporting the health and happiness of all residents by creating people-friendly streets in Enfield – where traffic is reduced, where people have priority over traffic, and where walking, cycling and public transport are safe, attractive options for everyone. We ask you to commit to:
- Completing the work of Cycle Enfield, to allow all-age, all-ability cycling throughout the borough
- Creating low-traffic neighbourhoods, to reduce traffic speed and volume where people live
- Submitting a high-quality and safe, “Liveable Neighbourhood” bid, based in an area with high potential for walking and cycling, that provides big wins for both and that takes major steps to prioritise people walking and cycling over private cars in the area during the course of your term.
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Protecting youth services that reduce knife crime
Between 2012 and 2017, council funding for youth services has been cut by 60% in Enfield, decreasing by over £2 million. Enfield Green Party would fight to reverse these cuts, ensuring more youth centres and services to keep children and young people safe. We would seek to tackle the causes and culture of knife crime, as has been done successfully in Scotland
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For years, residents all over Enfield have suffered from noise, congestion and air pollution due to too much through traffic. Enfield Green Party believes that streets are for people, not traffic. The space has to be shared but on residential streets residents should come first. Across Enfield, we are campaigning for measures which cut traffic, reduce air pollution, and which make our streets safer, cleaner and greener. We support the use of innovative traffic calming measures, which stop streets becoming ‘rat runs’. We favour low speed limits…
We are campaigning for Western Bowes to become a Low Traffic Neighbourhood. New road features would allow cyclists and pedestrians, but not cars and other motor vehicles, to pass through these residential streets. This approach has been used very successfully in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, where it has civilised the streets and reduced total traffic.
Vote for Enfield Green Party in the May local elections and we will continue to campaign for the establishment of more liveable streets for all of Enfield. The measures we propose would benefit the whole of Enfield, setting an example of a transport policy that puts people first.
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The Green Party is the only party who believe that every person, in this and future generations, should be entitled to basic material security as of right.
For people who fall on hard times, we believe the right to rent = people facing difficulties should have the right to rent their home as council housing. This includes all people!
Green Party Policies on Energy are as much about power and tackling fuel poverty than about climate change. Any new houses built or re-built should be to passivhaus standard, which is significantly better than the so called zero carbon standard that was in the London plan and not kept to and it is the full time job of Green Party Assembly Members, Sian and Caroline, to hold the Mayor of London to account.
Greens in Government would:
- Provide suitable local homes to unaccompanied children fleeing Syria, Iraq etc. both through the council and through civil society groups.
- Stronger protections are needed for agricultural land, greenbelt and urban green spaces. Landowners should be forced to go ahead with planned development on derelict urban sites
- Councils should focus on providing affordable housing that meets local needs and they should be required to bring empty properties back into use, stop demolishing existing homes
- Housing should be built to high environmental standards, including insulation, renewable energy, rainwater recycling and appropriate materials
- Local services, job opportunities and good public transport links should be required with all new developments.