Douglas Johnson

Lock-down should not mean watering down democracy

30th April 2020

Green councillor Douglas Johnson commented after Labour and LibDem councillors voted for more decision-making to be made by officers, not elected councillors, under emergency arrangements.

Sheffield Townhall

Sheffield Council must pay grants out to small businesses urgently

21st April 2020

New figures show that Sheffield lags behind other Yorkshire authorities when it comes to paying out grant funding to businesses in the lockdown.

Cllrs Paul Turpin and Douglas Johnson

Sheffield Greens call for the government to guarantee investment in South Yorkshire after Brexit

12th March 2020

Green Councillors have raised questions about replacing lost EU funding after Brexit

Sheffield Green Party Councillors

Sheffield Green Party Table Amendments to Council Budget

3rd March 2020

Sheffield’s Green Party councillors have tabled a series of amendments to the administration’s annual budget.

Sheffield Green Party Councillors

Green Party proposals to February’s Council

4th February 2020

Green Party councillors have submitted a raft of proposals to the full meeting of Sheffield City Council in February

Douglas Johnson

Greens welcome e-bikes to make roads safer from dangerous parking

22nd January 2020

A Green Party suggestion to make roads and pavements safer from illegal parking is taking off, as a trial of e-bikes is being supplied to parking enforcement officers.

Cllr Ruth Mersereau

Green councillor removed from committee for opposing Labour’s job cuts

20th December 2019

A councillor has been removed from a council committee for supporting trade unions against job cuts being driven by Sheffield’s Labour Administration.

Volunteer planters

#GoGoGreen – Green Wall planting at Hunter’s Bar Infant School

12th November 2019

On 4th November 2019 Hunter’s Bar Infant School celebrated the launch of their Green Wall. It’s a pollution-busting wall of…

Sheffield Green Party Councillors

Green policy actions will make Sheffield better

29th October 2019

Sheffield’s Green councillors are proposing a raft of policies to Sheffield City Council, to make the city a better place to live.

Douglas Johnson

Greens call for Climate Emergency Committee

18th October 2019

Ahead of the Scrutiny committee discussing changes to council governance, Green Councillors are calling for the climate emergency to be placed at the heart of decision-making

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