Thursday 4 May 2023
Our candidates:
Remember, you have 3 votes for the North Lincs Council (Barton Ward) election. Please use them for our 3 green candidates.
You also have up to 12 votes for the Barton Town Council election. You do not need to use all of them, but please use 3 votes for our same 3 green candidates.
BACK YOUR GREEN TEAM ON MAY 4TH
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Neil Jacques
Neil is a Town Councillor, Chair of Environment Committee, Vice-Chair of Barton Civic Society, Secretary of the Allotment Society and heavily involved with the Neighbourhood Plan. Coordinates Bartonian delivery volunteers.
Neil says "We are all really looking forward to be able to have the chance to represent Barton on North Lincs Council. We have worked hard on the Town Council for a better local environment and it would be an honour to do the same on North Lincs. Download the election leaflet
Carol Thornton
Carol is a Town Councillor and a Member of the Environment Committee. She represents the town on the Community Rail Partnership and Environment Agency Alleviation Group, and is a Trustee of the Ted Lewis Group and Member of St Mary's Parochial Church Council, as well as a volunteer at Wilderspin School Museum.
Amie Alissa Watson
Amie is a Local Green Entrepreneur & Campaigner, Community Fridge Coordinator at Viking Resource Centre and Community Food Coop Founder at Baysgarth Hub. She also runs Warm Spaces Food Club at St Mary's Church Hall.
Carol says: “Amie is a great addition to the Barton Green team with her work to reduce food waste and promote reuse of unwanted materials.”
Our priorities for North Lincs Council are:
✓ Insulating homes and public buildings, more solar panels and efficient heating systems to bring down your energy bills and look after our environment.
✓ Help local people and businesses to reduce waste and to develop better reuse facilities.
✓ Constructive activities for young people.
Nadine Bones
Nadine is calling for better rural services in North Axholme. Recent years have seen a decline which needs to be reversed. The last bank on the Isle is about to close and there are only 2 part time post offices a long way apart. With the lack of sercies public transport becomes and even bigger issue, especially train services which need the hourly service back.
Sue Wilsea
Sue says a key issue in Bottesford is a lack of access to facilities for people with wheelchairs mobility scooters and prams/pushchairs. This is a problem in particular for the Bottesford Beck linear park. There isn’t a lipped kerb to the newly extended lay-by. The gates are impossible to access by wheelchair and mobility scooters, and a struggle for pushchairs and prams. An extension of the path from Messingham Rd to Scotter Road has new steps built into a bank.
Mark Bannister
My key priorities would be to use my engineering background to speak up and change the current complacency within the council leadership around North Lincolnshire's carbon emissions. Despite council assurances of "leaving the environment in a better place", North Lincs carbon emissions still go up year-on-year. I will do my utmost to ensure no further 'burying of heads in the sand', or being 'played' by the fossil fuel industries. Change need not be a sacrifice, it can be a change for the better and is needed for all our children's futures.
Broughton residents have been blessed by a long tradition of access to local woodlands benefiting their health and well-being. The current parceling-up, fencing-off and sale of Far Wood to individuals for their own personal use while excluding access to all others is something I stand firmly against. I would support and help any local people who want to make a claim for a right of way there (a DMMO). Although it is a long process, there is every chance a claim would succeed given the long history of access. This offer is independent of any success or otherwise in this election. You can contact me on nlgparty@gmail.com.
Jenny Haynes
Jenny organises the Campaign for Rural England (CPRE) National Best Kept Village competition.
My main concerns are the damage being done to our environment by lax regulations and lack of enforcement which is leading to habitat loss, water pollution and the decline of much of our wildlife. We must stop building in places liable to flooding and I would like to see strict environmental standards imposed on new developments so features such as hedgerows, trees and wetlands are not destroyed.
We need to properly insulate our houses, not only to save on energy but also to help keep us cool as our summers get hotter. It’s obvious (although not to the government) that all new houses should be properly insulated and fitted with solar panels and we urgently need to invest in retrofitting existing homes which would create local jobs as well.
Jo Baker
I have always been passionate about nature and the environment and grew up within a stone's throw of the Peak District. I was never particularly political until, as a result of my job as an Occupational Therapist with the NHS, I started to see social inequality and its impact on society. I joined the Green Party eight years ago as I believe they best reflect my own values and have a great track record of working in tandem with the residents they represent. I have lived in North Lincolnshire for six years and over that time have seen ludicrously big houses being built but not affordable housing. I've seen the council chipping away at conservation areas including in Burton upon Stather and a failure to protect natural spaces from development like in Winterton. Commitment should be about protecting the existing natural spaces not just planting trees and putting up bat boxes once the natural habitat has been bulldozed.
There is still not enough being done to mitigate the worst effects of climate breakdown on top of which we have now been plunged into a cost of living crisis. Sustainability and Green Solutions are crucial for environmental protection in tandem with real, practical benefits to households.
Jacqui Stirling
The destruction of the Earth by humans is at a critical point. I believe everything we do should take into account the impact it will make.
In this area, one of my main concerns is the housing developments that have gone ahead on Green spaces, such as wildlife ponds and streams with willow trees, with no thought for the environment. I would like to make it a condition of any new development that the environment and wildlife come first. When it has gone, it is gone forever. I believe Ecocide should be enshrined in law so that nature protection comes before profit and the few natural areas left remain for future generations to treasure.
I know there are many people in the areas that struggle to get to the other villages for appointments, meetings, family, markets and shops and would like to help improve local transport in this rural area with small electric buses and encourage car and lift sharing. This would help support small local businesses and the pop up markets.
Sue Stephenson
Sue says " I have lived in North Lincolnshire for most of my adult life and been a Green Party member for almost as long". My key priorities for North Lincs council:
To be honest about the changes ahead that our changing climate is bringing and the need to take the long view.
Housing – planning consent should be conditional on serious insulation and solar collectors being incorporated into any design. Infilling and conversions being preferable to large developments on the periphery of villages ill equipped in terms of infrastructure – from school places to drainage – to absorb the impact.
Community – support for small businesses and local shops is important to lessen the need to travel long distances to work and services. Big employers like Wren should be encouraged to cut down the impact of people travelling to work by providing transport.
Youth services – Instead of spending money policing town centres ‘to protect people from hoodlums’ it should be spent on youth services to give young people challenges of a less anti-social nature. Making our towns and villages good places to be for people of all ages.
Cycling – Making cycling 'easier and safer'. It takes pressure off the roads and gives people a positive, inexpensive way of keeping healthy. Improving cycle paths is a whole lot cheaper than building by-passes for motor traffic.
If you have any questions or have issues in your area that you think we could help with...
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General Election - December 2019
