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Press release: Big rise in long term empty homes in Winchester

Submitted by Alison Craig on 21 March 2011 - 4:16am
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The number of long term empty homes in Winchester has risen by almost a quarter in just 9 months. This news has emerged as the City waits in suspense for the Secretary of State’s decision on Barton Farm, a proposal to build 2000 new homes on the last remaining ‘green wedge’ of the City.
 
In response to Freedom of Information requests by Winchester Green Party, the Council has disclosed that in June last year, there were 118 long term empty properties in City wards, and now there are 146, an increase of 28 properties.
 
‘These properties must be brought back into use as an urgent priority’, says Alison Craig, Green Party local election candidate for the St Bartholomew Ward. ‘It is a dreadful waste of existing housing stock to have it standing empty.

Press release: Winchester Green Party lambasts HCC Carbon Strategy, July 2010

Submitted by Alison Craig on 4 July 2010 - 10:44pm
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Winchester Green Party is so concerned about Hampshire County Council’s draft Carbon Strategy, to be decided at a Cabinet meeting tomorrow, 26th July 2010, that the group is making a deputation. The Council climate change Strategy aims to reduce the organisation’s own emissions by 20 per cent, but not until 2015. Many other organisations, including Winchester City Council, have higher targets – 20 per cent by 2012. 

Winchester Green Party in bid to make history

Submitted by Alison Craig on 19 April 2010 - 2:35pm
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Winchester Greens are going flat out to get the first ever Green Party councillor in Hampshire elected, in the Winchester City Council election on 6th May.
 
Alison Craig is standing in the St Bartholomew Ward and says her chances are good. She says ‘Brighton, Oxford, and Norwich have had Green councillors for years. As a result they are much greener places than Winchester.
 
Imagine Winchester City after another 20 years of just the grey parties: a car-blighted, polluted urban sprawl. Everyone we have talked to says there are too many cars in Winchester.’
 
Although Winchester Greens have stood in the local elections in previous years, this is the first time they have run a campaign in a target Ward. Their top opponent is Liberal Democrat and retiring Mayor, Dominic Hiscock.
 
Alison says, ‘The current incumbent has done the job for ten years and it is time for a change. We need fresh ideas on Winchester City Council.’