BROCKLEY WARD News and views from the Green Party delivered to over 6,000 homes in GREEN NEWS Brockley, St.Johns and New Cross JAN/FEB 2010 www.lewisham.greenparty.org.uk No cuts to local rail services, demand Greens Darren Like many commuters, Green councillors Johnson have reacted furiously to planned cuts in Brockley local rail services. A Green Party motion Ward condemning the cuts was passed Councillor unanimously by councillors of all parties. It called on train bosses, TfL and the government to rethink their plans. The cut in services will mean stations including Forest Hill, Brockley and New Cross Gate, will be served by only four trains an hour to London Bridge instead of six. The cuts emerged despite the government saying when they awarded Dean Walton at Brockley station the contract last summer that the new rail franchise would mean more regular services. Green Party councillor Dean Walton, who tabled the motion, said, "These service cuts are unacceptable. The long-awaited Romayne East London Line service should not be used as an excuse to cut London Bridge services Phoenix purely for financial reasons." Brockley Ward Darren launches MP campaign Councillor with Green Party Leader The Green Party's national Leader, Caroline Lucas MEP, recently visited Deptford market to help launch Darren Johnson's campaign to be the MP for Lewisham Deptford. One of the Green Party's key pledges for the coming general election will be the creation of a million new jobs. The proposed jobs will be in areas such as public transport, green energy, Contact us if you’d like to hear more affordable housing and care for ® I can help to deliver Green News in my street elderly people. Caroline Lucas ® I’d like more information about the Green Party said, "Lewisham Deptford is one Dean ® I’d like to make a donation to “Lewisham Green Party” of the Green Party's top three Walton seats in the coming General Name ______Brockley Election. Darren Johnson has Address ______Ward turned one of the safest Labour ______seats in the country into a key Councillor Telephone ______battleground. He is an experienced London politician Email ______and I really want to see him make Please return to 204a Adelaide Avenue, London SE4 1JN or that Westminster breakthrough.". phone 020 8690 0658 or email [email protected]
Support the Greens – call 020 8690 0658 Youth music studio gets the go ahead A music studio for the Leander Court youth centre off make little or no difference to the decisions made. But Tanners Hill is one of the projects that has been given this has been completely different. It has been local the go-ahead by the Brockley Ward Assembly. In a people coming up with the ideas and local people packed public meeting at the Leander Community deciding how the money should be spent.” Centre in Ship Street, local people got to vote on which As well as the music studio a number of other plans projects they wanted funded from the Mayor’s Fund in were approved: Brockley Ward. Those presenting the proposals were given the chance to outline their project would benefit • more litter bins and recycling facilities the area and then those assembled were allowed to ask • film equipment for the Vulcan Youth Club any questions they had about the project. Everyone then voted in a secret ballot. • a Summer event for older people in Brockley • planting on the Clare Road estate, St Donnatt’s Road Brockley Green councillor, Romayne Phoenix said, “People have rightly become cynical about going along and Brockley Station to so-called consultation events knowing it's going to • support for the Brockley Max arts and music festival. How to contact your local New Cross Road is air pollution councillors If you have any queries or issues you hotspot would like us to take up on your behalf, Official figures for please either call us, email us, or come 2009 show that along to one of our regular surgeries. pollution levels on Cllr. Darren Johnson 020 8694 6541 New Cross Road [email protected] were significantly Cllr. Romayne Phoenix 020 8699 3945 higher than the [email protected] European legal Cllr. Dean Walton 020 8691 1046 limits. It is [email protected] estimated that Darren Johnson and Romayne Pheonix about 3,000 check out air pollution on New Cross Road Londoners die every Brockley Ward surgeries: year from respiratory problems caused or exacerbated by high 2nd Saturday of the month - St John's pollution levels. Darren Johnson, London Assembly member and Church, Lewisham Way (10-11am) Brockley councillor, said, “The Mayor of London and Lewisham 4th Saturday of the month - St Andrews’s Council need to be doing far more to tackle air pollution. As well Centre, Junction of Wickham Road and as reducing traffic we need to be switching to cleaner buses, like Brockley Road (10-11am) in Stockholm where they power their buses on biogas from kitchen waste.”
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