Hazel Dawe: Green Party parliamentary candidate for Tunbridge Wells

Hazel Dawe is married to fellow Green Party campaigner Steve Dawe and lives in Tonbridge. She has been a Green Party member since she returned to this country from Austria in 1988. Her interest in Green politics started when she participated in the anti-nuclear power movement in Austria which led to a referendum against nuclear power. Austria is still a nuclear free country.

Hazel was a founding member of Transition Town Tonbridge. She is on the committee of Tonbridge Line Commuters and on the panel of Haysden Country Park Users’ Group where she raised funds for naming signs for the bridges in the Country Park. Hazel is a lecturer in law and currently teaches at the London School of Economics and the University of Westminster.

Hazel does not own a car and feels that Tunbridge Wells could do much more to develop pleasant and convenient walking and cycling routes to reduce the traffic gridlock from which the town currently suffers.

Hazel has solar water heating installed on the roof of her home and is a keen advocate of renewable energy. She has supported the development of wind farms in Kent.

Hazel can be contacted by email: hazeldawe at bulldoghome.com (replace the 'at' with @)