Press Releases for 2005
GREEN PARTY COMMENDED FOR 'JOINED-UP' APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT
2nd May 2005The Green Party has received a commendation from the Royal Town Planning Institute for its efforts to get policy makers to connect transport, planning and the environment. The Institute noted: "With the exception of the Greens, there is still a failure to connect planning, transport and the environment and to provide a joined-up approach to infrastructure.(1)" Steve Dawe notes:
"This support for our approach is not surprising. Leading Architect, Lord Richard Rogers, gave his support to the re-election of South East Green MEP, Caroline Lucas, last year. Having chaired the Government's Urban Task Force which produced an Urban White Paper, he was clearly very disappointed by the decline in commitment to urban regeneration which had occurred during the Labour Government since 1997(2). Labour has also backed away from the greener commitments suggested in its Ten Year Transport plan, reverting to road-building as a major priority.
"A vote for Green Candidates in the County and General Elections is a vote for a sane approach to development. Brownfield sites in urban areas must be used before any greenfield site development is considered."
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FURTHER INFORMATION: Steve Dawe, Press Officer, Kent Green Party, on 01233 645167 or 07747 036192. Press release issued on behalf of 33 Green Party candidates for Kent County Council and 4 general election candidates for Ashford, Canterbury, Folkestone and Hythe and South Thanet.
Notes:
1. From the front page of the journal of the Journal of the Royal Town Planning Institute's weekly magazine ("Planning" - 15th April, 2005), the main item is a review of the various parties manifestos.
2. Lord Rogers has made his opinion of the Government very clear: Richard Rogers and Anne Power Cities for a small country (Faber and Faber, 2000).
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