Green Party

“Disaster for local democracy” says Ramsay

The Green Party is strongly opposed to the latest Boundary Committee suggestion to government that there should be one big council running the whole of Norfolk.

The Greens continue to support unitary status for Norwich.

Adrian Ramsay, Green Party General Election candidate for Norwich South, said:

“Just one council for the whole of Norfolk would be a disaster for local democracy. It would mean decisions being taken at a remote level and councillors having responsibility for areas up to seventy miles away from the people who elected them. A unitary Norfolk would serve a population similar to that of Birmingham but with a geographical area twenty times bigger. It could not be more inappropriate for Norfolk.

“Decisions should be taken at a more local level, where councillors know the areas they are responsible for and where they are accountable to local residents. A unitary council for Norwich would achieve this, with all decisions being taken by councillors elected by Norwich residents to represent Norwich. We will be pressing for a unitary Norwich and for no change elsewhere in the county.”

Between now at January 19th the government will be conducting a consultation on the recommendation of the Boundary Committee that there should be one unitary council for Norfolk. At the end of the consultation the government will have three options:

*No change

*A whole county unitary authority for Norfolk

*The original bid for a unitary authority on the existing Norwich boundaries with no change elsewhere in Norfolk.

The issue was debated as an urgent item at a group meeting of Green Party city councillors last night (Mon). The Greens will be arguing strongly for the third of these options.

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Chiana
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Reply #2 on : Sat June 25, 2011, 14:14:46

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Now we know who the seinlsbe one is here. Great post!

Anonymous
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Re: The Green Party is strongly opposed to the latest Boundary Committee suggestion to government th
Reply #1 on : Wed December 09, 2009, 21:53:28

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Thank goodness, then, that the Boundary Committee has more sense than the Green party in Norwich, which still wants to ignore all the evidence that the city is simply not big enough to sustain a unitary local authority. Or do they want to impose "Greater Norwich" onto all the surrounding parishes which have unanimously rejected being absorbed into their larger neighbour?