Green Party

Public services and housing

• Green Councillors played a leading role in the successful community campaign to save the Post Offices at Vauxhall Street and New Costessey. The Government had proposed the closure of these vital local services, but agreed to keep them open after a successful campaign by Green Councillors and local residents.
• Green Councillors secured City Council support for the campaign to protect Norfolk’s fire service from Government plans to merge Norfolk’s fire control service with those of five other counties.
• Green Councillors worked with local residents to save the Sure Start nursery on Wolfe Road when the Conservatives at County Hall wanted to close it down.
• Green Councillors supported the new committee at Belvedere Community Centre to get the centre up and running again.
• After years of lobbying from Green Councillors, the Labour administration at City Hall agreed to require an affordable housing quota of 40% for all new developments of more than 24 houses.
• Green Councillors led the successful campaign to keep Council housing under public ownership when the Government wanted it to be privatised.