Our Local Policies - Sefton Green Party

Create empowered local communities with safe, people-friendly neighbourhoods
Protect our coastline and greenspaces from inappropriate development and road building
Promote and incentivise active travel and the greater use of public transport
Protect and encourage biodiversity

Press Sefton to produce a more coherent and demanding local climate action plan
Prioritise the insulation of homes and other buildings in order to tackle fuel poverty and cut greenhouse gas emissions
Promote and support local renewable energy projects
Use properly informed citizen’s panels to address issues such the climate emergency, liveable neighbourhoods, speed limits, cycle lanes etc.

Prioritise the building of homes on brown field sites rather than car-centric developments on low-lying Greenbelt sites typically away from any other supporting infrastructure
Prioritise the building and renovation of affordable, energy-efficient, homes rather than new ‘Executive homes’
Press for fair rents and ensure all properties are maintained to a good liveable standard.

Continue to press Sefton to improve detection and enforcement against fly tipping and dog-fouling
Tackle air pollution – This is a serious health issue in areas in the south of the borough
Improve recycling rates from one of the worst in the country to one of the best
Provide more street bins where there is an obvious need or a local demand
Ensure these bins are emptied and that takeaway businesses take more responsibility for litter produced in association with their business

The Green Party supports the use of a fair proportional voting system as this would empower voters and ensure councillors and MPs (of whatever party) are elected in proportion to the votes cast
Proportional representation safeguards against single party domination based on a minority of the vote
Few would claim long-term single party governance, locally or nationally, leads to good decision-making or political outcomes