25 August 2025 / 25 August 2025 by Geoff Skinner
Today, myself and a number of Green Party members joined hundreds of people marching to support Southampton Pride. The annual march reminds queer people and allies alike that the need to fight for rights is not won and sends a message to those who aren’t or don’t want to be aware, that LQBTQIA+ people are […]
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15 August 2025 / 15 August 2025 by Geoff Skinner
A message of peace and recognition from Southampton to the children of Palestine during the fundraiser picnic with the Southampton Palestine Friendship Network, on Sunday 10th August, from Green Councillor Matt Renyard:” it seems hard to imagine how it is that our Prime Minister […] can continue to dismiss this situation for the genocide that […]
14 August 2025 / 14 August 2025 by Geoff Skinner
Rights of Rivers interview with Katherine Barbour on Your Green Breakfast with Xan Phillips In this episode of ‘Your Green Breakfast’ on Voice FM, host Xan Phillips discusses with Cllr Katherine Barbour a newly passed motion by Southampton City Council to protect Hampshire’s chalk streams, such as the River Itchen, by giving them legal rights. […]
Katherine Barbour video Interview with Suffrago about Water Pollution in Southampton and OFWAT’s abolition.
At the end of the 2024-25 academic year, Katherine Barbour cycled around the ward looking for rubbish hotspots left by departing tenants and any other issues of concern. She identified a number of properties where tenants had vacated and had left unsorted rubbish outside the houses and flats or where there was excess rubbish around […]
20 July 2025 / 20 July 2025 by Geoff Skinner
Sign the Petition – Prevent Tree Removal in South Stoneham Cemetery At a Cabinet meeting on 15 July, a felling licence for 19 healthy mature trees and works on a further 10 ongrounds of “aviation safety” was approved. Southampton Airport has long wished to remove “obstacles”to the flight path which means that the larger aircraft cannot take […]
17 July 2025 by Geoff Skinner
SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire 16th JULY 2025 – This week, a Rights of the River Motion was passed by Southampton City Council. Following extensive work to bring about a cross-party motion on rights of the river, Councillors came together to highlight the needs of this vital blue space within our city as an official move to protect […]
16 July 2025 / 16 July 2025 by Geoff Skinner
MAJORITY LABOUR COUNCIL VOTE TO SELL VITAL CHALK RIVER, ACTIVITY CENTRE AND SSSI TO COMPANY PREVIOUSLY FINED £90M FOR ILLEGAL SEWAGE DISCHARGES. SOUTHAMPTON, Hampshire 16th JULY 2025 – Popular Southampton site Woodmill Activity Centre and surrounding land, including a designated site of Special Scientific Interest, has today been given the green light by a majority […]
18 May 2025 by Geoff Skinner
Thank Goodness, said Cllr Katherine Barbour, Green Party, on hearing the news that the Bus Gate is being suspended. She has been calling for this since the end of January when this trial started. No data was presented about the impact of the first 3 months of the trial but clearly the results are not […]
14 May 2025 / 14 May 2025 by Geoff Skinner
Some members of the local party including Cllr Matt Reynard attended a Trans Rights protest on 26th April in Southampton. Around 500 people marched through the city demanding Trans Rights. A number of supportive speeches were made including from local trade union officials. This followed a Supreme Court ruling on 16th April stating the definition […]
