19 October 2021
Moordown Green Party campaigner Kate Salmon has asked BCP Council if they will provide extra litter bins, on a long shop-lined stretch of Wimborne Road in Moordown which currently has none.
18 October 2021
The playground at Mallard Road Park in Bournemouth is so old and run down that there are safety concerns for children using it, says local Green Party campaigner Kate Salmon. The park is by Bishop of Winchester Academy, on a through route also very close to Queen’s Park Children’s Centre, Queen’s Park Academy (junior and infants), and the grammar schools. The park also serves residents who live in flats without gardens on the adjacent social housing estate.
17 October 2021
Kate Salmon, local parent and Green Party speaker for Moordown, has started a campaign for a new pedestrian crossing on Charminster Road, in the area north of the Moordown-catchment schools and children’s centre on East Way and Malvern Road. Kate explains: “There is no safe place to cross for quite a long stretch, from south of East Way north to Castle Lane. It concerns me - many children walk to school that way."
16 October 2021
Many Moordown residents volunteered for BCP Council’s much-praised “Together We Can” programme. Across BCP over 2,000 signed up. Volunteers have helped to collect essential medications and deliver food supplies to local people in need during the pandemic. Volunteers also worked to get the message out to those not online.
21 September 2021
This summer BCP Council’s Conservative Cabinet waved through proposals to spend £90,000 of public money on two new cars for its mayors. This follows £50k spent by the Council preparing a failed bid for Freeport status for Bournemouth & Poole - despite warnings that Freeports benefit only a wealthy few while breeding corruption, tax evasion and criminal activity. In good news, BCP’s climate team is said to be expanding from two staff to eight.
13 September 2021
Winton East Green Councillor Simon Bull's recent activities have included face-to-face resident liaison, seeking to get a handle on increasing neighbourhood drugs issues, also observed in other Bournemouth neighbourhoods including Charminster.
10 September 2021
Simon Bull, Green Councillor for Winton East, attended the opening of Arts University Bournemouth's new on-campus student halls yesterday.
29 August 2021
Green Party member of the House of Lords, Baroness Jenny Jones, has criticised the failure of the new Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner, the Conservatives' David Sidwick, to reinstate the local policing scrutiny panels set up by his independent predecessor. Baroness Jones described it as "clearly a very poor decision" and a "bad choice for Dorset".
29 August 2021
Bournemouth Green Councillor Simon Bull commented: "I attended this protest and was very moved by the number who were there and the words said. My heart goes out to Mehmet's family. There needs to be a major review of policy. The 'war on drugs' is not working. This boy was only 13."
25 July 2021
Concerned local citizens came together at Horseshoe Common yesterday, to "protest BCP Council's failure to deliver on their declaration of a climate and ecological emergency" two years ago - proposed by Green Councillor Simon Bull who attended the march.