Green councillors have expressed their support for Romney Marsh residents opposed to huge solar farms that could transform ten percent of Romney Marsh into an industrial landscape and put the interests of big business before those of local people. The Green Party believes that while solar is essential in responding to the climate emergency, scale and location of solar farms are critical and solar panels should be fitted to all suitable buildings.

Reform's move to cancel Kent County Council's Climate Emergency Declaration is a dangerous backward step, based on a spurious sources selected to support the party's agenda rather than almost universally accepted science. Here we fact-check many of their claims. 

Green-led Folkestone & Hythe District Council is drawing a line under years of controversy by announcing that Princes Parade will be left as it is, allowing biodiversity to thrive.

The planning process can be as confusing as it is controversial. Here we explain very briefly how it works and the constraints upon planning authorities like Folkestonbe & Hythe District Council and our councillors who sit on the planning committee.

We have been trying for more than a month to get the editor of The Looker and The Hurricane to correct a story in which he claimed one of our councillors wants to allow the Marsh to flood. The story was nonsense but because he won't publish a correction, we have done so here.

Cllr Jim Martin, Kent's first Green council Leader, highlighted some of Folkestone & Hythe District Council's achievements since May 2023, including balancing budgets while building more council homes, attracting millions in new funding and launching a youth forum.

New initiatives to capitalise on Folkestone's positive press with a district-wide tourism offer and a new strategy for protecting and enhancing local heritage assets are just part of current work within Rich Holgate's cabinet portfolio. Along with the regeneration of Folkestone town centre, these will contribute to efforts to boost the district's economy.

Shepway Green Party is fielding a formidable roster of candidates, across all six divisions covered by Folkestone & Hythe district, at the Kent County Council (KCC) elections on 1 May. It will be the last time voters get a chance to pass judgement on how the Conservatives have run KCC before it, and the district council, are replaced by a unitary authority. This is a vital opportunity to send a great new Green team to County Hall.