St James Green Party Candidate
Isaac Price-Sosner
Your St James Exeter City Council Candidate for the Green Party in 2008
82 Pinhoe Road, Polsloe, Exeter, EX4 7HL
01392 201231
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I have lived in Exeter for the last 5 years and I work for a local company that operates across the UK and Europe. I want to make positive changes to the world I see around me, and hope that you will trust me to do that for you.
Common Sense Policy
People in Exeter and Devon badly need some sensible representation to bring common sense to policy making. We are constantly left with half baked transport policies, development plans with no thought of how sustainable or useful they will prove in the future, and spiraling council tax to pay for it all.
We need a council that will actually think about the social and environmental needs of the people it represents and not just the economic growth of the city.
The Green Party has councilors elected all over the UK and they have had the chance to improve their constituencies. A Green voice on the Devon County or Exeter City Councils is exactly what we need to bring some balance to our disproportionately grey representation.
How would we improve Devon and Exeter?
Here are Some of the problems we see around us and how we plan to change them:-
Local Jobs and Affordable Housing
We need to develop our local economy to provide meaningful local Jobs. With the right support and incentives, the South West could become the leading region for Organic food in the UK; it could see a massive expansion of farmers markets providing good quality local jobs and high quality healthy food. We also need affordable new homes and to use the planning regulations to encourage low carbon, low car developments.
A Clear Transport Policy
We need policies to reduce traffic rather than simply manage congestion and give priority to public transport. We need continuous bus lanes along all main routes from the centre of Exeter and the introduction of a metro style light rail system on existing track between Sowton and Marsh Barton via the city centre We need to explore effective ways to reduce car journeys, such as parking quotas for large businesses/organisations and taxing additional parking spaces, beginning with County Hall!
Climate Change and Energy for our Future
Exeter needs to calculate its Carbon Footprint, a measure of our carbon dioxide output, so we know the city’s contribution to climate change and can adopt policies to reduce our emissions to sustainable levels. For Britain to make real progress on climate change, every region needs to do its bit. We also need a secure energy source for our future. With Gas and Oil prices rising 50% a year, the future looks expensive and uncertain if we rely on fossil fuels. Now more than ever we need serious investment in Renewable Energy. Nuclear is a net waste of energy when you consider the full cycle, by far the most dangerous, non-renewable, and the most expensive form of electricity. The Future is Renewable Energy. The sooner we build it, the cheaper it will be, and the South West is a region rich in Renewable Energy sources.
Education and Living Space
We need to get Exeter College equal funding inline with other sixth forms across the region. We need an education environment which encourages free thought and not conformity. The same goes for our city recreational areas, where we need to safeguard and improve our green spaces and stop business developments spreading out onto greenbelt land on Exeter’s outskirts.
We just need your vote! Make a difference, Vote Green in the local elections on May 1st .