Hackney Greens are a friendly group of Hackney residents who work together to represent the green agenda in Hackney, fighting for local issues that affect the people of Hackney. We are an entirely voluntary organisation with no full time staff, the more of us that get involved, the more we can do, everyone is welcome to help us campaign for a fairer, sustainable society.
Hackney Green Party is celebrating by-election success today as candidate Liam Davis is elected to Hackney Council, winning the Stoke Newington seat from Labour in convincing victory. The last time Greens won a by-election from the opposition in London was in 2008.
The Green Party secured a decisive win with 1253 votes, against Labour's 945.
Newly elected Councillor Liam Davis speaking after the declaration of results, Thursday 12th September
Hackney Greens Statement about dogs in Abney Park and animal welfare position.
Hackney’s green spaces are precious and we recognise how important our parks, marshes and rivers are for our wellbeing and recreation. The Green Party is passionate about protecting the animals we share this planet with - in the recent General Election we proposed the creation a new Commission on Animal Protection.
In Hackney, when the council wanted residents views on dogs off leads in Abney Park, Hackney Greens promoted the council's consultation. . Green councillors acknowledged concerns about the lack of space for dogs to express their natural behaviours off-lead and space for dogs to play and be trained in Hackney. We did not come out in favour of banning dogs off-lead in Abney Park.
Our two Green councillors are in Dalston and Hackney Downs but often get contacted by residents across the borough on important issues - they were contacted about this issue but only by a few residents so waited to see the results from the consultation and committed to making sure the council listened to residents.
We’re not aware of any councillors of any party speaking out publicly on this issue before the end of the consultation.
Green Group co-leader Cllr Alastair Binnie-Lubbock said: "Greens listen to residents and push the council to listen. Greens did not endorse the Trust's position. We are an evidence-led Party so we asked for specific evidence that dogs were harming the environment and did not see any.”
“We listened to dog walkers and we promoted engagement with the consultation. We recognised that there's a real lack of space for dogs to be off lead in Hackney and that this is one of the things that makes Abney Park so special and unique.”
“We have also listened to residents in Stoke Newington and engaged with the Trust around other issues that the park faces and we advocated on behalf of residents against the Labour administration's events licence application which included very late hours and didn't have a proper event management plan in place."
Get ready for our Hackney Green Party Annual General Meeting.
We'll be both looking back, hearing from our elected councillors and our core team officers on all the brilliant activities from the last year. We'll also be looking forward: electing new people to core team roles and thinking about how we can drive even more success over the next year or so.
Finally, we'll be joined by a guest speaker. Hackney is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities in Europe. Our speaker will tell us more about his experience of growing up as part of this community in Stanford Hill and allow us time to reflect on how we can better support and represent this part of Hackney.
Make your voice heard! Come to HGPs autumn Policy & Ideas meeting. The theme is Children and Young People - what are the issues in Hackney; what should HGP policy be; what should we be pushing the council to do.
The Crib founder - Janette - will talk to us about their work and ideas
Come along and share your ideas on C & YP, or anything else!
Look forward to seeing you there
