Our town centres are dying, because of the Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour. All of these parties support out of town retail parks including Rushden Lakes, and all do not support small businesses, including shops, cafes and pubs, in our town centres. I simply do not understand why we are letting our town centres turn into ghost town centres and why are local elected politicians letting our local shops die?
In Wellingborough and Rushden today we have scores of empty units and with more closing every week, how long will it be before we have lost every independent or small chain store from our town centres? The latest victim is workwear and camping shop George Alan who are set to close both of their Rushden and Wellingborough shops by the end of June. In Silver Street, Wellingborough, half of the units are empty and more are closing!
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We are joining Friends of the Earth in calling for a national week of action for clean air from 24 June to 2 July 2017. After weeks of delay and speculation, the government finally published its draft Air Quality Plan on 5 May. This should have been a Plan that effectively dealt with the shocking air pollution crisis that blights the lives of so many. This should have been a Plan for clean air that put the health of the nation first. This should have been a Plan that helped people out of dirty diesels in to clean vehicles and cheaper, better, public transport. Unfortunately for us all – it wasn’t. Far from it.
The General Election saw increases in vote share for the Conservatives and Labour at the expense of all the smaller parties. The Green Party was definitely affected across Northamptonshire, where we saw our vote share come in at between 1.5% and 2.4%. Green votes were significantly lower in constituencies where Labour genuinely a threat to the Conservatives. Unfortunately a lot of people who would have wanted to vote Green felt that it was more important to vote against the party they didn’t want to get in than to vote for who they actually wanted. I had lots of conversations with people after they voted and many said the Green Party had the best policies but they voted tactically.
The Borough Council of Wellingborough, as a tree owner; has a direct responsibility to protect trees in Wellingborough. The council have released a 