Headingley
Green Party

2005 Local Election
Green Party Candidate for Headingley Ward

• Headingley resident since 1980

• Ex-Chair of Governors of Headingley Primary School
• Chair of the Headingley Network Community Association since 2001 – the Network has a membership of 250 families and campaigns to recreate a balanced community in Headingley
• Challenged licence and planning applications that do not contribute to the well-being of a mixed and thriving community
• In 2001 helped to initiate the enormously successful annual Celebrate Headingley festival which highlights the many positive sides of our neighbourhood
• Member of the Central Headingley Strategy Group – which developed the “Headingley Renaissance” document to guide future planning decisions
• Chair of the Lounge Action Group responding to the closure and redevelopment of the Lounge (and Cottage Road) Cinema
• Founder member of the Headingley Development Trust – which will use social enterprise to reinvest profits from local businesses back into the community – its first project is expected to be reclaiming Headingley Primary School buildings for community use

I have found it inspiring to work alongside members of the community and community organisations to create a vision of Headingley as it could be. Green politics offers the policies and strategies for achieving that vision, founded as it is in the devolvement of power to local communities and the development of sustainable local economies.

Headingley needs a local Town Council so that its future development is in the hands of residents. Currently there is much talk about ‘Green Policies’ from other parties – but little action. Our recycling bins are not emptied, cycling provision is a joke, traffic congestion continues to grow and we still have to wait for a government decision on the ‘supertram’ and green spaces are disappearing rapidly.

Lesley Jeffries

Contact details:

Campaigns Manager:
Martin Hemingway
15 St Chad’s Drive, LS6 3PZ
Tel: 2786017

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