News and views from Fife Greens

A Citizens’ Income for all is progressive way forward for Fife

Kerstin Romano Fri 17 Mar, 2017

One of the main recommendations that came out of 2015’s Fairer Fife Commission was to hold a Citizens’ Income pilot in a Fife town.

The Scottish Greens are delighted to see Fife Council taking forward this proposal as it has been part of our policy for over 30 years.

It’s time to reclaim our town centre

Kerstin Romano Fri 17 Mar, 2017

Something is far wrong when beautiful buildings like this lie empty in the heart of the town centre.

Room for improvement on school consultations

Kerstin Romano Fri 17 Mar, 2017

In light of recent planning permissions for further housing in and around Dunfermline, the Council has been holding provisional consultations with parents and carers of local children to discuss the potential impact of the increase in school age children.

While I welcome these steps, we need to ensure that these consultations go further and that the Council continues to keep parents and carers updated on the proposed changes to catchment areas and the building of new primary schools.

Time to clean up our act on air quality and congestion

Kerstin Romano Fri 17 Mar, 2017

Dunfermline’s Appin Crescent is the most polluted street in Fife, according to a report recently published by Friends of the Earth Scotland. Fife Council published an Air Quality Action Plan for the street back in 2015, but progress has been slow, and Mid Scotland and Fife’s Green MSP Mark Ruskell has raised the issue in Holyrood, calling it a ‘public health crisis’.

Let’s get our rail services back on track

Susan Jeynes Fri 17 Mar, 2017

Green councillors and MSPs have a long history of fighting for decent public transport for all, from the Better Buses campaign in Glasgow, to campaigning against axing rural routes in Dumfries and Galloway.

With coal trucks no longer rolling towards Longannet we have the opportunity to reopen the Dunfermline to Alloa line and create a rail link all the way to Glasgow.

Greens secure extra funding for communities across Fife

Susan Jeynes Fri 17 Mar, 2017

Green MSPs played a key role in the 2017 budget negotiations in Holyrood, securing an extra £160m for councils across Scotland. In Fife this meant an additional £10.78m to spend in 2017/18, which saw some of the most damaging cuts proposed  in the draft budget in November being scrapped.

These had included proposals to increase class sizes in Fife schools to the maximum legal limit, removing free bus passes from some pupils, and closing all remaining public toilets in Fife.

Our candidate for Leven, Kennoway and Largo by-election

Susan Jeynes Mon 14 Nov, 2016

Fife Greens are pleased to announce our candidate for the Leven, Kennoway and Largo council by-election, which will take place on Thursday the 15^th of December 2016.

Iain Morrice is an experienced member of the Scottish Green Party, having stood as a candidate on numerous occasions, and having acted as treasurer on the party executive.