Articles by Nick Eden-Green

Response to draft Local Plan

January 6, 2023

The draft local plan is based on a fundamentally false premise which makes it meaningless. The most controversial aspect of the plan relates to housing numbers and their location. This, in turn, drives the twin problems of traffic congestion and pollution. The 2020 consultation produced no single positive option but the ‘least worst’, on which […]

Public and Councillors gagged over Local Plan

May 19, 2022

The City Council press release on the Local Plan confirms that this is being worked on by officers in secret. This has been going on for months. No councillors are involved in the process. No members of the public, residents’ associations or parish councils are involved at all. The current Local Plan was put together […]

Car Park Farce

March 9, 2022

Nick Eden-Green responds to Canterbury City Council’s car park sell off

Botched bypass thinking

August 15, 2021

It looks as if Ben Fitter-Harding and Canterbury City Council are about to embark on another great mistake

2040 Local Plan

June 7, 2021

You have a chance to comment on the local plan, Nick Eden-Green summarizes the view of your Lib Dem councillors.

Park and ride on Wincheap Water Meadows is a dead duck

March 24, 2021

The council has revoked the planning permission which it granted itself in an unprecedented move

Canterbury nurses shafted by the Conservatives

March 18, 2021

The government has the money but chooses to spend it elsewhere

Car park site floods again

January 18, 2021

The council must permanently commit to ending flawed plans to build here

Conservatives rig planning decisions

January 13, 2021

Tory leader ends fair and transparent planning process by instructing councillors how to vote

Victory in battle to save Wincheap Water Meadow

October 12, 2020

The City Council plan to extend the Park and Ride onto the Water Meadows at Wincheap has been abandoned. Local LD Cllr Nick Eden-Green has been fighting this plan for years.