Our Policies

To take a look at the national Green Party manifesto for the 2024 General Election, please click on the link below:

A vote for a Green Party councillor is a vote for:

A Councillor That Listens

Listening to people and getting their voices heard on local and global issues.

Real Action on the Climate & Emergencies

MK Council has declared a Climate Emergency and committed to being carbon neutral by 2030. However, the council’s current policies will not deliver that. Policies need to be more radical to reach that target.

We would create a Green New Deal and encourage:

• Carbon-neutral housing that meets community needs
• Better insulation for every dwelling in Milton Keynes over the next five years to reduce energy consumption and energy bills
• Generation of more electricity locally from renewable sources, including solar and wind power
• Solar panels and heat pumps on all suitable council-owned buildings and solar panels over surface car parks
• Council to procure its electricity from renewable sources
• Community-owned energy company
• Protecting wildlife habitats and enhancing biodiversity
• Planting more trees in streets, parks, and green spaces
• Working with grassroots organizations to implement a sustainable food strategy for the city
• Stopping water companies from discharging sewage into our rivers and bringing the water companies back into public control
• Reducing litter and fly-tipping
• Reducing waste and encouraging repair, re-use, and recycling

Decent Homes & Neighbourhoods

• Provide more affordable social housing to reduce waiting lists and homelessness
• Push for more secure tenancies for renters and smart controls to stabilize rents
• Ensure that residents have the final say over any regeneration proposals
• Ensure that the New City Plan prioritizes people, providing the homes they need and protecting biodiversity and the environment
• Insist that any enlargement of MK is matched by supporting infrastructure, such as schools, surgeries, dentists, transport, and green spaces

A Healthier, Caring City

• Improve public health by providing more information about diet and exercise
• Oppose privatization of the NHS and ensure it is properly funded
• Provide more youth services
• Provide mental health support for young people, including positive activities such as sports, arts, clubs, and access to outdoor spaces
• Challenge the reduction in central government funding for MKCC, which has led to cuts in services
• Protect schools, libraries, post offices, and other local services from cuts, closures, and privatization
• Support the voluntary sector
• Offer free lunches in all state schools every school day to every pupil
• Support food banks and other agencies that help people deal with government austerity and cuts
• Support people in need of adult social care to remain in their own homes where practicable and ensure good quality residential care provision
• Continue to fight for equal rights for disadvantaged and minority groups
• Provide more support for services countering domestic abuse, forced marriage, and FGM
• Fight for social justice, offering support and advice to those affected by benefit cuts and Universal Credit

Jobs in the Local Economy

• Encourage and support MK’s thriving arts scene and protect live performance venues from closure due to nearby developments
• Support the Night-Time Economy to help revitalize the city centre with locally owned venues and businesses
• Encourage local employers and council contractors to pay the Living Wage
• Support MK University
• Support smaller, local businesses and a growing localized economy
• Support Worker Co-ops and Unions, and encourage more worker-owned businesses
• Champion local food production and farmers' markets

Better Public Transport and Safer Streets

• Provide better and more reliable bus services, including more evening and weekend services, and better facilities for bus users
• Make roads safer by introducing more 20mph speed limits in residential areas and reducing speed limits on grid roads
• Install Electric Car charge points in new-build housing and more on-street charging points
• Promote more cycling and walking in MK
• Add more Redways in old towns and rural areas
• Improve maintenance of footpaths, Redways, and street lighting to encourage more pedestrians and cyclists
• Encourage more children and parents to walk or cycle to school to decrease parking issues outside schools
• Stop engine idling outside schools
• Support East West Rail from MK Central to both Oxford and Cambridge and ensure the line is electrified
• Support an Eastern entrance at Bletchley station

International

Six months on from the horrific Hamas attacks on Israeli citizens, it is clear that the Netanyahu government’s response has been totally disproportionate. Green councillors would support motions to MKCC calling for:

• A full bilateral ceasefire
• The release of all hostages
• The suspension of arms exports to Israel
• Holding key players in the Netanyahu government accountable for possible war crimes

Greens support the UN General Assembly’s call for Russia’s unconditional withdrawal, a just and lasting peace based on the sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities.

A just peace must also include the investigation and prosecution of war crimes.

If you would like to know more about MK Green Party, please get in touch.