The A629 road-widening scheme is currently being considered by Kirklees Planning Department . Please sign our petition: Call for a moratorium on new road widening/ building schemes in Kirklees General objections 1.      More roads = more traffic = more carbon emissions If you build more roads, you will get more traffic, a phenomenon […]

The Huddersfield Friends of the Earth group has been working hard to raise climate and environmental issues up the agenda of the forthcoming Kirklees local elections on 6 May. The group has held an online Zoom hustings with representatives from the four main political parties and has also run a candidate survey asking candidates their […]

Today campaigners from across Kirklees formed a jobs queue outside Huddersfield Job Centre. The campaigners, who included people who had been made unemployed during COVID, were dressed as workers in a range of possible green jobs from carers and NHS staff to gardeners, green builders and electric bus mechanics and were holding signs saying ‘Green […]

Online hustings organised by Huddersfield Friends of the Earth THIS Thursday 22 April at 7pm Huddersfield Friends of the Earth is organising a hustings and candidate survey ahead of the Kirklees local elections 2021. The online hustings/ debate will be held on Thursday 22 April at 7pm and offer a chance to hear local politicians […]

Clarification sought on extent of public money proposed to be spent on new surface access schemes required by Leeds Bradford Airport expansion. Concern that West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) financial support is being given to a project that undermines WYCA’s own Climate Emergency response. A coalition of climate and social justice campaigners from across West […]

Huddersfield Friends of the Earth (FoE) has criticised Kirklees Council for its failure to take a stand against plans to expand Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA). The campaigners say they are ‘deeply disappointed’ by the council’s response to their call for a public statement, contrasting it with the public opposition to the plans that Wakefield Council […]

Huddersfield Friends of the Earth has written to Cllr Naheed Mather asking her to speak out against controversial plans to expand Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA). In their letter sent today (04/11/20), the climate campaigners warn that expansion would see the airport double its greenhouse gas emissions. Cllr Mather is Kirklees Council’s climate emergency cabinet member, […]

  27th August 2020.  Supporters from Green New Deal Huddersfield and other related campaign groups gathered outside MPs’ offices across Kirklees to hand in letters calling for a green recovery. The local event is part of national day of action led by Green New Deal UK showing the extent of support for a sustainable recovery for […]

With climate change and biodiversity loss a key concern for voters in the upcoming General Election, Huddersfield Friends of the Earth has undertaken a survey of candidates in the Batley & Spen, Colne Valley, Dewsbury and Huddersfield constituencies. Amongst other things the survey asked local candidates to take Friends of the Earth pledge to make […]

For the General Election 2019 we sent out a survey to all political candidates in the Huddersfield, Colne Valley, Dewsbury and Batley & Spen constituencies on a few key climate and biodiversity issues. The results of the surveys will be shared with the press and social media. Among other things, we asked candidates to support […]