The Green party in South Gloucestershire is urging voters to help elect their first councillors in the district in the upcoming local election. Voters will head to the polls on Thursday, May 4, to choose who should run South Gloucestershire Council.
The Greens currently have no councillors on the council, but the party has recently seen a rapid rise in Bristol, which campaigners said could start to spread out to the outskirts of the city. The party is standing in 16 seats in South Gloucestershire, but is mainly focusing on two seats in Filton.
Siân Harris is the acting coordinator of the South Gloucestershire Greens and candidate in Emersons Green. In an interview ahead of the election, she said her party had already been successful in campaigning against controversial new road junctions, called ‘through-abouts’.
