The Guildford Greenbelt Group is a small political party within the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
which seeks to preserve the
green belt
A green belt is a policy and land-use zone designation used in land-use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighboring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges, which ...
surrounding
Guildford in
Surrey.
The group was founded in 2013 and the party was registered with the
Electoral Commission
An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a c ...
in 2014.
Electoral history
Its chair, Susan Parker, stood in
Guildford in the
2015 general election coming in 6th place with 538 votes (1.0%)
Standing in some wards in the
Borough of Guildford
The Borough of Guildford is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. With around half of the borough's population, Guildford is its largest settlement and only town, and is the location of the council.
The distr ...
in the
2015 local elections, the party gained its first three councillors, and secured 20,614 votes across the borough. At the
2019 local elections the party increased its Borough Council representation to four seats.
In the
2023 local elections, the GGG lost one of their seats, bringing their total down to 3 for the 2023–2027 council term.
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Guildford
Political parties established in 2014
Locally based political parties in England
2014 establishments in England
Green belts in the United Kingdom
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