AS well as looking for a different site for Worcester City FC, the Green Party and Labour will pursue a raft of detailed policies which can today be revealed.
The big one is to dump the controversial outsourcing of bin collections, park maintenance and street sweeping to the private sector.
The old Conservative leadership wanted to hand it over by September next year, in a possible deal with Malvern and Wychavon aimed at saving around £400,000 a year.
It will mean around 111 jobs staying in-house, with the Labour administration sharing the Green's view on scrapping it.
There will also be no more outsourcing to firms that do not pay the Living Wage or have staff on zero hours contracts.
Bosses will also pursue an idea to put solar panels on council buildings, with the aim of getting them up by May 2017.
Work will be carried out between now and November to test the financial feasibility of it.
The Greens also want a yearly 'carbon budget' that targets carbon reductions, to be approved by full council alongside the financial budget each February.
The council could also fund more bike racks in the city, report levels of pollution on its website and take part in an 'Empty Homes Loan Fund' to help owners of empty properties bring them into affordable housing use.
The focus on bike racks will include Foregate Street station, a popular place for cyclists to park up.
The Greens wish-list also includes developing its ‘Living Over The Shop’ (LOTS) campaign, aimed at making Worcester a UK pioneer for rolling out widespread conversions of empty upper shop floors into flats.
Another Green idea is to partner up with a developer or housing association like Fortis Living to build 20 of the novel eco-properties known as Passivhaus homes on council-owned land.
A cross-party working group will also be set up to investigate why people do not vote in local elections, and then make recommendations to improve turnout.
They want to ban the use of weed-killer glyphosate on council-owned land, tighten up housing enforcement and launch a study into the implications of sourcing goods and services locally.
The Greens say they want to display the percentage of locally sourced goods and services within the city magazine Worcester Life and have annual targets set by the Labour cabinet.
The Green Party says quarterly meetings will be held with the Labour leadership to check on the progress in each area.
Councillor Louis Stephen, the chairman, said: “We will see what happens over the next 12 months but we want more cross-party working, we want to see these things happen and we will be holding them to account on that.”
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