"Catherine lives with her partner Andrew and works for an insurance company.

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She is active in the community: running a community choir in Failsworth and regularly volunteering with Street Pastors. She is keen to stand up for our NHS, halting and reversing the privatisation of health services.

She is also concerned about the serious damage fracking could cause to our landscape and our health. Greens across the country have been at the forefront of anti-fracking campaigning, and Green Councillors have passed motions to protect their local areas from the damaging impacts of fracking.

At a local level, Catherine has reservations about the processes Oldham Council uses to approve planning permissions. She says “the developments I have seen in recent years don’t seem to make sense: green spaces and recreational areas are being lost to housing, and many do not meet the recommended quotas for affordable homes. Meanwhile brownfield sites are left derelict: if we invested in these instead, we could have newly renovated areas for housing as well as retaining green space.”"