John Pearson, Green, Newcastle upon Tyne Central

Name: John Pearson

Candidate for: Newcastle upon Tyne Central

Party: Green

Votes: 568

Profile:

John Pearson is a chartered surveyor and lectures at Northumbria University. He is married and has two grown-up daughters.

He has lived and worked for more than 35 years in the constituency, since first coming to Newcastle as a student.

He has been a Green Party member for a number of years, and has stood as a councillor in his ward for the past three years as well as elsewhere in the city prior to that.

Professionally he is a passionate supporter of sustainable construction and at a personal level he campaigns for local shopping facilities, affordable housing and an ecologically sound transport policy.

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