22nd February 2025 / 3rd March 2025 by simongittus
Former Children’s Centre Manager and Green Party campaigner, Kay Mitchell, is calling for assurances from Southend City Council regarding the future of family centres and libraries following the announcement of the council’s budget. With phrases like “right-sizing” and “fit-for-purpose” being used by the Labour-led administration in relation to services, Ms. Mitchell fears they could be code for further budget cuts that threaten vital community resources.
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13th January 2025 / 13th January 2025 by simongittus
Kay Mitchell, who previously served as Deputy Leader of Southend City Council and who was formerly a Labour Councillor in Milton ward, has joined the Green Party citing the party's progressive and forward-thinking policies at both local and national levels.
23rd September 2024 / 12th October 2024 by simongittus
Residents on Leigh Hall Road (Leigh) and Ilfracombe Road (Kursaal) have breathed a sigh of relief after discovering tree removal notices on every tree last Tuesday, stating that they would be felled this coming Wednesday, giving just a week's notice.
24th November 2022 / 24th November 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
SHOCKING new video shows Southend Council spraying carcinogenic herbicides on Seafront. The Green Party is today releasing this footage taken on 23.11.22, which shows a council worker blanket-spraying the carcinogenic herbicide Glyphosate across the promenade. This area of the seafront by the attractions is very popular with families and dog walkers, and frequently sees young […]
16th March 2021 / 17th March 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
Over the past few months, the council and residents have been embroiled in an unproductive debate over car parking in Southend town centre, the associated parking charges, and what impact this will have on the town's businesses as we recover from the COVID pandemic. As the town's large seafront businesses lobby the council for increasingly lowered car parking rates and the under-pressure council eyes up more locations for new and larger car parks, new insight from the Green Party suggests the obvious solutions no-one is talking about.
12th March 2021 / 12th March 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
16th November 2020 / 16th November 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
Southend Council has recently launched a public consultation of residents’ views on the introduction of a compulsory Landlord Licensing scheme across Southend.
28th May 2020 / 28th May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
Following the news that Southend Council has approved the controversial Seaway developments, our Candidate for Leigh Ward, Thomas Love gives us his thoughts on the development and its potential impact on the existing ODEON cinema. Cinemas have been a part of Southend’s colourful local history for almost a century. The Rivoli, Southend’s first dedicated cinema, opened […]
28th May 2020 / 17th June 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
On Wednesday’s crucial Development Control Committee, a narrow margin of councillors voted in favour of granting planning permission to the controversial scheme. Despite staunch opposition from neighbouring residents and vocal pleas from many seafront businesses, a proposal to refuse the scheme was narrowly rejected by seven votes to nine and the majority voted in favour of […]
30th May 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
Yesterday, three members of our local party attended the Community Policing Meeting at the Civic Centre focussing on the town centre wards of Kursaal, Milton, and Victoria. The meeting saw most of the attendees raising the same issue about different locations across the three wards; Drug dealing and Drug Use on our streets.
