Leigh Ward Southend City Council
13th February 2023 / 13th February 2023 by James Vessey-Miller
Southend Council has started 2023 with a doubling-down on their efforts to remove trees across Southend. The Green Party has been applying pressure to Southend Council following a new string of incidents of indefensible and avoidable tree removal. Several roads across Southend, particularly Leigh, have seen the council’s yellow Tree Removal Notices being stapled to […]
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Prittlewell Ward
20th December 2022 / 20th December 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
Today the South East Essex Green Party joined other local campaigners on the Green outside Southend Hospital today to show solidarity with striking health workers. This unprecedented NHS industrial action is happening as a last resort and as a direct consequence of our essential workers being overworked and underpaid by successive governments. It is unsafe and unfair […]
Kursaal Ward Milton Ward
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 […]
Milton Ward
7th October 2022 / 19th November 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
In July this year, the South East Essex Green Party launched a petition and community campaign to save the Railway Hotel Southend from inappropriate development. Leading members of the local Green Party submitted the paperwork officially nominating The Railway Hotel to be considered an Asset of Community Value by Southend City Council, and additionally launched […]
Southend City Council
11th July 2022 / 11th July 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
24th June 2022 / 24th June 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
6th June 2022 / 6th June 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
The Green Party's Fiona Clapperton, Tilly Hogrebe, and James Vessey-Miller attended the opening of Southend’s first Climate Hub today.
21st April 2022 / 21st April 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
We have been made aware of some ill-informed comments made by the Liberal Democrat candidate for Leigh about the Greens. In a column written by Carole Mulroney in the Leigh Times (19th April), she claims that the local Green Party branch has a “tight focus” and goes on to infer that we have no policies […]
10th April 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
Southend Council has consistently failed bus users across the city. For decades we’ve seen fares getting more expensive, vital routes being slashed, and services becoming more infrequent.
Leigh Ward
14th March 2022 / 16th March 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
Local Green Party members joined residents in calling for an end to the “hostile environment” treatment of Refugees fleeing war and seeking asylum. The government’s approach in continuing to slam the door in the face of people in desperate need brings shame on our country.
