22nd March 2025 / 22nd March 2025 by simongittus
Tricia Cowdrey, a local Green campaigner, is urging the Council to set a clear timeline for the removal of the pedestrian bridge over the Queensway following another recent suicide attempt.
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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
7th March 2021 / 7th March 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
Southend is the seventh most densely populated area in the UK outside London. The need for suitable modern housing is growing, but we need to make the most of our existing buildings, not expand the town into the green belt.
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.
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.
28th April 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; Mr Harland seems to have taken it literally.
