Local Elections
24th March 2022 / 24th March 2022 by James Vessey-Miller
This evening, our branch coordinator James Vessey-Miller attended the meeting of Southend City Council. Asking the council two written questions, James challenged the council over its dire track record on supporting cycling in Southend-on-Sea. He said; The results of a survey conducted by the Green Party in Southend in 2021 found that only 10% of […]
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Leigh Ward Local Elections Southend City Council Westborough Ward
20th April 2021 / 20th April 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
In August 2020, the South East Essex Green Party launched an open survey of the town's residents on their experiences of cycling in Southend. The survey, which has been open for eight months, saw avid bikers and non-cyclists alike contribute to the results. The data published today paints a promising picture of many would-be cyclists, […]
Kursaal Ward Milton Ward Prittlewell Ward Southend City Council Victoria Ward
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.
