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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20th April 2021 / 20th April 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
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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.