Greens Launch Bus Petition 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. Read more » Buses planning Transport
Greens Challenge Council on Cycling Infrastructure 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 […] Read more » Cycling planning Transport
Greens Challenge Council on EV Infrastructure 24th March 2022 / 28th 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 the impending crisis that will be publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in Southend-on-Sea. Currently, Southend has only 9.8 publicly-accessible charging points per 100,000 people. A paltry figure when […] Read more » Electric Vehicles planning Transport
Greens Publish Results of Cycling Survey 20th April 2021 / 20th April 2021 by James Vessey-Miller Read more » Cycling planning Roads Survey Transport
The High Cost of Parking in Southend 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. Read more » Air Pollution Cycling Parking planning Transport
SEEGP Comments on the ‘Fossetts for The People’ Campaign 23rd November 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller In the past few weeks, a new offshoot of the #SaveSouthendNHS campaign has been launched demanding that Southend Council build 400 new 'affordable', private rent, and social homes on the former NHS-owned land adjacent to the proposed Fossetts Farm developments. Read more » Campaigns planning
Residents Win Campaign Against Cliffslip Museum 18th October 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller While Southend Council has finally admitted that the Cliffs is not going to be the location for their "Thames Estuary Experience" Museum, it has not ruled out what will happen to the Cliff Gardens site. Read more » planning
Greens Respond to Proposed Southend Bypass 29th September 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller With the seemingly unanimous support of most Southend residents, Mr Courtenay seems to have hit the nail on the head with a wonderful and potentially election-winning idea... Or has he? Read more » planning
Greens Call Public Meeting over £55m Museum 24th September 2018 / 23rd May 2020 by James Vessey-Miller If in less than a year, the publicised cost of the project can increase by £15m, how long will it be before we reach the £80m threshold prophesied by SKIPP almost a decade ago? Read more » planning
SEEGP Comments on Planned Southend Eruv 19th October 2017 / 22nd May 2020 by The Southend and Westcliff Hebrew Congregation have submitted a planning application for an Eruv across a large area of Southend. While we recognise the potential positive attributes the Eruv garners our local Jewish community in way of access and mobility, we cannot support it. Read more » eruv planning
