Greens’ Tree Motion Passed at SCC 8th September 2023 by James Vessey-Miller At the Full Council meeting of 7th September 2023, Green Party City Councillor Richard Longstaff proposed a motion to shake up the way Southend Council manages our City’s Trees. Local residents have long dispaired at the City Council’s brutal “cut before complaint” approach to tree management, which has led to the unnecessary and premature removal […] Read more » planning Trees
Council Continues Devastating Tree-Felling in Southend 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 […] Read more » planning Trees
Greens Get Heritage Pub Listed 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 […] Read more » planning
Council should “get on with the job” on EV charging; say Greens. 11th July 2022 / 11th July 2022 by James Vessey-Miller Read more » Electric Vehicles planning
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
