Leigh Ward Southend City Council West Leigh Ward
14th February 2025 / 13th February 2025 by simongittus
Simon Gittus, a Green Campaigner and Leigh resident, is pressing the City Council to make urgent improvements to the town’s bus infrastructure, arguing that better public transport is essential to easing congestion and cutting emissions.
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5th November 2024 by simongittus
Green Party activist Simon Gittus has called on the Labour-led council to tackle the pressing issue of speeding along Marine Parade in Leigh-on-Sea.
Southend City Council
31st October 2024 / 31st October 2024 by simongittus
Southend Green Party Group have reacted to news that the Labour Government is to increase the Bus fare cap by 50%.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Leigh Ward Local Elections Southend City Council Westborough Ward
20th April 2021 / 20th April 2021 by James Vessey-Miller
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.
11th December 2020 / 13th December 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
New research shows that dangerous air pollution in Southend has risen above pre-pandemic levels. Urgent action is required to protect residents.
