Southend City Council
21st December 2024 by simongittus
Green Party Councillor Richard Longstaff has successfully driven significant enhancements to Southend City Council's tree policy, with plans to increase the city’s tree canopy cover from 12% to at least 15%.
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Leigh Ward Southend City Council
13th October 2024 / 13th October 2024 by simongittus
Concerns are mounting over the continued decline of Southend’s urban tree population and the city’s tree canopy cover, which has fallen to around 12%, far below the minimum target of 15%.
Kursaal Ward Leigh Ward Southend City Council
23rd September 2024 / 12th October 2024 by simongittus
Residents on Leigh Hall Road (Leigh) and Ilfracombe Road (Kursaal) have breathed a sigh of relief after discovering tree removal notices on every tree last Tuesday, stating that they would be felled this coming Wednesday, giving just a week's notice.
Southend City Council West Leigh Ward
16th September 2024 / 12th October 2024 by simongittus
The South East Essex Green Party and local residents have voiced their “incredible disappointment” in Southend City Council after the Labour Council ignored a petition signed by hundreds of residents and cut down seven mature ash trees in Vernon Road. A petition was set up by resident and local Green activist, Simon Gittus, after he […]
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 […]
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 […]
Southend City Council Westborough Ward
17th August 2020 / 19th August 2020 by James Vessey-Miller
In late July 2019, following growing pressure from the Green Party, the Once Upon A Tree (Southend) campaign group, and residents, Cllr Carole Mulroney (Liberal Democrat – Cabinet member for Environment and Planning) announced a moratorium on the non-emergency felling of all street trees in Southend and announced that Southend Council will work with its […]
