Simon Cross
Your Green Party candidate for Southend East & Rochford
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Simon Cross is the Green Party's General Election candidate for the Southend East & Rochford constituency.
Simon is a well-known local campaigner, and has represented the Green Party twice in parliamentary elections in the constituency; in 2015 and 2017.
Simon is a passionate representative of the natural environment and is known for his participation in many local campaigns to protect wild areas and natural assets, including recently the Holt Farm Oak tree and the trees threatened by the Shoeburyness Cantel development.
Simon is an advocate and champion of several Mental Health and SEND causes, and is a stalwart campaigner in the long-running Save Southend NHS group which successfully campaigned against the downgrading of Southend Hospital's A&E department.
More recently, Simon has taken a leading role in the efforts to save the Ironworks culture and community centre in Southend High Street.
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The latest news from the Green Party in Southend:
Greens Expose Council Using Glyphosate on Seafront
SHOCKING new video shows Southend Council spraying carcinogenic herbicides on Seafront. The Green Party is today releasing this footage taken on 23.11.22, which shows a council worker blanket-spraying the carcinogenic herbicide Glyphosate across the promenade. This area of the seafront by the attractions is very popular with families and dog walkers, and frequently sees young […]
Greens Get Heritage Pub Listed
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 […]
Council should “get on with the job” on EV charging; say Greens.
At the Southend Full Council meeting in March this year, South East Essex Green Party Coordinator James Vessey-Miller challenged Southend Council on its painfully-slow rollout of new council-owned EV charging infrastructure at public locations. Map showing EV charging locations in Southend – public and working (in blue) and private/not working (in red.) Data ©ZapMap: As […]
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