Date: Thursday 10th November, 2022 Present: James Miller, Melissa Aylott, Jonathan Humphrys, Brian Ayling, Terry Coxall, Simon Jones, Rob...

Last month the council reported they needed to cut £16m from the capital budget to mitigate the projected overspending of £14m due to...

The Full Council Meeting gives Southend residents the chance to ask 2 questions to the Cabinet. I would urge everyone who has an issue or...

It’s just so hard to believe. Last month the Shareholder Board, Cabinet and the Place Security Committee all agreed to continue with...

Last month, a senior opposition councillor stated in a council meeting that a report to the police will be made regarding fraud and...

The cabinet were agreeing a report to remedy a financial blackhole, most of which, is of their own making. And in the Place Scrutiny...

There is much happening in the world at the moment, but that doesn't mean to say that the little things should be ignored. Rogue Jet...

You would think living in a city with ‘on-sea’ in the name might mean that its citizens might have been brought-up equivalent to Spartan...

At the Place Scrutiny Committee, a relatively peripheral matter was discussed concerning the Southchurch Park cricket pavilion. Relative...

There is no one else - just you, and we have to do it ourselves. Have you ever wondered why Southend high street is in the state it is...

Southend’s grammar schools transform, year after year, hundreds of young people equipped with the right mentality to face the world. ...

The Place Scrutiny meeting took place on 30th August with one of the items on the agenda being the Queensway development. This vote was...

For those uninitiated in the world of sewage, the reason there is, and will continue to be, sewage flowing out into Southend’s sea is...

I once, unknowingly and naively, took part in what I look back and brand as a political stunt arranged from the party I was in to the...

I went to Thorpe Bay High, as Southchurch High was known, from 92 to 97. The philosophy of the school was put as little effort in as...

Well, if anything says a city has started its long journey to stardom, it is a Wagamamas. This is a destination location. Put it...

The vast majority of people are kind, caring and compassionate - despite even knowing they are. They are decent, law-abiding citizens who...

I think the letters on Friday summed up everything that is wrong with Southend City Council. After 14 years as a Councillor, I was...

We should not allow £10m of our money to fund the Seaway project. Not because of the numerous reasons raised by councillors and Southend...

In the Full Council Meeting that took place this month weekly bin collections were discussed in view of referring it back to cabinet. The...