THE THREE children’s centres facing the chop have been named as Darlinghurst in Leigh, Hamstel in Southend, and Shoebury Children’s Centre, in Shoebury. All three will close unless a way can be found to save the council £224,000 a year…. Read More ›
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The Budget 2013/14: How did YOUR Councillor vote?
The following Councillors are listed with their votes in respect of the CONSERVATIVE administration budget proposals, that were passed with 32 votes for, 16 against, 2 absent and 1 abstention. Named votes will be blogged in full this evening –… Read More ›
Southend Braced For Influx Of London Tenants: Echo Monday 28th Jan
The front page of today’s Echo carried the banner headline: ‘SOUTHEND BRACED FOR INFLUX OF LONDON TENANTS’, leading to the following article on page 5, following on from my article last week (EXCLUSIVE: London Councils Moving Tenants To Southend) “London… Read More ›
EXCLUSIVE: London Councils Moving Tenants To Southend
London Councils planning to move Housing Benefit claimants outside of the capital are now in talks with Southend landlords. As cuts in Housing Benefit budgets loom, many properties in London are becoming unaffordable, and properties in the seaside town at… Read More ›
Southend Council Tax Rises ‘A Stinging Rebuke’
Southend Borough Council’s latest budget is a “stinging rebuke” to Tory ministers and local MPs, according to Councillor Ian Gilbert, the leader of the Labour group on the LGC Council Of The Year 2012. Councillor Gilbert has spoken out after… Read More ›
“Concerned, Perturbed, Extremely Dissatisfied.” Southend Councils Letter to Royal Mail re Delivery Office Closures.
In a letter to Moya Greene, the Chief Executive of the Royal Mail Group, on the 6th of December, Rob Tinlin and the four Group leaders have expressed frustration with the way that the decisions regarding closure of local Post… Read More ›
Yellow Bellied Yellow Buddies: If You Don’t Stand For Something, You’ll Fall For Anything.
Yellow bellied yellow buddies. It seems every Tory minority administration needs them. Whether by coalition as demonstrated nationally, or abstention, as demonstrated locally. Southend Borough Council has become a Tory administration again. A minority administration, but a Tory administration nonetheless,… Read More ›
A Strong And Surging Ambush
I took great delight in reading the Echo’s preliminary analysis of the election results this morning, whereby they described the long-awaited loss of the Tory hold on the Council as a direct result of an ‘ambush by a strong Labour… Read More ›
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
Last night was a good night for the Labour party in Southend, and especially Julian Ware-Lane, new Councillor for Milton Ward, Anne Jones for Kursaal and Ian Gilbert triumphantly holding onto his seat in Victoria by hundreds of votes, despite… Read More ›
