Media enquiries

Contact us

Our communications teams deal with media enquiries 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Our normal working hours are 8:45am to 5:15pm Monday to Friday.

Journalists and media professionals should contact us in office hours by emailing media@southend.gov.uk. We will respond as soon as we are able. You can also call us during office hours on 01702 212006.

To contact us out-of-hours, please call 07818 580319.

The communications team should be the first point of contact for all media enquiries. We will be pleased to assist you and we will work as hard as possible to fit around your deadlines.

Any Freedom of Information Act requests should be sent to our FOI team.

For current news and events see our news centre.

Prittlewell Prince enquiries

For information and images on the Prittlewell Prince, please see our Tumblr blog.

Filming in Southend-on-Sea

Full details about the filming opportunities, charges, how you apply for filming permission in Southend can be found on our filming in Southend-on-Sea page.

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For a full list of our social media channels see our social media page.

Contact the press office

Telephone: Tel: 01702 215939

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