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News published January 2020

• Help guide the future of former East Beach café site

  

  Published 23rd January 2020

  The Council would like to know what local people, visitors and businesses would like to see at the site of the former East Beach café which is owned by the council.

• Active travel initiative launched in south Essex

  

  Published 20th January 2020

  A new active travel challenge has been launched to encourage local residents to try alternative transport methods, such as walking, cycling, or using the bus or train.

• Council remembers victims for Holocaust Memorial Day

  

  Published 16th January 2020

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council will once again remember all those who perished or were affected by the Jewish Holocaust on National Holocaust Memorial Day.

• Proposed designs revealed for new pier trains

  

  Published 14th January 2020

  New Pier Train designs

• Member of Youth Parliament attends House of Commons and celebrates Make your Mark

  

  Published 13th January 2020

  On Monday 8 November 2019, Southend’s Member of Youth Parliament (MYP) attended a British Youth Council sitting at the House of Commons.

• Wheels in motion for new eco-friendly pier trains

  

  Published 13th January 2020

  New pier trains are on track to be installed in 2021 following the announcement that Severn Lamb have won the contract to design, construct and install them.

• Road and pavement repairs key part of proposed budget

  

  Published 10th January 2020

  Roads and pavements across the borough are set for resurfacing following the inclusion of a further £3.2m in the council’s proposed capital budget.

• Rochford Road northbound closure ahead of The Bell junction work

  

  Published 9th January 2020

  Access onto Rochford Road northbound from The Bell junction will be prohibited for 12 weeks as diversionary gas works are undertaken as part of The Bell junction improvement works.

• Major investment to be injected into Southend town centre in 2020

  

  Published 9th January 2020

  Major projects and initiatives to overhaul the open spaces in and around Southend town centre between now and April 2021 are underway.

• Draft budget focuses on most vulnerable

  

  Published 9th January 2020

  An extra £5.7m is set to be spent on children’s and adult social care in 2020/21.

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