Resident faces £1,550 bill for failing to comply with ‘Untidy Site Notice’
A local resident faces a £1,550 bill following a legal dispute with the council regarding a fire-damaged property in Chalkwell.
A local resident faces a £1,550 bill following a legal dispute with the council regarding a fire-damaged property in Chalkwell.
A leading UK volunteering charity will be celebrating 10 years of supporting local families in Southend at an event in Southend.
No-one ever thinks their child could become embroiled with drugs, gangs and knives so an information event has been arranged to educate parents to see the signs.
Senior councillors are to consider proposals to help tackle anti-social behaviour, aggressive begging and street-drinking at a meeting of cabinet next week (Cabinet, 8 July, agenda item 3).
A local mentoring project will be celebrating the success of its pupils at an upcoming event in Southend.
The council’s new joint administration has confirmed its priorities for the future, including a new focus on housing, community safety, the environment, improving street lighting, roads and pavements and enhancing skills and apprenticeships available to local people (item 4 - cabinet, 25th June).
The new and improved pier entrance has officially opened its doors to the public following the completion of improvement works to the entrance of the iconic landmark.
Work to boost Southend town centre, including setting up a formal partnership to deliver it will be discussed by the council’s cabinet next week.
A property in Southend-on-Sea has been served a closure order following a multi-agency operation into drug related activity.
Temporary road closures are due to begin on Saturday 15 June near to The Bell junction to allow for traffic surveys to be completed.
A joint operation has led to 18,000 illegal cigarettes and 11kg of illegal rolling tobacco being seized from shops in Southend.
A record-number of students attended an apprenticeship event to find out about what opportunities Southend-on-Sea has to offer.
Southend-on-Sea Borough Council has appointed heritage experts, Purcell, to review and update the Conservation Area Appraisals for a number of the town’s Conservation Areas, to ensure they remain relevant and up-to-date.
Businesses and organisations across the south Essex region are being called on to encourage their employees, trainees and students to get on their bikes as part of Bike Week 2019. From 8 to 16 June, ForwardMotion is encouraging people to ‘Trial a Mile’ and travel one mile of their journey to work, education or training by bike.
A Rayleigh resident has pleaded guilty in court for failing to provide a copy of his Waste Transfer Licence after a large pile of waste was dumped outside a charity shop in Leigh-on-Sea.
With Southend set to be hotter than Ibiza this weekend, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council and its partners are again enacting “Operation Heatwave”.
New water quality tests carried at Leigh Bell Wharf are showing continued improvement, with only very low levels of bacteria detected in the latest results.
The council’s parks team is urging residents to be vigilant after brazen thieves have stolen over 116 shrub plants from Priory Park over the last two weeks.
Plans have been formally agreed to address concerns relating to the quality of services delivered to children in Southend-on-Sea with special educational needs and disabilities.
Extra funding has been given by central Government to help homeless people within Southend-on-Sea.
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