A Green City by the Sea

Despite the current crises, the Lib Dems in the Southend City Partnership are determined to continue investing in our environment and achieve our aims of a Green City by the Sea.

We are the only party in Southend that put the environment at the centre of their decision making across the board of services and are well placed to effect the changes needed.

Nationally we fight against the sewage spillages into our waters and locally too – we pull no punches with the water authorities in calling them to account. We are committed to improving our tree canopy and year on year we are planting more trees than any other previous administration. We have challenges with street trees but we are managing to balance this with issues relating to highways.

Innovative homes for residents

We are phasing out the use of pesticides and enhancing our biodiversity in our green areas and parkland by introducing new meadowlands and management regimes.

We already lead on innovative construction, both commercially and residentially. The Launchpad building on the Airport Business Park is an exemplar for the environmental construction in a business context. Also we’re building energy-efficient, innovative homes for residents who not only need housing but also cost-effective living.

by Cllr Carole Mullroney Cabinet Member for Environment, Culture and Tourism cllrmulroney@southend.gov.uk

Protecting our environment comes in many forms

We are investing £1.5M in climate change schemes across the spectrum of challenges – not just EVs, but greening our City with trees and planting, promoting biodiversity by protecting our wildlife, protecting our foreshore and working with others to bring forward innovative ideas and solutions. We’re also investing £1m in our major parks and smaller playgrounds, so vital to wellbeing and our natural world.

Protecting our environment comes in many forms. We’ve now stopped all waste going to landfill and will shortly be improving our EV charging point availability.

As a City by the Sea, our shoreline is incredibly important – not just for tourism, but its natural features that make it unique. We’re investing £500k towards this work and have already introduced nature-based protection solutions to our coastal areas.

The Lib Dems will continue to make sure that our voice in the Council makes Southend better.

As ever, if you have any issues I can help with, please contact me on cllrmulroney@southend.gov.uk