Our AGM this year is on the 17th October at 3.00pm at The Haven Community Hub in Hamlet Court Road. Please do try to get along if you can. This year we’ll be describing our important work on seafront heritage and how we can help to protect our city’s greatest heritage asset. We’ll also be talking about our other work this year and have invited the local police along to update us on local policing. As a member you can put forward a proposition and nominate an officer at the AGM, in accordance with the constitution. We also give notice here that there will be a nominal update ...

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The Beeline project hopes to bring nectar rich hanging baskets to Hamlet Court Road this summer, creating a Beeline super highway for bees, butterflies and other insects, supporting our local bio diversity and and the urban eco system. Not only will this support Wild Westcliff but it will bring beautiful hanging baskets to the road – in turn supporting our local high street. But it can only happen if the public votes for it as one of the Council’s ‘Big Sparks’ projects initiative and you must vote NOW. Voting closes on the 28th January so please give your support by ...

Once again we have made a written request to the Secretary of State to intervene to help save this important building at the heart of Hamlet Court Road. The building, seriously fire damaged in the spring of 2023, lost its roof and is open to the elements. Now the third winter is approaching and if the building is left open our concern is that irreparable damage will take place to the structure and the building could be lost. This would be nothing less than catastrophic for Hamlet Court Road and local conservation. The Secretary of State can make a direction that would enable the local ...

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For the first time in Southend-on-Sea and following application to Historic England by Milton Society, a garden has been Listed. The historic Shrubbery gardens beside Pier Hill, site of the historic and magical Never Never Land, are now listed after assessment by Historic England. Listed status has also been granted to the 1930s sun shelter that sits below the Westcliff Hotel. However, application for the wider cliff gardens dating from the Victorian period and extending up to the Cliffs Pavilion, was refused designation after a flawed assessment and then appeal by Milton Society. ...

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