-
AllActivities Age Concern Anytime Fitness Gym Art Beauty Beer Of The Week Blog Business C2C Care Care Home Chalkwell Beach Charity Children Christmas Cinema City Status Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Cliffs Pavilion Review Cocktail Recipes College Community Competition Competitions Construction Coronation Coronavirus Covid 19 Dannielle Emery Design Easter Education Emma Smith Employment Emsella Chair Environment Essex Police Essex Police News Events Family Fun Fashion Festival Film Finance Fitness Food Food & Drink Football Fresh Face Pillow Company Gardening Hair & Beauty Halloween Harp Havens Hopsice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Havens Hospice Press Release Havens Hospices Havens Hospices Havens Hospices News Health & Beauty Health & Fitness Historicaleigh History Holidays Housing Indian Indirock Indirock Jubilee Karen Harvey Conran Kids Kids Blogs Kids Competitions Kids Reviews Lady McAdden Legal Legal Eagle Leigh Folk Festival Leigh Library Leigh On Sea Leigh On Sea Finds Leigh Road Leigh Striders Leigh Town Council Leigh Town Council Press Release Leigh on Sea Leigh on Sea Sounds Leigh on sea Folk Festival Leigh on sea Town Council Leigh on sea news Lifestyle Little Red Panto LoS Shop London London Southend Airport London Southend Airport Los Shop Marathon Melinda Giles Mortgage Angel blog Mortgages Motherofalloutings Mughal Dynasty Mughal Dynasty blog Music My Mortgage Angel MyLoS NHS News News Newsletter Offers Other Outfit Of The Week Palace Theatre Parenting Parking Picture Of The Week Pier Politics Press Release Professional Property Property Of The Week RSPCA Ray Morgan Re:loved Recipes Recycling Restaurant Restaurant Review Restaurants Review Roads Rotary Club Royal Hotel Royal Hotel Southend Royal Visit Schools Seafront Shopping Show & Music Reviews Show Review Show Reviews Show Up Productions Shows & Music Shows & Music Review Shows & Music Reviews Southend Southend Airport Southend Airport Press Release Southend Airport Press Release Southend Borough Council Press Release Southend City Council Southend City Council Southend City Council Blog Southend City Council News Southend City Council Press Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council Press Release Southend City Council blog Southend Council Press Release Southend Hospital Southend In Sight Southend In Sight Press Release Southend on Sea Southend on Sea City Council Press Release Southend on Sea City Council press release Southend on Sea city Council Press Release Southend on sea City Council Press Release Sport The Mortgage Mum Theatre Theatre Blog Theatre Review Theatre Review Theatre Reviews Transport Travel Village Green Volunteer Weddings What's On Whats On blog c2c news shopping
Transport strategy to improve funding opportunities
Southend-on-Sea City Council’s cabinet is set to endorse a transport strategy which will shape travel improvements and seek funding opportunities for the east of England.
Transport East is a sub-national transport body comprising Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock and was set up to provide a single voice for the future of transport in the eastern region. Department for Transport (DfT) requested Transport East prepared a transport strategy to set the direction for transport in the region up to 2050.
Transport East carried out an eight-week consultation on the strategy, and are now seeking approval from all highways authorities covered by the body, including Southend-on-Sea City Council.
The vision for the strategy is to create ‘a thriving eastern region with safe, efficient and net-zero transport networks advancing a future of inclusive and sustainable growth for decades to come.’ The strategy identifies four key priorities for the east that strongly reflect the views captured from across the region including Southend-on-Sea:
Decarbonising transport to Net Zero
Connecting growing towns and cities
Energising coastal and rural communities
Unlocking global gateways
Cllr Steven Wakefield, cabinet member for highways, transport and parking, said: “For Southend-on-Sea to truly achieve our goal of being the number one tourist destination in the UK, we need to ensure our transport strategy aligns with neighbouring authorities in the east of England so that Southend-on-Sea is accessible as possible.
"I am particularly pleased that one of the key priorities of the strategy is decarbonising transport to net zero, which aligns with our own policies and ambition of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. This is key for us unlocking our City’s potential.
“If cabinet endorse this report, we will be able to work closely with Transport East to bid for high-level funding opportunities from the Department for Transport, which will give our City a push in the right direction.”
The council’s cabinet will discuss the Transport East Strategy next week (agenda item 10).
ADD A COMMENT
Note: If comment section is not showing please log in to Facebook in another browser tab and refresh.