The myopia of Middle-Class Liberals #WhatNoChaiLatte

Hybrid working and the creative industries. It’s just so great. Ya?

Follow Southend-On-Sea Pier to the Land of Milk, Honey and Hybrid Working…

Southend Borough Council has published it’s strategic plan — Or New Local Plan — for the borough. It’s been lurking in the municipal cupboard since 2019 but Covid-19 punted it into the long grass, however, it’s back and it makes for interesting reading:

https://yoursay.southend.gov.uk/southend-new-local-plan

It’s all about regeneration of Southend-on-Sea post-Covid-19 (Whenever that is) and looks at the current state of play in the borough and views the future with aspirational eyes. It has good analysis and talks about the usual problems. Wealth. Health, Housing and Employment. It even goes so far as to quote the ‘Principles of sustainable development — United Nations in 1992’.

If you go to the relevant website. It no longer exists: https://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/agenda21toc.htm

However you can read more here: https://www.un.org/en/development/devagenda/sustainable.shtml

Eradicating poverty, is top of the list. The irony of quoting a 30 year old document putting poverty as its number one issue, didn’t escape…