Southend Council In Numbers

- 45 parks and open spaces including 4 Green Flag award winning parks, nature reserves and woodlands.
- 1 eighteen hole golf course and 1 nine hole pitch and put
- 11 cricket squares, 11 bowling greens, 35 football pitches, 8 rugby pitches and 20 tennis courts
- 27 children's play areas
- 837 allotment plots
- 20,000 street trees
- 9.8 hectares of road side shrubs
- 90 bridges
- 110 traffic signal control junctions
- 450km of roads
- 900km of footways
- 20,000 pot holes repaired last year
- 7km of cycle tracks refurbished
- 2,327 footway/carriageway defects investigated last year
- 75,000 tonnes of waste collected each year with 38,000 tonnes recycled
- 16,000 garden waste customers
- 4,000 bulky waste collections each year
- 200,000 visits by residents each year to the Household Waste Recycling Centres
- 8,300 square metres of graffiti removed
- 26 public toilets
- 300 litter bins along our seafront