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Coat of arms of Southend-on-Sea City Council Notes Originally granted to Southend-on-Sea County Borough Council on 1 & 2 January 1915. Transferred to Southend-on-Sea Borough Council on 21 May 1974. [25] Crest Issuant out of a mural crown Gules the mast of a ship proper flying therefrom a flag Argent charged with a cross throughout Gules. Escutcheon
Southend Civic Centre is a municipal building in Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The structure holds the chamber for Southend-on-Sea City Council and houses the council's offices. Originally the Civic Centre incorporated the whole development of municipal buildings located between Carnarvon Road and Southend Central Museum .
The Central Library and Focus Art Gallery are housed in the building. It was opened in September 2013 [1] following a relocation from the former building of Southend Central Library on Victoria Avenue which now houses the Beecroft Art Gallery. [2] Membership for the library is free. [3]
Southend is governed by Southend-on-Sea City Council, which is a unitary authority, performing the functions of both a county and district council. There is one civil parish within the city at Leigh-on-Sea , which has a Town Council that was established in 1996. [ 193 ]
The building was designed as a library by the councils architect, Patrick Burrough, as part of the new Southend Civic Centre.The Civic Centre would encompass a new police station, the courthouse, council offices and chamber, a new College and a Library on a site first purchased by the council in 1919 for a further education college, but had been reallocated as a town hall site in 1934.
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The council and corporation were replaced by Southend-on-Sea District Council and Essex County Council, which were established as shadow authorities in 1973. The borough's sewage system, that had been run by the county borough, was taken over by the newly formed Anglian Water Authority . [ 24 ]
Southend Corporation planned a new a Civic Centre which would encompass a new police station, the courthouse, council offices and chamber, a new College and a Library on a site first purchased by the council in 1919 for a further education college, but had been reallocated as a town hall site in 1934. The planned fire station for the site was ...