The application for the 600+ homes in Ashingdon (SER8) will be coming back to the development committee sometime in the future after it was deferred at the last meeting. Councillors have now received some legal guidance on the matters (which is secret) and will have to consider that at the […]
Liberal Democrat Party Chairman Steve Tellis reports… Just had the Astra Zeneca coved jab at our beautiful Mill Hall. NHS staff ran the show super efficiently and to the highest standard. Cannot speak highly enough of them! The jab itself is so painless you couldn’t help thinking have I really […]
This week the development committee met to decide on the following item amongst others. APPLICATION TO VARY THE EXISTING SECTION 106 AGREEMENT DATED 18 JANUARY 2017 TO PLANNING CONSENT 14/00813/OUT BY WAY OF MODIFICATION TO THE WORDING OF PARAGRAPH 4.3.3 TO ALLOW FOR AN EXTENDED TIMESCALE IN WHICH TO DELIVER […]
The Focus team has received unconfirmed reports, that Clarks Shoes will be leaving Rayleigh High Street. It’s another devastating blow for the High Street in Rayleigh and another big name to be packing up shop. Despite several warnings, Rochford District Council has not acted to attempt to stem the loss […]
Today we say goodbye to Dorothy Perkins & Burtons from Rayleigh High Street as it has been sold to an online retailer as part of the collapse of the Arcadia Group. With the loss of 2450 jobs, the big names disappearing from our High Streets are coming thick and fast. […]
As the Prime Minister sets out the plans for the road to freedom are you feeling confident that this will be the right path to take?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps been in lockdown ? ) then you will have probably heard about the plans to demolish the Mill Hall as part of Rochford District Councils wider ‘asset strategy programme’. The Lib Dems were excluded from the working group on this project […]
There’s been inclimate weather so Rochford District Council says…. Cancellation of waste collections Due to severe weather, all waste collections have been suspended until further notice, we are assessing the roads on a daily basis and will keep you updated. Next week: We will be aiming to collect next weeks refuse (purple […]
It seems the Mill Hall in Rayleigh is not yet past its sell by date after it was described as ‘dire’ by one Conservative Councillor. The NHS will be opening it as an important vaccine centre for the Covid. Despite its use as a vaccine centre the programme to demolish […]
…but not at Rochford District Council. Despite nearly a year of raising the issue of the poor phone system at Rochford District Council it appears there could be a voice at the end of the phone line this week. RDC’s new phone system is due to go live this week […]
Councillor Ian Ward, Portfolio Holder for Planning found himself under scrutiny from Managing Director, Shaun Scrutton in a standards complaint filed in December 2019. The Council often takes a long time to resolve standards complaints and this one seems to have taken quite some time to resolve. A formal investigation […]
Craig is one of the founding members of Rochford Financial Hub C.I.C. a not for profit organisation (Community Interest Company), which aims to bring access to local banking back to Rochford. All of Rochford and Hockley’s banks having closed has left many people, especially the elderly, without easy access to […]
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