We’ve seen the following message this evening, via a neighbourhood watch email. We understand it is from an officer at the District Council:
I thought that I should just let you know that I received a call from a resident in Hullbridge this afternoon.
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He said that a man knocked at his door and said that he was a surveyor from Rochford Council and that he was in the area carrying out surveys to see if people were entitled to grants for loft insulation and solar panels.
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When the homeowner asked for ID the man backed away and made his excuses to leave. He was wearing a hi-visibility tabard and badge saying surveyor, but nothing else.
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I told the homeowner that the Council were not undertaking any sort of survey and also suggested that he might contact Trading Standards at Chelmsford.
Thanks