There’s a planning application just in on land north of the Bricklayers Arms in Trenders Avenue, Rawreth. It’s for “Retention of Existing Mobile Buildings for Recreational Purposes in Connection with the Use of Site for/as Active Recreation (Football Pitches)”. Most people in the ward won’t even know where this is […]
This year one of the commonest complaints from residents has been about grafitti, and sometimes it’s been very difficult to get the District Council to act quickly (although they do say they will respond immediately to any particularly offensive grafitti). Apparently there’s supposed to be a “graffiti hotline” but it […]
Some councillors are concerned that central government might sometime force the District Council to build on some of our open spaces and green areas . Or perhaps we might get taken over by Southend or Basildon and they might want to develop our open spaces. There’s no obvious signs of […]
As mentioned below, the petition for a skateboarding facility in Wakering was discussed at a District Council committee meeting on Sept 30th. Credit where it’s due – Tory Councillor Barbara Wilkins made a very effective, almost passionate speech on behalf of the young people involved. Chris Black followed her by […]
Congratulations to veteran Lib Dem Geoff Williams , who has just won a County Council by-election in Basildon , winning a seat from the Tories. The voting was: Geoff Williams (Lib Dem) 1167 Conservatives 999 Labour 426
There’s been a planning application to build a wind turbine at “Sherbourne” – the property in Eastcheap that’s more or less inside Sweyne Park. We understand the idea is is to convert the domestic heating of this place from gas to windpower. The turbine will be about 9 metres high. […]
From October 1st the District Council will be enforcing the rules about on-street parking , doing a lot of things that traffic wardens have previously done before. You can expect the rules about yellow lines to be enforced rather more effectively now, so be warned! Find out more from the […]
Last Thursday the Audit Commission this week have issued a report on Rochford District Council – and they’ve given it a rating as “weak”. This has greatly upset the Tory Group, who like to give the impression that everything is wonderful and think the rating is unfair Actually they didn’t […]
Don’t get excited, the Tories haven’t done a U-turn and decided to build a swimming pool in Rayleigh. But a private applicant has got permission to build a small pool at Lubards Farm which seems to be suitable for swimming lessons etc. Chris expressed some concerns about the potentially tricky […]
195 people have sent a petition to the District Council , asking for a skateboarding facility in Great Wakering. The District Council will discuss it on September 30th. We guess that the discussion will revolve around two questions: Is there any money to provide one? Where could you put one […]
As you can imagine, we are great enthuasists for using the internet in council work. So we are really pleased that you can now look at the details of planning applications on the council’s website For example, you can can see the plans for the Wimpeys Housing scheme in Rawreth […]
Cllr Peter Webster , one of the ward members for Whitehouse Ward and the Vice-chairman of the District Council, was mentioned in Geoff’s Percival’s column in the Evening Echo on Sept 17th. The journalist was writing about Rochford’s “weak” rating by the Audit Commission and said: “I suspect part of […]
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