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There has been a lot going on at our District Council including some senior management changes. The new chief executive, Dawn French, previously at Basildon Borough Council, joined on 29th …read more →
Both Town and District Councillors have been trying very hard to get the pot holes on Elm Grove in front of the car park, and the pot hole in the …read more →
I’ve been watching the Hoo-Haa going on at the moment about UDC wanting to remove parking from a mile of the Saffron Walden’s roads. Down the allotment, I’ve been asked “how do these things get decided?” and it’s a fair point. …read more →
All UDC councillors have 3k per year to distribute to good causes within their local communities. It comes from the ‘New Homes Bonus’ which the government pays to councils for …read more →
The Uttlesford Local Residential Parking Standards drawn up 6 years ago doesn’t mention tandem car parking. Presumably no-one in 2009 thought that layouts with parking in lines, with the inside …read more →
In October 2014, Countryside Properties hacked down part of a hedgerow on a public footpath running beside their Friars Place Takeley site. They had no right to remove these …read more →
In last week’s press the Conservative UDC leader asserted that R4U Councillors had played naïve protest politics with regard to the New Plan consultation document. If so then let us …read more →
At the previous council meeting there was nothing much to discuss or vote on. The other night was different – we had the big subjects of Essex devolution and the …read more →
Please cast your mind back to the days of the last conservative administration at UDC. The most important committee for the lives of all of us in Uttlesford, the Plan …read more →
I was delighted that following R4U’s call for an extraordinary Meeting of Uttlesford District Council to look urgently at the present refugee crisis, the Chair and Chief Executive acted swiftly …read more →