YOUR COUNCILLORS

Cllr Mr John Barber DL - 01992 577198 Chairman of the Council Chairman – Neighbourhood Plan Committee PARISH COUNCIL Cllr Ms Ann Pegrum - 01992 572133 Vice Chairman of the Council Created in 1896 Chairman – Planning Committee Vice Chairman – Neighbourhood Plan Committee

Cllr Mr David Buckle - 01992 890591

Cllr Ms Jean Eldridge – 07946 506410

Cllr Mrs Ann Jones - 01992 576929 Vice Chairman – Planning Committee NEWSLETTER

Cllr Miss Pat Jones - 01992 560184 AUTUMN 2018 Chairman – Playground Committee

Cllr Mrs Shalini Sharma - 01279 491911 Vice Chairman – Playground Committee

CLERK TO THE COUNCIL Mrs Val Evans PSLCC 01992 570870 [email protected] Elections for Parish Councillors take place ***** on 2 May 2019 USEFUL NUMBERS Start thinking about standing NOW POLICE - Non-Emergency 101 Emergency 999

CITIZENS ADVICE Do you have a burning issue that you 03444 770 808 Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm want to resolve or a new idea for the COMMUNITY TRANSPORT 01992 579556 parish community?

EPPING FOREST DISTRICT COUNCIL The Council meets 6 times a year. 01992 564000 www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk CONTENTS FLY TIPPING - 01992 564608 (Office hours) There are 3 Committees: Planning, 01992 564000 (Out of office hours, main number) Allotments Playground, Neighbourhood Plan COUNTY COUNCIL Remembrance Sunday 0345 743 0430 www.essex.gov.uk [email protected] Ask any Councillor for further details Litter HIGHWAYS - to report a problem From 0345 603 7631 https://www.essexhighways.org/transport-and-roads/tell-us/problem-check.aspx Election Information is available from Parish Council Meetings Parish Councillor Responsibilities DISTRICT COUNCILLOR Council Cllr Mrs Lynn Hughes – 01279 793854 Elections 2019 http://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/index.php/your- COUNTY COUNCILLOR Your Councillors Cllr Mr Anthony Jackson – 0333 013 2265 council/elections-and-voting Useful Numbers MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT Rt Hon Dame Eleanor Laing MP – 020 8508 6608

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PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS ALLOTMENTS  LITTER Everyone is welcome to attend. Meetings are There’s been a good harvest on the allotments There are regular litter picks throughout the parish by EFDC but please can we all dispose of our held in the Chapel, normally starting at 7.00pm despite the extremes of weather. own rubbish either by taking it home or using unless preceded by a Planning Committee. Come and join us to prepare your plot for next the litter bins in the area – on the Village Green, Next scheduled meetings – year and maybe something for this. Fresh air, green by the Chapel and pond, in the Playground Monday 19 November 2018 productive exercise and a water supply! (not dog waste). Monday 21 January 2019 Rent: half plot £18, full plot £36 A reminder yet again to pick up after your dog Monday 18 March 2019 Deposit: £50 half plot, £100 full plot; particularly in the darker mornings and evenings Monday 20 May 2019 (Annual) returned if plot is left in a good condition. when in it is more difficult for people of all ages to avoid. Poo bins are for dog waste only. Committees meet when there is business. The Contact the Clerk for further details – Planning Committee comments on applications. 01992 570870 [email protected] No excuse unhealthy unhygienic unlawful Check website for details or contact the Clerk 01992 570870

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As the autumn nights draw in the tell-tale signs of the Parish Councillor Responsibilities empty house become more apparent. REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY Allotment Gardens & Millennium Garden As this year is the centenary of the end of The Great FACT: Most burglars will prefer to target the empty Cllrs Barber, Buckle and A Jones

War (World War 1) we are working with the Church for a house unseen and avoid any confrontation. Broadband - Cllrs Eldridge and Sharma special act of remembrance. Times of the services and As the days get shorter if you work away from home, Burial Ground - Cllrs A Jones and Pegrum remembrance at the War Memorial in the Burial Ground or even pop out to get the children from school by the are to be confirmed as we write but it is anticipated that time you return home it may already be dark. A house Community Safety Liaison we will be at the War Memorial in time for the 2 minutes Cllrs Eldridge and P Jones in darkness says no one is in especially if your silence at 11am on 11 November. Check All Saints neighbour’s houses either side have lights on and Emergency Planning - Cllr Buckle

Epping Upland website/facebook page for precise details. show other signs of being occupied. If you back onto Footpaths, Open Spaces, Village Green Do join us and 414 (Epping & North Weald) Squadron open farmland or have parking areas or footpaths to Cllrs A Jones, P Jones and Pegrum ATC on this special day. side or rear this may be even more apparent. Highways - Cllrs Eldridge and A Jones Create the “Illusion of Occupancy”, when its dark Local Councils’ Liaison make your home look like you are in. Leave lights on Cllrs Buckle and Sharma or put them on timers or daylight sensors to come on

when it gets dark. Remember though no one lives in Passenger Transport the hall or on the landing so if you leave these lights Cllrs Buckle and Sharma on supplement these with lights on in rooms that you would normally occupy at that time of day i.e. lounge ELECTIONS 2019 and kitchen. A carefully placed imitation TV or “Fake We have been working for some time with the War TV” can further add to that illusion of occupancy by Make sure your part of the parish is Memorials Trust to have maintenance carried out on the making it look like the television is on. Some burglars represented. The Parish is not warded War Memorial and to add an inscription for Pioneer may also listen at windows or letterboxes for signs of but the main named areas are - Ernest William Woollard who died in April 1918. In order activity, so consider leaving a radio on within your Copped Hall Estate to preserve the memorial and obtain funding we have to home. Epping Green do things in a particular way which has regrettably taken Don’t forget the outside of your property too, if Epping Long Green much longer than we expected. We hope to have some burglars see that it is lit they are less likely to Epping Upland of the work done by Remembrance Sunday and certainly approach for fear of being seen. High Road Epping (part) by the end of the year. Leave lights on, with energy efficient bulbs it costs Jacks Hatch very little now days and yet may save you lots! Rye Hill

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