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On a recent walk between Sheering and been adapted into moated manor houses, Newman’s End, looking across at the Junction whilst others were abandoned and replaced 7a works, I was reminded of some research by manor houses of a more comfortable and on the Ringwork at Sheering Hall on the domestic nature. Timber castles varied Sheering website. It seemed a timely addition greatly in size with some being massive to Sheering News. (Editor) constructions clearly deserving the term castle, whilst others were small mounds for Sheering Hall Ringwork minor knights. These small mottes are called The earliest habitation we know of in ‘castles’ but this could be considered a rather Sheering is the Eleventh Century ringwork or loose use of the term. ring motte in the grounds of Sheering Hall. The remaining banks and ditches are partly Remains obscured by later building and landscape The north east arc is overlaid by Sheering gardening. This site has also been described Hall and obliterated by landscape gardening. as a Timber Castle. The west and south west arcs survive as a strong rampart about one metre in height above the interior with an outer ditch 4.5 metres deep from the top of the rampart. The ditch around the west side was, and still is, dry but on the south and east arcs there was a wet moat formed by diverting the Pincey Brook around the base of the rampart and retained by a bank 2 metres high on the south of the ringwork. This bay has been breached and the moat is dry. The interior of the work must have measured about 70 metres in diameter but it contains no evidence on the surface of interior buildings.
Timber Castles These are the earthwork and timber castles of the motte and bailey or ringwork form which were the vast majority of castles of the early conquest period, of the Marches in the 11th and 12th centuries and of the period during the reign of Stephen known as the Anarchy. They were generally fairly short lived, although some such castles survived for centuries, with the timber buildings and defences being replaced on occasions sometimes in timber and sometimes in masonry Some of the smaller low mottes may have (Photo: Andrew Tivenan) 2 In This Edition St Clare Hospice 10K; Compassionate Neighbours 19 Diary 3 Essex Police Update 20 Coronovirus Helplines 3 Junction 7A Update 22 Asymptomatic Covid Test 3 Recycling & Waste 24 Robert Halfon 5 Libraries Update 25 Parish Council News 6 Take a Bag for a Walk! 26 Parish Council Membership 7 Vicar’s Reflection 27 WI; Tuesday Teas, Sheering -School 8 Useful Information Back Cover Parish Council Website Membership 9 Please let us have letters, Essex Explorer 9 articles and photos for the next edition of Sheering A girl of Many parts - Poem 10 News promptly by Hedges and Ditches 12 Wednesday 1 July 2021. Friends of St Mary’s 14 Stories from the Grave: Albert French MM; Albert French (d.1915) & John Henry Crump GM 16 Hundred Parishes Society - Guildhalls 18 Walking in Essex 18 3 DIARY CHEAPEST FARES IN AREA PLEASE REFER TO INDIVIDUAL ORGANISATIONS FOR STARTING DATES SADLERS TAXIS DAILY
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George Harding 07843 777576 ghplant.co.uk 5 Dear residents, the infection rate and get the virus under control - allowing the vaccine roll out to be a With every vaccine administered we move success. closer to beating the virus and I would like to pay tribute to everyone who has done so much Sheering has come together to beat the over the past year. coronavirus and with each passing day and each vaccine administered, we are closer to First, to everyone who has been involved in doing just that. Though our community will be the vaccine roll out locally, from the volunteers changed by this experience, I believe that we and marshalls, to the nurses, doctors and all will be stronger and better than ever before. NHS staff. It has been so inspiring to see your work, day in and day out, bringing hope to our I will continue to work hard for Sheering to community after a year that none of us could secure even more support for residents and have imagined. businesses on top of the £200 million financial package from the Government that has Second, to our NHS staff. All of us know that already helped residents and businesses. they have gone above and beyond to look after residents in the darkest days and our I would also like to take this opportunity to thanks will never be able to match their work. update you on my work to tackle speeding in Sheering. I know that this is a great concern to Third, my sincere thanks go to every key many residents, and I am working with local worker: the refuse workers, supermarket and councillors, the police and Essex County shop workers, delivery drivers, teachers and Council to tackle these issues once and for all. support staff, care workers, pharmacy staff, If you have any specific areas of concern, bus drivers, volunteers and the many others please do not hesitate to contact me. who have put their health at risk to keep our community moving. Wishing you every possible good wish and safety at this time, we are nearing the end. Fourth, a huge thank you to every resident for the sacrifices you have made to drive down Robert 6 Parish Council News be that NEPP will extend this delay period Since my last report in the December Issue of until beyond 21st June when it is hoped all Sheering News, the Parish Council has met restrictions are lifted and some form of only once and that was in December as normality returns. Any information received restrictions allowed. January would normally from NEPP in this respect will be included in see the Parish Council meeting twice, once Sheering News as appropriate and added to for a Precept Meeting in early January and the Parish Council website. again for a normal Council Meeting late in January. Due to the imposed lockdown, Park Bench neither meeting took place. My report in the December issue of Sheering In terms of the Precept meeting, to enable us News, gave details of one of the benches in to meet the required submission date for our the Village recreation ground having been Precept figure, Councillors agreed a Precept destroyed. I am pleased to report that the figure of £43,000, for the year 2021/2022 bench has now been replaced by those which matched the figure submitted and responsible at no cost to the Parish Council approved for year 2020/2021. At the time of and has been secured in position. The producing this report, this figure has yet to be replacement however took longer than approved by EFDC. expected, with the bench originally offered The intention, once the figure is approved and and delivered being of a lesser quality and restrictions permit, is to have a Precept smaller size than that of the demolished Meeting to enable the agreed figure to be bench. Councillor Alan Jones spent a great allocated across various sections of Parish deal of time dealing with this and bringing the Council expenditure which we hope could be whole issue to a satisfactory conclusion. during April. It was also during this time that Alan and his With the road map recently announced by the wife contracted the Covid Virus shortly after Prime Minister for coming out of the current Christmas, with Alan’s condition deteriorating Lockdown, it is anticipated that face to face at one stage to a level requiring the attention Council Meetings can resume in May which of paramedics. I am very pleased to advise will coincide with the start of the new Council that both have made a complete recovery and year. However, in the absence of formal continue to be well. Council meetings, Councillors have continued to be active on a number of issues and I take Pot Holes this opportunity of updating you as follows. With the winter weather conditions, this has become an increasing problem with the Lower Sheering Parking Parish Council receiving a number of Since the submission of the restricted parking complaints from some residents, particularly scheme, and the result of the subsequent in respect of the serious condition of the road survey of residents preferences, further adjacent to the railway crossing. The issue dialogue with NEPP (North Essex Parking was reported a number of times to Essex Partnership) has taken place not only by the Highways who finally carried out repairs on 4 Parish Council but also by some residents. February. Unfortunately, the repairs were only On 26 December, (yes Boxing Day), NEPP temporary and with the following snow and advised that it was clear that a pause in icy conditions requiring the roads to be proceedings is the safest way to take a breath salted, the repairs soon broke away, leaving or two, before discussing in more detail at a the road in as bad a condition as before the later date, while observing the area in the repairs. We now await a date for the works to intervening period. be carried out in a proper workmanlike It is suggested that a 6 month delay will give manner that will be long lasting. NEPP the chance to observe what actually happens rather than the expectation of what Rural Drainage might happen, following which they should be With the period of extreme wet weather, some able to get a better idea of how to proceed. roads within the Parish became flooded, in However, with the continuation of the work particular parts of Church Lane and the from home directive from Government country section of Sheering Lower Road. One together with the periods of Lockdown we of the main causes of this problem would have endured since the survey, the commuter appear to be the lack of general maintenance parking situation has been somewhat different by land owners and farmers on ditches to the norm previously experienced . It may running alongside our roads. Councillor 7 Lesley Paine has been researching where the Parish Councillors responsibility for maintenance of these water Rodney Northwood - Chairman courses rests, and has already contacted Essex County Council in their capacity of a 01279 724514 Lead Local Flood Authority enquiring what [email protected] action can be taken to improve these water Richard Morgan - Vice Chairman courses and by whom, particularly under the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 and 01279 731243 the Flood Risk Regulations 2009. Although an Bill Bedford 01279 734229 acknowledgement of our concerns has been [email protected] received, we await further detail on what action Mick Bull 07801137991 can be taken in terms of improvement of the current situation. [email protected] In addition to the flooding problems, the recent Judy Christmas 01279 734995 extreme cold spell caused difficulties as a [email protected] result of the snow and ice. I do therefore record the Parish Council’s thanks and Alan Jones 01279 734747 appreciation to Councillor Jones and our [email protected] handyman Ken Roberts who, during these Mike Hayter 01279 734211 difficult days, were engaged in salt spreading in both Sheering Village and Lower Sheering [email protected] to footpaths to assist the many walkers out and 07973 941987 about for their daily exercise during the Neil Marsden 01279 734335 current lockdown period. We are told that there is light at the end of this [email protected] long and dark tunnel we have all experienced. Lesley Paine 07969 855316 We are also told that “it is not over yet,” so [email protected] stay safe and keep well and lets hope we can all look forward to an enjoyable Summer. Peter Rust 01279 734881 Rodney Northwood [email protected] Margaret Whitfield 01279 722552 Chairman Sheering Parish Council 07722 327864
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Parish Council meetings are open to any County Councillor Sheering resident. Time is set aside for public participation to discuss any parish problem at Anthony Jackson the regular monthly meetings. Essex County Council, County Hall, Duke Please refer to the new Parish Council Street, Chelmsford CM1 1LX website for dates of meetings. cllr. [email protected] e-voice.org.uk/sheering-parish-council/ 8 for a speaker, followed by food Sheering CE Primary School and drink. March 2021 We have missed our social The Autumn term began very contact, as we are sure you positively with the return of all WI have also, and how much it children in September. We We hope to be means to all of us to get out of were so pleased to finally meet back to our our homes and meet up with our Reception children who usual monthly others. We would love you to settled in very quickly. Despite meetings on the come along to our meetings as our routines being a bit 2nd Tuesday of a guest or to join as a member. different (the classes are not the month in We will probably start back allowed to mix at all so our Village Hall as soon as the with a social evening with collective worship and lunches restrictions are lifted and a nibbles and drinks, have a chat all happen in the classrooms) group can meet. and put our heads together to the learning continued and the We met three times in 2020. In plan 2021 as soon as we can – children were beginning to January our speaker was Ivan hopefully in July of this year. make rapid progress after Cooper on the history of Our village hall needs the such a long time out of school. Hatfield Heath Mills. We bookings and we cannot wait With the safety measures we welcomed Vanessa Hale from to meet together after being in put in place to help prevent Wiltshire Farm Foods in lockdown with no socialising. the spread of COVID19, e.g. February when we enjoyed We will hope to put our everyone wearing visors, tasters. She explained that the agenda for 2021 in the next having our temperature taken meals are very nutritious and edition of Sheering News. before coming in to the can be adjusted for customers Contacts: building, hand washing with special diets. Dr Sheila President - Sheena Pike stations etc, we did not have Henderson from the friends of 01279 734442 any cases of coronavirus… Rivers Hospital Jacobs Neuro Members Rep - Irene Harriss until the last week of term just Centre visited in March and 01279 734334 before Christmas. The school talked about the work and care Secretary - Barbara Barker had to be closed for the last that goes on there. 01279 734354 week of term and we switched We then had to cancel other to Home-Learning from that speakers and social events. Tuesday Teas point. Thankfully, the children One of our social events would We hope to be meeting this and staff who were unwell with have been to celebrate year as soon as restrictions COVID19 are fully recovered. Sheering WI’s Centenary. Yes, allow. We meet in the Church In January, we were ready to we have been going for 100 Room every Tuesday at 2.30 come back to school, but with years! for tea or coffee, homemade the rapidly changing situation We usually also have a cake and a chat. The regulars with coronavirus, schools were summer luncheon in July, tell me they have missed our shut and we switched to Home sometimes a trip out in August chats but especially the cake. -Learning. Collective Worship and a pub lunch at Christmas. Please pop in any Tuesday if happened through Teams We also have a Group Meeting you are walking past and fancy (online) every morning and the once a year when we meet up a cuppa. teachers taught live lessons with three other local villages Irene Harriss 01279 734334 through Teams each day. Although we missed seeing the children in school, it was JOHN MILES & SON lovely to see them and their Tyre & Exhaust Centre parents every day.
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She was a girl of many parts. And soon a metal man stood by He’d made her up in fits and starts. of long brass limbs and blue glass eye. Her head a saucepan medium size He was more solid, somewhat bigger, in which two holes for marble eyes. most masculine of face and figure. Two metal ears were welded on; His feet were long and rather a wide curved mouth where red pointed paint shone. with legs built to be double-jointed. He’d put a lead pipe through the Then satisfied, he stood the two centre together then went off to do that he’d forced through so it could his other chores. The two alone enter checked round that they were on the metal drum - to be her chest their own. and rounded tum - and this would Then he went down on bended rest knee upon two pipes of burnished steel. and said, “My love from what I see Alas no knees! She could not kneel. you are my creature of the night. He moulded feet on which to stand, For me this is love at first sight.” arms at her side each with a hand. When morning came their maker found He glued some hair upon her head - the two collapsed upon the ground. a wig it was of brightest red. He put them both back in their places He fixed the limbs in such a way and saw big smiles upon their faces. that they could move and she would sway “My, my,” he said and shook his head, from side to side as in a dance “I’m sure his mouth was not that red.” and throw around her female glance. His two inventions twitched nearby Then as he built her counterpart and each one winked a glassy eye. his skill developed to an art. Adrienne Tinn
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01279 734229 12 Hedges and Ditches beautifully maintained and add to the attraction of the Heath as we walk or drive through. During recent months, restricted to walking locally, we have become more aware of our environment and the beautiful countryside surrounding Sheering. However, heavy rain during the winter with high footfall and traffic on the rural roads and footpaths has meant that there are signs of wear and tear for which we must take responsibility. Local farmers are only too aware of their ‘riparian responsibilities’. I had never heard this word used so I looked it up on the Epping Forest website. I was surprised to learn that landowners are responsible for maintenance of areas of ditches and ponds within and adjacent to their properties even if they do not own them. Pincey Brook has flooded several times this winter and has brought piles of plastic rubbish downstream and deposited it on the banks as the water has dropped. Would anyone volunteer to help clear it so we can all enjoy the fields again? In Sheering we are fortunate to have areas of ancient hedgerows with many varieties of plants including damsons, sloes (blackthorn), dog roses, crab apples and hawthorn. Over the years they have diminished due to clearance for larger fields and ease of automated machinery use. Disease has been killing trees with Dutch Elm disease affecting several and now Ash dieback is taking its toll. We so frequently see flooded roads especially The government now intends to promote in Lower Sheering, but also areas in Sheering replanting of hedgerows and woodland to village. Our ancestors had a system for dealing encourage wildlife. Sheering Parish has the with this and installed a series of drainage opportunity to obtain up to 200 free trees to ditches and ponds some of which are now in form areas of planting if we can identify culverts under front gardens or remain along appropriate places. Trees and hedges roadsides. These need maintenance and are counteract the effects of our busy roads the responsibility of the absorbing the small particles so local landowners. Many harmful to our lungs. Planting a are overgrown and are small-leafed hedge such as often considered by Cotoneaster at the front of your vandals as ripe for fly house can help filter this material tipping. and reduce noise pollution. Maybe As you probably realise, we should plant a hedge outside our EFDC clears this when village school to shield the children reported, but only on the playing outside? highway, not on private Please respect our countryside and land or in ditches which footpaths. Better weather is now they do not regard as part coming, and we must care for our of the highway. environment by sticking to the Would anyone be happy to footpaths, taking our rubbish home volunteer to help clear our local ditches and and not trampling or riding motorbikes across ponds and get them operating properly to form the farmers’ crops as they are supplying our a more attractive environment for us all? food! Hatfield Heath has a series of ponds dealing Lesley Paine with their excess flood water. They are 13
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Mary’s plus grants, we Stortford, Herts CM22 7NE 16 Stories from The Grave of his note books. It told the story how his grandfather Albert French had won the Military Medal in the First World War. Since 2018 I became part of the churchyard Apparently four wounded men had been maintenance group that I refer to as the trapped in a shell "Happy Loppers" organised by hole for much of Natalie Cracknell who once a the day and had month spend some time mowing been crying out in the grass, cutting the hedges and pain. When tidying up around the graves, darkness fell although with the current lockdown Albert crawled out we haven't worked since before into no man's land Christmas. I have got the job of under fire and got tidying up some of the most the men back to overgrown graves but before I the safety of the actually started my work I had a Allied trenches, walk round the churchyard to see one of whom was which graves I should tackle and his Commanding thought that the set of the graves Officer. around the southern entrance to the church should initially receive On Albert's return my attention. The story of the home injured in Pavitt graves appeared in Lesley 1917 his medal Paine's article in the last edition of was sent to him the Sheering News through the post However there were two graves Albert French MM and as he had some distance from the church seven or eight that did attract my attention as children at they were beautifully maintained the time, he but were obviously the resting was places of a couple of war heroes expecting his that made me wonder how they back pay. On came by their medals. One of opening the these graves was that of Albert small French who won the Military package, he Medal in the First World War. He was so was born sometime in 1876 and disappointed after leaving school, according and angered to the 1911 census, worked as a rather than maltster’s labourer and was pleased, in married to Beatrice French with there being five children, living in Sheering no pay but Street. just the medal. "What is the use of a bloody He enlisted as private no 17348 in the 6th medal when we need money to feed Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment on or ourselves and that won't bring back home any about 30th September 1914 at the age of 38. of the boys now dead" he said to his surprised Albert arrived in France on 11th December wife and in disgust hurled the medal across 1915 and he was gazetted as having been the room with such force that it became awarded a Military Medal on 18th July 1917. embedded high into the wooden parlour door After the war it is believed he worked for frame where it remained until Albert's death Walter Lawrence building company in Lower on the 7th December 1938! Albert's medals Sheering, which initially is all the information I are now in the possession of Albert's had about him. Grandson, John Cherisy French whose By chance in carrying out an entirely second Christian name is after the place different task for our Rector Dawn, who had where Albert won his medal and Clive Enders asked me to go through a box of papers that box of papers are also in the safe keeping had been left to the church by a deceased with a Granddaughter Patricia Banks (née parishioner, Clive Enders, I came across one French).
17 September 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres on 17th December 1915 and is buried at La Brigwal war cemetery and his name appears on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
The other grave that attracted my attention was that of John Henry Crump GM, which
However that was not the end of the story since I noticed that an Albert French appears on the village War Memorial - how come a man whose grave is in the local churchyard made me wonder how come he won his who had died twenty years after the war's end George Medal in 1941. had his name on the memorial. After extensive local research by Lesley Again, thanks to some extensive research by Paine and by Nigel Lutt of the Bedfordshire Lesley Paine it appears that John was a Regimental Museum the answer is that there police constable in London during the were two Albert Frenchs who lived in Second World War in which a number of Sheering and went off to fight in the war, one policemen received a GM for dealing with who survived having won the Military Medal unexploded bombs or extricating people from and the other who died in action on 17th very unstable buildings following air raids etc. December 1915. John, who was born on 24th March 1914, The one that died in action was an Albert carried out two acts of great bravery first on French, the 24th September 1941 when at youngest son of 1.15 am in the morning he Henry and Alice rescued an elderly woman from a Mary French of demolished house whilst off duty Ivy Cottage and at great risk to himself. Then Sheering born on 26th September 1941 at 22nd March 10.30pm he rescued a woman 1895. He from flats where there was great worked as a danger of further falling masonry. porter on the At the time he lived in London and Great Eastern as his grave is well tended it Railway and suggests that his family still live in enlisted as the area and I wonder whether Private no. any of the community can explain 16663 in the 8th how and when John and his Battalion family came to live in the (Services) Sheering area and what he did for Bedfordshire a living both before and after the Regiment on war. 11th September Dr David Wright 1914 and arrived in France on 12th 18 Guilds Guildhall. Its original purpose is uncertain; it and may have had broader uses as a moot hall or Guildhalls civic meeting place. The building later became a school and today it is used for parish council Guilds were an early form of trade association. and other meetings and incorporates a small They became established in the Middle Ages museum of Thaxted’s history. by groups of merchants to control standards The guildhall at Linton was built in 1523 and is and promote their particular craft or skill in the now a private house. It was once the home of locality in which they operated. Some acquired Sir John Kendrew who was awarded the sufficient funds and status to erect their own Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962. premises or Guildhalls in market towns. These Finchingfield’s 15th-century guildhall stands buildings were used for meetings and other beside the parish church. In the past it was functions by the guilds. Some were designed used as almshouses and now the renovated to allow markets or trade on the ground floor. building houses a library and excellent The Hundred Parishes has some wonderful museum. The first floor is used in non-Covid surviving examples of guildhalls. Thaxted is times for courses and is available for private probably the best hire. known - three Thaxted Guildhall In Church Lane Clavering you will storeyed, timber find a 15th-century timber-framed framed and jetted, and plastered building. Now a private built in the 15th dwelling, it was built as the guildhall century. Thaxted was and later served as a workhouse and an important centre then almshouses. of cutlery Ashdon’s former 15th-century manufacture and it is guildhall, behind the church, also believed the cutlers later served as a workhouse before helped to fund the becoming a private house. building we now Ken McDonald, Secretary know as the www.hundredparishes.org.uk
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The event is ideal for rates of isolation and loneliness increased – regular running club members looking to boost especially amongst older people, and those their training, as well as those who are new to who are already frail and vulnerable from their running but looking for a challenge! conditions. Advance entry is £14 (£12 for affiliated Stacey adds: “The beauty of this project is that runners), or an additional it brings mutual benefits to £3 on the day (£17 non everyone involved; it’s been affiliated runners and £14 such a delight matching for affiliated runners). people and seeing their Please note, participants friendships flourish over the must be aged 15 years or last three years.” above. The Compassionate For more information on Neighbours are ‘matched’ taking part in this fun event visit the Hospice based on common interests, lifestyles and website at stclarehospice.org.uk/ experiences and both parties benefit from a stclare10k2021 or get in touch with St Clare mutual, supportive relationship as friends. Hospice Events Fundraiser Emma Broadbent The Compassionate Neighbours project has on 01279 773754 or email become a vital scheme during the pandemic, [email protected] when instances of isolation and loneliness have increased with lockdown and the restrictions, Compassionate Neighbours celebrates three especially in relation to those who are clinically years of friendship vulnerable. To date, the project has already West Essex and East Hertfordshire charity, St matched more than 150 Community Members Clare Hospice, is celebrating the third (socially isolated individuals in the local anniversary since the community) and the launch of its social project is open to people movement project, to self-refer to the service Compassionate or for professionals to Neighbours – a project make referrals. which is connecting The project is actively communities, building recruiting volunteers who community resilience and are able to spare time to helping to prevent social bring friendship to the isolation. lives of people who are Compassionate lonely and socially Neighbours is an award- isolated. Regular training winning project which sessions are being run, aims to help tackle currently via online loneliness within local meeting platform zoom communities. Since the Compassionate Neighbour Volunteer, Carolyn offers and volunteers are DBS project started at St Clare support to local individuals via the telephone checked prior to Hospice in 2018, it has becoming Compassionate trained 166 volunteers to become Neighbours. Volunteering as a Compassionate Compassionate Neighbours, who each give an Neighbour is a rewarding role where people hour a week to offer social and emotional can build genuine friendships by calling or support to others who are isolated. meeting a local, socially isolated person every “When I look back to the beginning of the week. project in March 2018, I never thought that the For more information on how people can initial group of volunteers would make so much access support, through friendship, and to find difference,” reflects Stacey Towler, out more about becoming a Compassionate Compassionate Neighbours Project Manager. “I Neighbour visit: https://stclarehospice.org.uk/ always knew this project was important, but I wellbeing-hub/compassionate-neighbours/ 20 Extracts from an non-emergency incidents. They also Update by Essex contribute to investigative and proactive Police for our local policing. 2 shifts of CPT officers now provide area 7 day a week cover. They have a number of functions to include providing high visibility PC Matt Edwards proactive patrols, problem solving in is the Epping partnership, community engagement and Forest District Community Policing Team beat investigating certain crimes. 2 Children and officer for Roydon, Young Persons’ Officers, a dedicated Rural Nazeing, Sheering, Officer and a Community Safety Engagement Matching, Officer are also attached to the CPT. The Hastingwood, district also benefits from an Epping Forest Broadley Common District Council funded Community Safety and Epping Upland. Team, 1 Sergeant and 2 Police Constables He became a beat working to address local priorities. Waltham officer in mid 2019. Abbey and Loughton benefit from Town PC Edwards has Centre Teams, 2 additional officers per area. spent his time since The CID are responsible for serious and then addressing complex investigations up to, and including, issues of concern attempted murder. Whilst that covers for local everyone dedicated to the district, there are communities with of course a number of shared resources assistance from partner agencies, proactively across the West of Essex and force-wide patrolling his beats and investigating crimes Epping Forest benefits from. This includes but allocated to him. These include low and is certainly not limited to: Operation Raptor medium risk hate crimes that have occurred (dedicated to addressing county lines and in these areas. PC Edwards has built up a gangs), the Roads Policing Unit, the Dog good network of local contacts, and regularly Section, the Operational Support Group, the hosts question and answer sessions for them. Domestic Abuse Investigation Team and the He is currently on a short-term secondment Child Abuse Investigation Team. I would really elsewhere in the force. Meanwhile the wider encourage you to share your concerns with Community Policing Team and several other us, so that we can continue to keep Epping policing teams (as below) continue to patrol Forest a safe district to be.” these areas and investigate reported incidents. Recent Local Policing Officers have been busy addressing concerns regarding speeding in The Street in Sheering. Introduction from the District Commander, Recent activity includes speed checks Ant Alcock completed on the 7th, 10th and 14th “Hi everybody. My name is Ant Alcock and February. Traffic Offence Reports have been I’m a Chief issued and speeds of up to 43mph observed Inspector with on 2 of the occasions. Essex Police, The Brentwood and Epping Forest Rural currently the Crime Officer, PC Sheridan-Brown has District recently been patrolling in Matching following Commander for reports of hare coursing, fly tipping and Epping Forest and nuisance bikes. It is believed bikes have been Brentwood where I arriving via Sheering and Hatfield Heath. hold responsibility There have been some section 59 warnings for policing. I issued. This means should the rider drive that wanted to take the time in this edition to same or any other vehicle in a similar manner explain the policing structure within Epping within 12 months, the vehicle can be seized. Forest. Based at Loughton Police Station, there is the Local Policing Team (LPT), Reporting Guidance Community Policing Team (CPT), Town Timely reporting using the correct means is Centre Teams (TCT) and the Criminal really important for a number of reasons. For Investigations Department (CID). LPT provide example, it ensures we have an accurate the 24/7 cover responding to emergency and understanding of crime and ASB occurring 21 within the local area, helping to focus responses. We often become aware of things discussed elsewhere, such as on social media, that have not been officially reported. You might also have the final bit of information required to make the difference between the court granting a warrant to search a premises and not. Do it online with the digital 101 service: Significant developments have been made to increase online reporting options for non- urgent incidents, to ease demand on the 101 telephone line. Anybody who is able to report online is encouraged to do so, so those who cannot can reach a call handler quicker. Please visit www.essex.police.uk/ to explore reporting options, which includes crime and antisocial behaviour reporting, road traffic incident reporting, breach of COVID regulations reporting and more. Why not try our ‘Live Chat’, available between 7am-11pm daily, where you can exchange real-time direct messages with online operators. Please always use 999 for an emergency. Anonymous reporting: CrimeStoppers is a charity independent of the police, who will take information from you 100% anonymously and pass to the police on your behalf. There is some information that CrimeStoppers cannot process, such as if you are reporting an emergency or you are a victim of crime. Read more on their website www.crimestoppers-uk.org/ or call 0800 555 111 to report. Fearless is the youth brand of CrimeStoppers, which also allows for anonymous reporting and access to information and advice regarding crime and criminality. Visit Fearless on www.fearless.org/. what3words: This is an app and website used to help identify locations. Every 3m square has 3 unique words associated with it, which you can communicate to an emergency service or other agency to really help pinpoint your location.
Engagement Opportunities As soon as is safe to do so, opportunities to speak with your local police in person will recommence, such as Coffee With Cops and pop-up events. We have been running Facebook Q+A sessions, with one just held for the areas covered by this newsletter on 16th February. You can visit our page to review the session. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to get in touch: [email protected] 22 Cllr Kevin Bentley, please contact the team. Essex County Council Contact the project team: Deputy Leader and [email protected] Subscribe to regular Cabinet Member for newsletters via https://group.graham.co.uk/l/1F8/ Infrastructure M11J7A
A message from Cllr Gilden Way – Updates Kevin Bentley. This Four-way lights remain in operation on the project remains one Churchgate Roundabout to allow the safe of our most important construction of the new roundabout highways schemes in configuration as well as the concurrent Essex and, since our widening of the adjoining roads in all last newsletter, I am pleased to say that we directions. have been progressing well. We are carrying out the necessary widening works along Gilden Way in 300m stretches to enable us to move ahead as quickly as possible and we are continuing to monitor the traffic management to help ensure that delays are kept to an absolute minimum. With the works reaching Churchgate Roundabout in recent weeks, this has required four-way lights to be in place, meaning additional delays, and I would like to thank everyone for their patience while this has been underway. Meanwhile, we have also been making good progress with the off-line section of the We are unable to remove the traffic scheme, with earthworks continuing on the management measures daily as this would link road and junction itself. We, therefore, result in significant delays to the works and remain on track for the bridge installation an overall increase in disruption to road user over the motorway in the coming months. and residents. Thank you for your continued This will mean some overnight motorway patience and as we continue to work through closures and we will provide more details on this complex section of work. The four-way these in our next newsletter. You may have lights are set to remain in use until early also seen the lane closures which we had in May. We are also completing widening works place on the M11 in recent works. These adjacent to Mulberry Green on the were to enable Highways England to safely eastbound side of the road. undertake emergency repairs to the deteriorating road surface on the M11, both northbound and southbound, following poor weather. Because the works were next to and adjoining the new Junction 7A site, our contractor GRAHAM and their supply chain supported Highways England’s repair teams by providing and modifying temporary traffic management measures. It was very pleasing to see this collaborative working to help re- open the road as soon as it was safe to do so. On the subject of safety, I would also stress the lengths to which our team is going to help ensure Covid-secure working M11 – Updates Piling works have completed arrangements as we stay on course to for the West and East abutments of the new deliver this vital improvement scheme. For overbridge and piling for the various more information on the Junction 7A please motorway gantries along the hard shoulder visit our website at www.essex.gov.uk/ continues both Northbound and junction7a and if you have any questions, 23
Southbound. Reinforced concrete works said "we were really proud of how everyone have started to the East abutment of the on site helped make the collection so overbridge and the works to the West successful and we hope it's an initiative that abutment will follow. Sheering Hall we can continue throughout the year. If you Underpass is currently closed to allow us to would be interested in donating to the bank, complete the extension works which will run they can be contacted on 01279 724515 or until mid-March when the underpass will via email at [email protected]. reopen. We plan to start the earthworks for Minimising Waste the new Link Road and M11 slip roads on to and off the M11 at the new junction 7A from Our site is committed to minimising the mid-March. amount of waste from our scheme and we are working with a recycling and waste Community Matters management company to ensure 100% of In December the our waste is diverted from landfill. The Project Team Riverside Timber Recycling Project are an hosted a foodbank Essex based social enterprise who support collection for the training and opportunities for people who Harlow based might find it difficult to get into employment. Foodbank. Working in partnership, the project provides Donations were a wood waste collection service to then collected from make products to sell. both staff and the Further to this we have a Materials supply chain Management Plan which has been approved working on the by a respected independent not-for-profit project. The food organisation established to stimulate the collected weighed regeneration of contaminated land and the in at the Environmental Agency. 100% of materials equivalent to 400 generated on site, such as subsoil, clay fills, dinners! Lisa topsoil and even concrete washout waste will Hatch, our Site be reused on site via incorporation into the Administrator, who organised the collection works.
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Revd Dawn Jewson out of ‘fancy’ decorations as its whitewashed As you read this, walls testify; it has become a listed building, Easter 2021 will be protected as part of our national heritage. But almost upon us. As I its importance is not in its stones, its mortar, write this in early its furnishings or even its worship style. The March, we are in the most important part of any church (after God, season of Lent, the of course) is its people. 40 days (plus The people of St Mary’s have recognised Sundays) which the over the past year – as their predecessors Church sets aside learned time and time again in centuries gone for Christians to by – that prayers said in the church building, prepare themselves hymns sung, even creeds recited, have no for the joy of Easter, marking the time when meaning unless they lead to an outpouring of we believe God raised Jesus to new life love in the local community and beyond. We following his death on the cross on Good have seen some amazing acts of love in our Friday. village, from painted stones bringing hope We are also still in national lockdown, and cheer, to neighbours looking out for one although we’re beginning to see the much- another, and so many people volunteering to publicised ‘light at the end of the tunnel’. help with vital tasks such as shopping, Yet life has been placed on hold for so long collecting medicines and stewarding at that we may be feeling dull and discouraged. vaccination centres. Many of us have lost loved ones during the We want and need to keep this momentum pandemic, and it may even feel like a betrayal going, even as we all receive the vaccine and of their memory to rejoice or to look ahead life begins to look more like it did before the too much at this time. pandemic. So it’s with a sense of cautious optimism that Let’s not lose that love and care that we’ve we welcome Spring, Easter, the signs of new found. Let’s remember it, rejoice in it, and life around us, and of course the next step in nurture it. We need it. the roadmap out of the pandemic. With my love, Our church building has stood in Church Dawn Lane for around 900 years. In that time it has [email protected] been a Catholic church and an Anglican 01279 730288 / 07930902507 church; it has been a target for the stripping 28
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