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FORTRY FREE US • Braintree Sport & Health Club • Braintree Swimming & Fitness FITNESS • Halstead Leisure Centre YOUR WAY • Leisure Centre Try us for free – download your free pass at www.fusion-lifestyle.com/offers/free-pass* *Terms and conditions apply JUST A FEW HOURS CONTENTS 04 GO GREEN – Help us OF YOUR TIME CAN keep our district clean and green

MAKE A WORLD OF 06 HEALTH, HOMES, JOURNEYS AND JOBS – Read more about our DIFFERENCE investment plans

08 REVIVING OUR MARKETS – Street BECOME A COMMUNITY TRANSPORT food markets come to VOLUNTEER DRIVER Braintree and Witham WWW.BRAINTREE.GOV.UK/COMMUNITYTRANSPORT 10 MOVE MORE – Find 8 CALL 01376 557883 OR EMAIL out the latest Livewell work COMMUNITY.TRANSPORT BRAINTREE.GOV.UK 12 CULTURE AND BRAINTREE HERITAGE – Town Hall marks its 90th year & Bocking Windmill reopens

COMMUNITY 14 ARE YOU PREPARED TRANSPORT FOR AN EMERGENCY? – Is your household prepared for fl ooding? 12 16 WHAT DO WE DO? – Take a look at our Transform Lives as a district council services 19 HOW SATISFIED ARE Support Worker YOU? - Tell us what you in Braintree think about our services

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Content correct at time of print (August 2018) 3 2 2 3 If we all make a conscious effort to recycle more and purchase less plastic, Got a great idea to improve You told us together we can say NO to a Plastic Planet your community and bring you hate litter In our recent Customer Satisfaction people together? Survey 2017-18, 75% of respondents Then there’s funding available to help you. said they were satisfi ed with the cleanliness of the district and Matt Ager is although this has declined from the passionate about Why not set up previous year, it is still 7% above the doing his bit for the a repair café in national average. You also told us environment, so keeping the district clean and tidy he founded the Cornerstone Repair your local area? is important to you, however, some Café in to help keep tired and broken goods in service. With a said they were not aware of what we team of skilled volunteers, he offers a Councillors’ Community do to keep it that way. Grants Scheme offers up free repair service to the community. councillors’ to £1,500 - contact your community To help Matt’s idea fl ourish, Ward Councillor to discuss grants Did you Cornerstone Repair Café received your project www.braintree. colour version funding from the Councillors’ gov.uk/councillorscommunitygrant know..? Community Grant Scheme and The Essex Crowd funding scheme. The Essex Crowd Town centre wants to support ascouncillors’ councillors’ many ideas as possiblecommunity community Over the last century, And so is the planet. grants grantsBarrow Beats plastic has become 79% of the plastic waste THERE IS NO and can pledge up to A total of 202 litter bins are emptied 7 days £10,000 to do so. 1 colour version a week in Braintree, Halstead & Witham. reversed version part of everyday life. ever created has ended We also hand sweep doorways and other Start crowd funding today and make From bottles and bags up in our environment. PLANET B areas the mechanical sweeper cannot reach your idea a reality! to plastic pots, tubs and We’re becoming a plastic www.spacehive.com/movement/ trays, our lives are full of it. planet. But we don’t have Source: theessexcrowd/about www.recyclenow.com/plastic-planet Play area bins to if we recycle. in Braintree, Halstead & Witham towns are emptied once/twice a week. That’s 180 bins MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE Dog & litter bins CUTTING DOWN ON SINGLE-USE PLASTIC Outside the town centres Refi ll Essex 1119 dog bins, 764 litter bins are emptied at least once a week USE A REUSABLE SHOP SMART Invest in a STAINLESS Join the Refi ll revolution WATER BOTTLE and local to There are money-saving A120, A12, By-Pass purchase loose and fi ll up your reuseable and take advantage of the STEEL items instead water bottles for free, at bins emptied Refi ll offer to provide free RAZOR benefi ts for you too of food that is Monday/Wednesday/Friday and easily accessible tap 86% cafés, bars, restaurants wrapped in plastic drop in 70 bins per day water for everyone, and other businesses packaging. plastic bags A half-litre bottle of still on-the-go. SWAP across Essex. water typically costs around Remember to take BATHROOM your bag for life Businesses are being encouraged Main A-Roads BOTTLES to sign up to the free Refi ll app, and 50p in shops A131, A120, B1018 & A12 verges with you. Litter picked every 6-8 weeks TAKE YOUR OWN for refi ll packs and display a sticker in their window to show passers-by that they are CUP and benefi t from soap/shampoo bars. the equivalent volume the discount and special welcome to fi ll up their bottles for Clean your home with free. The Refi ll app also lets you of tap water Grass verge cutting offers many cafés and know where your nearest Refi ll In Spring & Autumn NATURAL costs shops are running. RECYCLE station is while you are on the move. a twelfth INGREDIENTS as much as of a penny you can. Town centres & surrounding areas PACK YOUR LUNCH IN swept everyday A REUSABLE CONTAINER and use real cutlery Parish roads instead of a disposal Over 38.5 million 15 million To fi nd out more, sign up plastic bottles plastic bottles and download the app with kerbs are plastic knife and www.braintree.gov.uk/recycling used in the UK are landfi lled, fork. every day. incinerated, or swept 4 times a year littered every day. www.refi ll.org.uk 4 5 HEALTH HOMES JOURNEYS INVESTING IN Y UR FUTURE JOBS Health, Homes, Journeys and Jobs... Braintree District Council is investing in the district Commercial property We own and manage a range of Like all councils we have faced the new homes built for a mix of We want more jobs and business start-up units, grow-on toughest of financial challenges private and affordable sales, a opportunities for everyone units and other commercial as Central Government funding new modern bus interchange, who lives and works in our properties - all at competitive rates. of council services whittles away new two-level car parking, a district and we will do this by We can also offer conference to nothing by 2020. We’ve had to café or restaurant, a garden to supporting local businesses. facilities. Visit www.braintree.gov. change so that we can continue complement Braintree’s historic That’s why we are investing in uk/commercialproperties to provide the frontline services Town Hall and provide the perfect the Employment or call Asset Management on which residents rely on. The amount backdrop for the potential new Site, the grow-on units and Osier House, Sible Hedingham. Braintree Enterprise Centre. 01376 552525. we raise in council tax doesn’t café or restaurant. Excitingly, the extra parking at the Braintree cover the costs of all the services development will also be home Enterprise Centre and a we provide (take a look on page to the county’s first Livewell Hub rural business hub in Sible Braintree District is 16) so we’ve embarked on an designed to make it easier for Hedingham called Osier House. Option D is Essex County investment programme which will different parts of the NHS and We are also bidding to be part well connected for see us investing in the things that community-based services to of a project called I-Construct Council’s favoured route option for a new matter to our residents: health work in a truly integrated way. that, if successful, will create high speed dual carriageway A120 between Braintree and the A12 and homes, journeys and jobs. Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning a centre of excellence for Group has announced that the construction innovation (see growth Our investments are designed to hub will bring better-coordinated image below) and support We are investing in superfast make life better for our residents, care to the people who need it business growth across the broadband infrastructure improve the district while at the the most and improve the quality South East. We’re also looking across the district. We have same time giving us a return on of health and care services for to invest in a Witham Enterprise agreed to invest an additional investment that can be ploughed everyone living in Braintree and Centre. £356,000 to reach up to 99% into our frontline services. All of our beyond. of the district, with focus investments are carefully managed on rural areas, making the and painstakingly planned. Last year we invested in a new Braintree district one of the building for Church Lane Surgery most future-proofed and Current investments include in Braintree and we’re looking to digitally connected areas the Manor Street regeneration invest in new healthcare premises in Essex for residents and (see below) in Braintree which, in Sible Hedingham. We're also businesses with download if approved at the planning working with the NHS and doctors speeds of more than 30Mbps. stage, will consist of a hotel, on new healthcare facilities in Witham. The favoured route, which was announced in June 2018, will Getting around the district is To check your superfast be recommended to Highways and the Department for important and that’s why we broadband availability, visit the Transport for funding in the Road Investment Strategy 2, which View from Victoria Superfast Essex website at Street in Braintree are investing, alongside Essex is the next funding period for the strategic road network. showing the hotel County Council, in the A120 www.superfastessex.org/maps and giving a Option D’s alignment, if progressed by Highways England, would glimpse of the Millennium Way slip roads run from Galleys Corner at Braintree to a junction with the A12 bus interchange. to help relieve congestion at to the south of Kelvedon. Galleys Corner in Braintree. It offers more than £1 billion in economic benefits to road users and Find out more: www.essex. up to 15-minute journey time savings between Braintree gov.uk/a120millenniumway and Colchester during the rush hour. As part of our investment Provided that the scheme progresses as planned, it is anticipated strategy, we will continue to that construction could commence in 2023 with the road ready for look for sound investments use around 2026. across the district. Find out more: a120essex.co.uk 6 7 PLANNING for the future VISIT BRAINTREE The plan has been through many different stages and consultations and Graham Butland, Leader of STREET MARKET is made up of two parts. The first, Braintree District Council, said: section 1, deals with cross boundary strategic issues including the garden “A new approach is needed communities and section 2 relates to if we are to meet the needs BRAINTREE the Braintree District area specifically. Bringing together the best of a traditional market and a modern of future generations. I have twist, discover the range of fantastic food and quality drinks on 2018 DATES In October 2017 we submitted our spoken in the past about the plan to the Planning Inspector and he rise of a hidden homeless offer in the heart of Braintree town centre. Alongside sweet and Open from morning held a number of public hearings on savoury treats, unique gifts and homeware, the market diversity is until mid-afternoon in section 1 in January and May 2018. generation living across North Essex and that is why the ever growing and is guaranteed to bring a buzzing atmosphere. Braintree Town Centre In June 2018 we heard back from the Saturday 29th September 2018 Planning Inspector who commended Garden Community approach You can almost travel the world in the food court from traditional Saturday 27th October 2018 us for our ambitions for high-quality, is so critical. More and more strategic-scale development in Transylvanian cakes to Mexican inspired street food. Saturday 17th November 2018 people aged 18-30s are now *Christmas light switch on special* North Essex, but he asked for more living in their parents' homes Since 2014, we have evidence to support the transport, Saturday 1st December 2018 www.braintree.gov.uk/braintreestreetmarket been working on a viability and sustainability of the and that is something that Saturday 22nd December 2018 garden communities. should make us all sit up and BraintreeStreetMarket Local Plan which gives Discussions have already begun take notice. The alternative to 2019 DATES the community a say with Government about how its Garden Communities is tagging major infrastructure plans can be We will be continuing on where future homes homes on to towns and villages more directly linked up with garden and that really isn’t an option monthly street markets should be built. communities to provide the into 2019 from reassurance sought by the Planning we want to pursue because we March-December. Having a Local Plan gives Inspector. We will continue to want to protect existing towns Keep an eye out on us more power to stop work with our partners to develop the and villages from urban sprawl." our webpage for the inappropriate development. evidence to support the proposed garden communities. confirmed dates. www.braintree.gov.uk/ braintreestreetmarket Find out more visit: www.braintree.gov.uk/planningpolicy

WITHAM

We have just trailed our first A revolutionary approach street market in Witham North Essex on Saturday 8th September. to creating communities Garden Communities Based on its success, we will look into securing regular events in 2019. Get updates at Earlier this year the Work is underway and a lot has been Residents need to be at the centre www.braintree.gov.uk/ achieved since the ‘Examination’ of the proposals, they must be withamstreetmarket Planning Inspector in January. We fully recognise there able to give their view and help reported back to North is much more to do – our garden to shape the communities as they Essex Councils on their community proposals go far beyond develop. You can give your views proposals for three new the traditional boundaries of a Local by contacting the NEGC team at Plan, and we are working closely [email protected] or garden communities DID YOU with our many partners to answer by calling 0800 093 1678. to help meet long term some of the important questions KNOW… housing needs. raised by the Inspector. NEGC Ltd, the company set up to oversee the Card and contactless card payments His message was clear, delivery of the three communities, are now available in all our more work to do. are supporting Braintree District For more information about North Council-owned car parks. View the Council and our partners as we Essex Garden Communities list of our car parks on our website: www.braintree.gov.uk/carparks take this forward, looking to create visit www.ne-gc.co.uk the best possible proposition for residents now and in the future. 8 9 Jake said: This makes a real Are you active enough? “difference to people and Are you one of the 76% of residents in the Braintree District who it’s extremely rewarding. are not doing enough exercise to benefit your health? Recently a gentleman with dementia came to our dementia friendly swimming session with his wife, son and grandson. What is better than seeing three generations

Moderate Vigorous A dementia friendly swimming together who

aerobic activity otherwise wouldn’t have Everyone benefits aerobic activity “ swimming initiative felt confident doing so? from being active is getting people with dementia back in the pool. for their physical JOGGING BRISK WALKING Jake Turner, who works for Sport in the leisure pool at the centre in and mental OR RUNNING for Confidence, is based at Witham Spinks Lane, Witham. The pool is wellbeing Leisure Centre two days a week. His hired out exclusively which means aim is to make sure that people with that people with dementia can SWIMMING If you are interested in any of WATER AEROBICS dementia, mental ill health, autism, enjoy a relaxed swim at a quiet time the support Sport for Confidence learning disabilities or complex with help on hand. can offer you or a loved one, needs can have easy access to sports. please contact Jake on RIDING A BIKE RIDING A BIKE FAST The pool is fully accessible with a Eight months ago, Jake started pool pod and a movable floor. [email protected] dementia friendly swimming The session costs £2.60 with no or contact Witham Leisure Centre on PUSHING SINGLES TENNIS/ sessions taking place between extra cost for carers. 0345 260 1535. A LAWN MOWER SQUASH 1pm and 2pm every Thursday

HIKING Government FOOTBALL guidelines BADMINTON recommend RUGBY Livewellchild 11/2 hours Livewell Child is a three SKIPPING year pilot project aiming ROLLER SKATING of moderate Your local guide to health to support families and aerobic activity and wellbeing in Essex their children to eat well per week HOCKEY and move more. Braintree NETBALL District Council is working or with ten schools in the district to provide 11/4 hours AEROBICS BASKETBALL initiatives to help children of vigorous make healthy choices. Advice for families Local Activities Ageing Well aerobic activity, GYMNASTICS or a combination So far the children have been offered free fruit of the two and veg, slow cookers, cooking clubs, the Daily Mile and information booklets providing advice MARTIAL ARTS about health, as well as a range of healthy campaigns. If you would like to be involved in Nutrition & Weight Mental Wellbeing Your Health Livewell Child either as a Livewell Champion; Children need to be active for 60 minutes One in five deaths of the Management being an ambassador for health & well-being or a day to stay healthy. Most children are active for at least district's 40-79 year olds are by offering your skills and talents to help children 30 minutes while they are at school. Other activities include walking www.livewellcampaign.co.uk live better, or whether you are a local business preventable. Look after your and can support individual schools please email or cycling to school, playing in the park or organised activities. Follow us on: health and move more. [email protected] Livewell campaign @LivewellLocal Visit livewellcampaign.co.uk for activities near you @LivewellCampaign You can read about the campaigns so far at www.livewell.co.uk/livewell-child 10 11 visit toRoyal the district VOTES for WOMEN

2018 marks 100 years since the introduction of the Representation of People Act. After decades of campaigning all men over the age of 21 and women Celebrating over 30 who owned property were given the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Julien Courtauld and Cllr Vanessa Santomauro 90 years… Chairman of Braintree District Council In May 2018 local dignitaries and BY CLAIRE WILLETTS, COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS CURATOR 21 local residents who share their "The site on which the town hall 90th birthday with Braintree was built was the site of the old Livestock market, at the junction ver ten years ago, working Katherine Mina Courtauld Town Hall came together to of Manor Street and Fairfi eld Road. Ofor another museum, I was was the daughter of George celebrate 90 years since the Although he could have gone to inspired and have never forgotten Courtauld III, owner of Halstead building’s offi cial opening. his brother Jack for an architect he the words of our then local female Mill. She was Secretary of Katherine Courtauld (left) chose instead, Vincent Harris, who The Braintree District had a MP. We were opening a display the North West Essex branch with Mary Gladstone The foundation stone was laid in at that stage in his career had yet Royal visit this year. In July about a local suff ragette and she of National Union of Women’s Photo given with kind permission October 1926 by George Bartram to produce his fi nest work, and was HRH Prince Edward, the Earl spoke about the importance of by George Courtauld. and the town hall was offi cially Suff rage Society. Her family’s basically a classicist in style.” of Wessex, visited Prested Hall exercising our right to vote, as opened on 22 May 1928 watched wealth aff orded Katherine in Feering as part of the Duke those who had fought for this right Catherine Courtauld, the youngest by a crowd of fi ve thousand. Julien also gave the audience a run independence and infl uence. of Edinburgh Awards Scheme sacrifi ced a great deal and by not child of Sydney and Sarah Lucy through of the meaning behind the She was given Knight’s Farm in Tennis Challenge which will see Courtauld, and sister to William The town hall was gifted to the murals which surround the tops of voting we would be forgetting Colne Engaine and from the 1891 him playing on every Real Tennis the courageous campaign they Julien Courtauld, Samuel Courtauld town by William Julien Courtauld, each room in the town hall depicting census onwards her occupation his great nephew Julien Courtauld court in the world - to raise funds fought. A hundred years later it (who established the Courtauld images of the Roman occupation of was recorded as a ‘farmer’. In the spoke at the celebration event and to enable more young people seems incredible that women were Institute of Art) and Stephen Braintree among many others. 1911 census Katherine was hosting said that the town hall had cost to start their Duke of Edinburgh unable to vote, yet the stories of Courtauld (Eltham Palace) was an For weddings, room hire, Alice Geraldine Cooke, a Women’s £50,000 to build. both in the UK and abroad. Find many of our suff ragettes have artist. She used her skills to events and much more visit Suff rage Organiser with the out more: prested.co.uk been forgotten. support the movement by designing He said: “The town hall has given www.braintreetownhall.co.uk National Union Woman’s Suff rage several suff rage posters for the centre of Braintree an authority In the Braintree District, the Society. At the bottom of the To fi nd out more about Real publication including ‘The and air of permanence since it was Telephone: 01376 557776 Courtauld family is a well-known page in red, Katherine wrote: Tennis or to give it a go Anti-Suff rage Ostrich’ c.1909, built and still does. Email: [email protected] name, but little is known about www.braintreetownhall.co.uk contact [email protected] the infl uential role both male “As a householder ‘The Anti-Suff rage Society as Braintree Town Hall @braintreethall Portrait Painter’ c. 1912, ‘The and female family members & ratepayer I deeply played in the suff rage movement. Anti- Suff rage Society as Prophet’, The family’s support for wider resent being denied the c. 1912, and ‘Waiting for a Living enfranchisement was not militant, privilege of a citizen Wage’ c. 1913. These posters are INSIDE but they used their power and held in the Museum of London today. position to help bring about in the exercise of the The stories of these two ladies change. Several members of the parliamentary franchise.” THE MILL have certainly been forgotten. family signed the 1866 petition for 2018 saw the reopening of the How many other women in the the Enfranchisement of Women. Bocking Windmill to the public. Samuel Courtauld was one of District were involved and their Although it hasn’t been a working mill since 1929 three founding male shareholders stories untold? much of the original machinery is still in place. for the English Woman’s Journal and a member of Manchester Braintree Museum is looking to fi nd out more The windmill, located in Church Street, Bocking, is a postmill Women’s Suff rage. In the following information about suff ragettes who lived in our which is the earliest type of windmill and was built in 1721. generation, two Courtauld ladies District, please do get in touch if you can help. This year the Friends of Bocking Windmill have held 8 open were involved in the movement days and have shown hundreds of people round. Claire Willetts Collections and Exhibitions Curator – Katherine Mina Courtauld and Braintree District Museum 01376328868 Catherine Courtauld. Braintree District Find out more via www.friendsofbockingwindmill.btck.co.uk/ [email protected] or on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ChurchstreetBocking/ Museum Photo taken by Andy Connolly 12 13

Braintree District Braintree District Museum Museum ARE YOU PREPARED DON’T for AN EMERGENCY? MISS Our emergency planning The main risk in the Braintree Over the coming years rising ARE YOU team, together with District has been identifi ed as river temperatures, sea levels and STRUGGLING and surface water fl ooding. an increase in the severity and YOUR CHANCE TO partners across the frequency of extreme weather is county, has produced a The winter of 2015/16 was the second likely to raise the risk of fl ooding in TO PAY wettest winter on record and a series the UK. YOUR RENT? risk and resilience booklet of storms resulted in heavy and to help residents prepare sustained rainfall. More than 17,000 Braintree District their homes, businesses UK properties were fl ooded and Council’s housing several bridges collapsed disrupting options team is encouraging VOTE and communities. access to and from local communities. GET INVOLVED you to get in touch if you’re having problems paying your rent or are already in arrears. The emergency services have to The sooner you make contact, the more New District and Parish prioritise people in greatest need options will be available and the better the councillors will be elected on during an emergency so individuals outcome is likely to be. and communities may have to rely MAY 2ND 2019 on their own resources to minimise The team want to help, so give us a call the impact of any emergency. 01376 552525 or send us an e-mail Many parishes in the district [email protected] Register at www.gov.uk/register-to-vote already have their own www.braintree.gov.uk/housing community emergency plan so if you would like to get involved please speak to your CHURCH, FEERING • BRAINTREE, WITHAM & HALSTEAD CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU • BELCHAMP ST PAUL & BELCHAMP OTTEN PARISH local parish council or to the COUNCIL • BIRDBROOK PARISH COUNCIL • BLACK NOTLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION TABLE TENNIS CLUB • BLACKMORE END emergency planning team at VILLAGE HALL • BOCKING ARTS THEATRE TRUST • BOCKING SPORTS CLUB • BOCKING VILLAGE FAYRE CO-ORDINATING GROUP • BORLEY PARISH MEETING • BRADWELL VILLAGE HALL • BRADWELL WITH PATTISWICK PARISH COUNCIL • BRAINTREE & BOCKING Braintree District Council. PUBLIC GARDENS TRUST • BRAINTREE AND BOCKING CARNIVAL COMMITTEE • BRAINTREE AREA FOODBANK • BRAINTREE BASKETBALL CLUB • BRAINTREE BULLETS BMX CLUB • BRAINTREE CHESS CLUB • BRAINTREE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DISTRICT MENCAP • BRAINTREE DISTRICT MUSEUM TRUST • BRAINTREE EAST - PRIDE IN OUR PATCH • BRAINTREE FOYER • BRAINTREE SALVATION ARMY • BRAINTREE YOUTH PROJECT CHARITY • BRAINWAVE CHILDREN’S CHARITY • CASTLE HEDINGHAM BOWLS CLUB • CASTLE HEDINGHAM CLUB • CASTLE HEDINGHAM PARISH COUNCIL • COGGESHALL IN BLOOM • COGGESHALL PARISH COUNCIL • COGGESHALL SCOUT AND GUIDES HQ • COGGESHALL YOUTH PROJECT • COLNE ENGAINE PARISH COUNCIL • COLNE ENGAINE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL • CORNERSTONE • Sign up to receive fl ood warnings CHURCH (BRAINTREE) • COURTAULD HALSTEAD BOWLS CLUB • COURTAULD MEMORIAL HALL • CRITTALL WHAT CAN by registering with Flood Warnings ATHLETIC AND SOCIAL CLUB • CROSSROADS CARE BRAINTREE DISTRICT & • DOLPHIN W.I. Direct www.gov.uk/sign-up-for - BRAINTREE • EARLS COLNE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE • ESSEX KNITTERS & STITCHERS (WITHAM) • FEERING YOU DO fl ood-warnings PARISH COUNCIL • FIRST STOP CENTRE • FOXEARTH & LISTON PARISH COUNCIL • FRANCIS CRITTALL PAVILION ASSOCIATION • FRIENDS OF BOCKING WINDMILL • THE COURTAULD MEMORIAL to protect your • Keep a supply of fl ood protection HALL • THE ESSEX SHED NETWORK • THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION (WITHAM BRANCH) • products, such as fl oodsax, TOPPESFIELD PARISH COUNCIL • TOPPESFIELD VILLAGE • GOSFIELD PARISH COUNCIL property? door barriers and airbrick covers • GREAT BARDFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY • GREAT BARDFIELD PARISH COUNCIL to protect your property before • TheGREAT Braintree BARDFIELD SCHOOL District PTA Councillors’ • GREAT MAPLESTEAD Community PARISH COUNCIL any fl ooding occurs and make • Have supplies in your home that Since 2016 • GREATGrants NOTLEY Scheme PARISH allowsCOUNCIL groups• GREAT SALING to apply PARISH forCOUNCIL Find out if your property is at • GREAT YELDHAM PARISH COUNCIL • GREENER SILVER END • sure you have adequate will enable you to cope for 3 days funding to support local projects risk of fl ooding by visiting the in case you are unable to evacuate. we have awarded GREENING THE COLNE • GREENSTEAD GREEN & HALSTEAD insurance. Blue Pages is an RURAL thatPARISH benefit COUNCIL • HALSTEADthe people CRICKET of CLUB Environment Agency pages independent fl ood directory which • Where possible, move valuable • HALSTEADBraintree DAY CENTRE District. • HALSTEAD at www.gov.uk can help you identify available and irreplaceable items to upper EMPIRE TRUST • HALSTEAD IN products bluepages.org.uk fl oors in times of fl ood risk. £145,953 • Plan where you will go if you • Identify neighbours who may Just some of the organisations we have helped have to evacuate and how you need extra help in the event can be seen in the background of this advert TAKE A LOOK will get there. of an evacuation. at our Risk and Resilience booklet on our website Visit: www.braintree.gov.uk/communitygrants www.braintree.gov.uk/ Sign up for our emergency planning tellme communityriskregister newsletter and alerts. Visit www.braintree.gov.uk/tellmemore more 14 15 What we do… Contact Braintree District Council: Our latest Customer Satisfaction Survey showed that many residents want online www.braintree.gov.uk to know all of the services we offer as a district council. via email [email protected] or by calling 01376 552525 Take a look below...

A Abandoned vehicles D Dangerous structures - removal Housing register - applying for housing O Odour complaints S Skills for our district’s association homes Active Braintree Dementia friendly communities Out of hours emergency line businesses Housing options advice - we can help for Braintree District Council services Did you Air pollution control/air quality control Demolition of buildings -safety with housing problems including the risk (01376 552525 and listen to the instructions) Special collections - T.R.E.E run the of homelessness special collection / bulky waste disposal Allotment sites Disabled facility grants service on behalf of Braintree District Council know..? Anti-social behaviour (see page 18) Homelessness - emergencies out of Sports pitch bookings Dogs including strays, dogs dangerously out of office hours P Parking (service carried Asbestos advice control, investigating fouling, barking out by North Essex Parking Partnership visit Strategic investments We prevent around 250 Housing standards - private sector housing Asset management of Braintree www1.parkingpartnership.org/north) Street cleaning individuals/families from District Council properties Street nameplates becoming homeless each year E Election registration & Elections Parks and open spaces - repair/replacement Infectious disease control I Pest control – wasps, mice, rats, hornets and Street naming Environmental health fleas. This is a paid for service. B Benefits (Council tax support) Street sweeping We help around 129 people Energy efficiency Planning advice thanks to Benefits (Housing) K Keep safe project Swimming pools - run for us by Fusion adapt their homes Energy switching Bocking Windmill Planning applications disabled facility grants every year Events bookings on public Planning enforcement Bottle banks L Landscape services T Temporary Traffic Regulation open space Planning: Local Plan We help around 738 people Braintree District Museum Leisure centres - run for us by Fusion Orders - road closures (01376 328868) Planning: supporting with nuisance complaints Litter enforcement Tourism Braintree Town Hall Flooding information Neighbourhood Plans each year F Town centre development (01376 557776) - emergency planning Litter picking Play areas Building control Livewell campaign Traffic Regulation Orders We have cleared 767 fly tips Fly posting Pollution control - parking restrictions in the past 12 months Building regulations Fly tipping Licensing including: Preservation of historic buildings Animal welfare, pet shops, riding schools, Tree preservation orders Bulky waste (a paid for service carried out Food complaints Private water supplies by T.R.E.E on behalf of Braintree District Council) animal boarding, dog breeding, zoo We took 98 stray licences, dangerous wild animals Public toilets in Newland Street Burial records Food hygiene business advice U Unauthorised encampments on dogs off our streets last year and inspections Caravan site licences in Witham and Braintree Bus Park Business rate billing and collection Charity street collection licence Braintree District Council land Public health funerals Business support Food premises complaints Club premises certificate We have served 64 fines for Gambling licence Fraud - council tax and benefits littering in the past 12 months House to house charity collection V Verge cutting (depending on road) Houses in multi occupancy - licence R Rats C Car park enforcement (service carried out by North Essex Parking Partnership visit www1. Pavement permits Recycling and refuse We’ve collected an estimated G Graffiti removal Premises licence parkingpartnership.org/north) River walks W Warner Textile Archive 56678.64 tonnes of waste for example Scrap metal dealers licence Grounds maintenance (01376 316780) Car parks (public) management cemeteries, parks, allotments, sports fields Braintree and Witham only Small society lottery licence Rough sleepers – reporting concerns and recycled 28434.73 tonnes in Special treatments licence – skin piercing, Water quality/sampling 2017/18 Cemeteries Braintree, Bocking, Witham tattooing, semi-permanent make up - analysis and risk assessment and Halstead H Health & wellbeing Street trading consent Taxi licence CCTV Braintree and Halstead only. Witham is Health and safety complaints managed by Witham Town Council Local authority controlled Health and safety advice Civil emergency planning accident reporting Commercial premises for rent Highway rangers - Service provided Our Partners… Essex County in partnership with Essex County Council Local land charges Commercial waste paid for service Braintree District Council transferred its homes to Council Home insulation - Working in Greenfields Community Housing in November 2007. is responsible for more than Committee meeting records partnership with Aran Services a local insulation Witham and Braintree only You can contact Greenfields Community Housing via: company who can access grant funding for loft M Markets - 5,000 miles of roads, 4,600 miles Community priced weddings and cavity wall insulation. To arrange a free no www.greenfieldsch.org.uk/contact/ Braintree Town Hall of pavements, 127,000 obligation survey, contact Aran Services on 0800 Meeting room hire - Braintree District Community and Braintree Enterprise Centre 5877795 or email [email protected] Its Customer Service Centre is open 8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, streetlights and 4,000 miles Safety Partnership (See page 18) for all enquires. It operates an out-of-hours service for reporting repairs of Public Rights of Way. Houses in Multiple Occupation Memorials Community Transport and anti-social behaviour, 24 hours per day, 365 days per year, which can be (HMOs) - complaints and accessed by calling the number below and listening to the prompts. To report issues including Conservation areas standards Noise complaints potholes, faulty streetlights N Call: 01376 535400 Repairs Freephone: 0800 970 6050 Contaminated land and blocked highways Housing grants for heating and You can also get in touch by: Council tax billing and recovery hot water systems Emailing [email protected], texting 07860 024 511 or accessing gullies, please visit Councillors’ Community Grants Livechat or our Self Service Portal via www.greenfieldsch.org.uk www.essex.gov.uk/highways (see page 15)

16 1717 How satisfi ed are you? ✓ with Braintree District CouncilSurvey Did you Braintree’s Essex Your feedback is important to us so we 3 How satisfi ed are you with each of the following know..? Energy Switch know how we are doing - whether you are main services provided by Braintree District Council: It’s easy, simple to Can you get a better deal on your satisfi ed with the main services we provide gas and/or electricity bill? and if you think we are providing value for 3a Keeping our District clear of Litter? You can pay, report, use and will save Delivered in partnership with iChoosr, money. The results will be published in Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed apply and register for time and money an independent specialist provider in Summer 2019. Thank you for your time. Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed lots of our services collective energy switching, average nor dissatisfi ed online? You can… Our future plans include the household saving of £180 a year. CLOSING DATE: 31st March 2019 Fairly dissatisfi ed introduction of online bookings Please tell us why: • Report a missed bin collection and a ‘My Account’ function APPLY ONLINE www.braintree.gov.uk/essexenergyswitch We use your valuable feedback to change our that will enable you to request • Request recycling sacks services if needed. Last year satisfaction with keeping Autumn 2018 • Pay and check your Council services, interact with us the district clear of litter dropped so we are looking Tax balance online and track the progress. Register from now until 8th October Auction on 9th October at how this can be improved. We have also just • Report a fl y-tip introduced the Bewell strategy to ensure residents Winter 2018/19 • Report a street cleaning problem have access to facilities to encourage more Register from 4th December – 11th February 3b Recycling & Waste Collections? participation in physical activity and sport as this was • Tell us about a change of address Auction on 12th February also highlighted as a concern. For full survey results Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed Visit www.braintree.gov.uk/doitonline visit: www.braintree.gov.uk/css17-18results Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed nor dissatisfi ed Fairly dissatisfi ed Please tell us why: How satisfi ed or dissatisfi ed are you with Did you know that Braintree District Council Braintree District 1 can help you deal with Community your local area as a place to live? Safety Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed anti-social behaviour? Partnership nor dissatisfi ed Fairly dissatisfi ed 3c Parks and Open Spaces? What is anti-social What we will not Please tell us why: behaviour? investigate as Did you know? Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed ✓ Noisy neighbours (noise that is anti-social behaviour? The Braintree District nor dissatisfi ed considered unreasonable including Community Safety Hub is based Fairly dissatisfi ed but not exclusively shouting and ✗ Children playing in the swearing) street or communal areas at Causeway House in Braintree. Please tell us why: ✓ Playing of amplifi ed music ✗ Young people gathering Representatives from Braintree ✓ Dumping rubbish and littering socially unless they are being District Council, the police, fi re service, housing associations, Overall, how satisfi ed are you with the way ✓ Dog fouling intimidating 2 probation services and the Braintree District Council runs things? ✓ Graffi ti ✗ Babies crying voluntary sector, among others, Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed ✓ ✗ Normal use of domestic Fly tipping regularly come together to tackle appliances Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed 3d Sports/Leisure Facilities? ✓ Accumulation of waste ! issues aff ecting the district. nor dissatisfi ed ✓ Abandoned vehicles ✗ Civil disputes between Fairly dissatisfi ed Very satisfi ed Very dissatisfi ed This year the partnership’s ✓ Vehicle noise neighbours e.g. shared Fairly satisfi ed Neither satisfi ed priorities are: Please tell us why: nor dissatisfi ed ✓ Noise in open spaces driveways, fences, hedges Fairly dissatisfi ed ✓ ✗ Being unable to park outside 1. Drugs in the community Do not use Sports/ Dangerous dogs Leisure facilities your own home 2. Hidden harms Please tell us why: 3. Violence and disorder To fi nd out more visit: If you would www.braintree.gov.uk/ like advice regarding communitysafetypartnership anti-social behaviour Please recycle this when you have fi nished with it. Please recycle this when you have fi Complete this survey online please call us on www.braintree.gov.uk/css2018-19 01376 552525 P.T.O. 18 CM 19 4 To what extent do you agree that Braintree 8 Please let us know how we can improve future District Council provides value for money? editions of Contact to help us produce the Strongly agree Tend to disagree best magazine for you. Tend to agree Strongly disagree Neither agree nor Don’t know disagree

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