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Edition 93 • March 2020 • Quarterly GrTeheat Baddow Times parish council magazine Celebration event on 8th May in Great Baddow Recreation Ground 12pm to 6pm. Free for all NEWS AND EVENTS FROM YOUR PARISH COUNCIL NEW TYR ES PART WORN TYRES PUNCTURE AND DAMAGE TYRES REPAIR SPECIALIST NEW TYRES TRACKING For details of our LIFETIME GUARANTEE on part-worn tyres visit: CAR TYRES www.tyresaversukltd.co.uk Unit 4 Navigation Road, Chelmsford CM2 6HE CROSSOVER TYRES Call: 01245 252 626 4x4 TYRES 143 London Rd, Stanford Rivers, Ongar CM5 9PP Call: 01277 365 420 VAN TYRES Visit us on Facebook 2 GREAT BADDOW PARISH COUNCIL MAGAZINE WELCOME TO The Great Baddow Times Citygate House parish council magazine R/O 197-199 Baddow Road • Accountancy services Chelmsford CONTENTS • Detailed advice and guidance Essex • Payroll • Bookkeeping CM2 7PZ From the Chairman 4 • Tax (business and personal) • CIS and VAT services An open letter to EU citizens 6 Why choose Chris Regan Ltd? • Compe��ve rates • Excellent reputa�on Great Baddow Parish Council 8 • Start-up business specialists Climate News From Essex County Council 10 • Free advice & consulta�ons New Memorial Plaques 12 01245 283098 E:[email protected] W:www.chrisregan.co.uk Great Baddow Races 2020 12 Great Baddow Councillors’ Bios 14 What is a Parish Council? 18 All Mobile Stu What does a County Councillor do? 19 Based at the Baddow Antique Centre in Chelmsford Essex, trading from here Pedal for The J’s 2020 - Sunday 3rd May 21 Great Baddow Village Market 22 since 2005. We have built up a great reputation in Chelmsford The Role of an MP 24 and have many regular customers. We are proud of What’s going on at Meadgate Church 27 the service we have given over the years. Great Baddow Horticultural Society 28 Services we provide: • Mobile Phone Repairs Be Safe and Aware 32 • iPhone Repairs Explanation of types of fraud/scam 34 • iPad Repairs • iPod Repairs What’s going on at the Parish Hall 36 • Computer Repairs What is Lifestyle Financial Planning? 37 • PlayStation Repairs • Xbox Repairs City Council Report 38 • Mobile Phone Unlocking Contact All Mobile Stu Tel: 01245 476657 Email: [email protected] Website: www.allmobilestu.co.uk PLEASE SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES A big thank you goes out to all the local businesses that have advertised and supported the Great Baddow CommunityAd Magazine To advertise please call 01843 269513 Published by Community Ad Web Ltd 01843 834160 email: [email protected] web: www.communityad.co.uk The views expressed in any published content are solely those of the contributors. The Publishers accept no responsibility for the accuracy of any information contained in the publication. The contents of this magazine including images may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, downloaded or displayed in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Community Ad Web Ltd. Unless otherwise specified, the authors of the literary and artistic works in the pages in this magazine have asserted their moral right pursuant to Section 77 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of those works. The Publishers reserve the right not to publish a submission or part of a submission that they consider defamatory or otherwise inappropriate for publication. GREAT BADDOW PARISH COUNCIL MAGAZINE 3 However, these “differences” are needed and From the pooled together to work as a team along with our Clerk and the staff, for the benefit of the Chairman community of Great Baddow. You do not have Spring 2020 to wait for our monthly surgery to raise issues and things that are worrying you. You can Welcome to the March 2020 contact any of us including the Clerk, Clare edition of the Great Baddow Milligan, and you can also keep up to date Times. It has been gratifying with the latest news by going to our website, to have had positive feedback Facebook page, or looking at our notice boards. from residents who have found Members of the public are entitled to attend the Times informative and interesting. This is our meetings and a 15-minute slot at the reassuring as we spend a lot of time and effort beginning of the meeting is set aside for you to to produce something worthwhile for the ask questions and raise issues. community. We are currently, as well as dealing with normal Over the past few weeks it has become apparent parish matters and activities, planning with to the Parish Council from a variety of directions, our Clerk and staff, the Village Celebration on that some of our residents are confused about April 4th which focuses on volunteers and the role of the Council and, in an attempt voluntary work in Great Baddow, and the to clear that confusion, you will find articles Village Conference on April 23rd, when it is describing the three tier local government your opportunity to come along and hear the structure including where Parish Councils sit in Annual Report plus the ability to comment and that, and from Vicky Ford our MP, describing her ask questions. role in national government, and her interaction with the various local councils. And, last but not least, on Friday May 8th (the first Spring Bank Holiday to coincide with the It has also come to our attention that some 75th anniversary of VE Day, the end of WWII in residents do not know who the Parish Europe), we are holding a Celebration of Peace Councillors are (13 of us, the number based on event in the Recreation Ground from 12pm the population size of the parish, Great Baddow to 6pm. Entry to the Ground and parking (via being one of the largest in the country), so in Noakes Place) is free, no tickets required. There an effort to remedy that, we have included will be a number of different things for young our photos and mini biographies. You will see and old to enjoy. “Read all about it” in the that we come from different backgrounds with following pages! different skills and interests. 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The Some European countries outside of the EU skills and strengths that everyone who have reached separate agreements with the lives here brings to the area makes this UK. Irish citizens will continue to enjoy their a lively, forward-thinking and pleasant existing rights in the UK and do not need to place to live. apply, unless they wish to. To apply for settled status, and for further The City Council values everybody’s information, please visit: www.gov.uk/ contribution to the district - wherever you settled-status-eu-citizens-families. are from and however long you have lived here. In Chelmsford, there are around 3,500 Yours faithfully, residents who have come from the EU, EEA or Councillor Stephen Robinson Switzerland. Leader of Chelmsford City Council The UK Government is currently planning the country’s exit from the European Union. Anyone who lives here and is from the EU can apply for ‘settled status’. Settled status gives you the legal right to continue living in the UK. It means you and your family keep your access to healthcare, benefits and pensions. It also means that your Looking for a family members outside the UK can join you in future. It is estimated that around 50% of affected Chelmsford residents have applied you-shaped so far. weight loss plan? This is If you have not applied for settled status yet, I the one. would like to encourage you to complete your application. The deadline is 30 June 2021 and the application must be submitted through the GOV.uk website (see below). If you do not have Internet access at home, or if you need to scan documents but don’t have a device, you can come to the main library in Chelmsford City Centre.