contactBRAINTREE DISTRICT RESIDENTS’ MAGAZINE 2018 Livewell: Are you active enough? We’re celebrating our market heritage Investing in Health, Homes, Journeys and Jobs Come and enjoy a FREE day at your new and improved leisure centre Click here for more details FORTRY FREE US • Braintree Sport & Health Club • Braintree Swimming & Fitness FITNESS • Halstead Leisure Centre YOUR WAY • Witham 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.TRANSPORTBRAINTREE.GOV.UK 12 CULTURE AND BRAINTREE HERITAGE – Braintree DISTRICT 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 Creative Support has over 25 years of experience as a not-for-profit provider of person-centred 6 10 & 11 support for vulnerable adults. 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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 Black Notley 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 Great Notley 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.