Disgraceful Tory smear to cover Town Hall decay
The Town Council need to prepare a budget for next year. The Town Clerk has prepared a first draft, and first gave it to councillors last Thursday. As the Tories …read more →
Category: Blogs
First Frost and we’re cracking up…
How do Gnomies? I’ve been a bit quiet on the gnome front -but only because I’ve been out and about, taking my gnome selfies and checking up on the state …read more →
Working hard to improve our streets.
We’ve just launched an R4U survey to get residents’ views on how Saffron Walden’s streets can be improved to help residents – see >>HERE! I’ve been spending a couple of hours …read more →
Future developments in Saffron Walden escape education contributions…
Following the abandonment of the crucial Katherine Semar School upgrade, the education situation in Saffron Walden continues to deteriorate. In a forthcoming application for a major housing development in the …read more →
Takeley’s Natalie Sullivan finally gets some trees!
In October 2014, Countryside Properties hacked down part of a hedgerow on a public footpath running beside their Friars Place Takeley site. They had no right to remove these …read more →
Resolving neighbourhood disputes as a community.
As a Councillor it is disappointing and frustrating to take on a case on behalf of a resident and find a satisfactory resolution very difficult to achieve. Perhaps you can …read more →
A taste of traffic chaos to come? Unless we stop it.
Saffron Walden is this week being treated to a demonstration of what traffic congestion would be like if Uttlesford District Council ever implemented the awful plans they published last year …read more →
Don’t play ‘party politics’ with the local plan.
In last week’s press the Conservative UDC leader asserted that R4U Councillors had played naïve protest politics with regard to the New Plan consultation document. If so then let us …read more →
A stone-picking success for Saffron Walden Town Council!
Lots of supporters descended on the land between the Anglo American Playing Fields and Catons Lane last Saturday, with the mission of collecting as many stones as possible from the …read more →
R4U operating as an effective opposition, demanding quality for residents.
At the previous council meeting there was nothing much to discuss or vote on. The other night was different – we had the big subjects of Essex devolution and the …read more →