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Residents for Uttlesford (R4U) has urged Essex County Council to adopt the private Walden School (formerly the Friends’ School) as a state institution when it closes in July. Last week …read more →
Thank you to all the people that voted for and supported us in yesterday’s local elections. The reception on the doorstep has been incredibly positive. People are engaging in local …read more →
How-do Gnomies! The allotment is all of a bother this week following the news of the snap general election in June. Just when you think you’ve got all your trowels …read more →
Saffron Walden councillor Heather Asker and I have been pushing Essex County Council for some months now to fix the appalling state of some of our roads in the Saffron …read more →
Residents for Uttlesford is opposing the more than £2 million funding cuts being forced onto Uttlesford schools by central government. John Lodge, R4U Leader at UDC, said “All of our …read more →
Department for Education asks for R4U help in contacting affected families as part of investigation into Essex County Council’s failure to provide school transport As part of the ongoing investigation …read more →
In response to recent press, prospective candidate for ECC (Dunmow) Alex Armstrong writes: “Of course the Residents for Uttlesford prospective candidates know that our police service is not run by …read more →
The Department for Education (DfE) are continuing to investigate Essex County Council’s school transport policy following a referral by R4U. The policy is to refuse free school transport unless going …read more →
Concerning increasing concerns about crime, here is a selection of this weeks papers, Walden Local, SW Reporter and Dunmow Broadcast. Previous week it was the sell off of the Stansted …read more →
R4U believes that a recently published highways study by Essex County Council derails Uttlesford District Council’s proposals to build 1350 new homes on the east of Saffron Walden. Heather Asker, one …read more →