It's not often I write about UKIP, but it's worth mentioning that our RDC Councillors have left UKIP to form a new party 'Friends of Rochford'. They have decided that they want to focus on local issues and for them, this is the way forward without national politics hanging over their heads.
Here's a piece that was written about the move from a recent edition of the Rayleigh Times.
You might remember my previous post on CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy). Last week at the Planning Policy Committee, it was noted that the evidence base for the implementation of CIL work was in progress. It’s not a quick process by any means and will come at a significant cost, however, the millions lost in developer
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We often see comments from people on social media, or when you talk to residents, that the police are, ahem how should I say, often less than helpful. In fact, we, the lib dems have recently raised a motion at full council to find out the affect of the closure of the front desk at
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Despite our requests to Rochford District Council, additional air pollution monitoring was refused. To be honest I’ve never been good with rejection, so there was only one thing to do…. form an alliance between the Lib Dems, Rochford District Residents and the Green Party. Self funding, we’ve set about our own monitoring across the
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