Speaking at today’s meeting where the Council’s budget was approved, Cllr David Finch said that local people were in the best position to know what could make the biggest difference in their area, and both schemes would support the principle.
The first of the two schemes, the Supporting Communities
The new buses are part of a £1.7m investment from First Essex as part of their contract with Essex County Council to run the Park and Ride service. Advantages of the new buses will be free Wi-Fi, temperature-controlled air conditioning and announcements detailing the next stop.
More than 400 new special school places will be created across the county as Essex County Council strives to meet demand by investing a record £85 million.
A record-breaking 3.2 million square metres of road surfacing has been completed on Essex roads this summer – that is the equivalent area of more than 12,000 tennis courts.
The impressive feat – which trumps last year’s previous record figure for Essex of three million square metres – came despite
Chelmsford Park and Ride has been a huge success with thousands of people using the service on a daily basis.
But now we are trialling a new timetable offering earlier and more frequent peak-time journeys to help ensure we best serve its users.
Energy-saving LED lamps are set to be installed on all-night street lights across the county to save taxpayers thousands on electricity costs.
The new longer-lasting lamps require less maintenance and use less electricity.
Essex County Council is starting a programme to replace 9,000 existin
More than nine in ten pupils in Essex now attend schools rated as good or outstanding, according to the latest statistics.
Some 91.2 per cent of primary and secondary pupils go to a school with one of the top Ofsted ratings, compared with 84.3 per cent in 2015 and 71 per cent in 2013.
Chelmsford Conservatives and the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex have condemned hate crime.
Roger Hirst, Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex, said: “Hate crime is unacceptable.
“If you are the victim of racist abuse or witness hate crime taking place, if the crime in in progress p
A major new £40 million school looks set to be built on the Beaulieu development in Chelmsford.
Essex County Council had initially intended to build a 900-pupil secondary school and a separate 420-pupil primary school on the development but now proposes to create a large all-through school in
Today, for the first time on this scale, arts, heritage and museums leaders in Essex came together with council chiefs to open a new ongoing collaboration aimed at celebrating the unique and unrivalled cultural history of Essex and to maximise cultural investment into the county.
A Memorandum of Co
