Chelmsford council have increased the charge for visitor parking tickets in residential zones by 67% from 1 July. The annual residential parking permits rise from £18 to £23, an increase of circa 28%. [Six monthly permits from £12 to £17.]
TWO years after initially backing the formation of a South Weald Parish Council, residents are to be asked for their views again.
Total power could soon be held by an elite circle of councillors under planned changes to town hall democracy.
Travellers mocked residents and council officials by illegally setting up camp just yards from where they had been evicted.
MONEY-MAKING ventures in Brentwood's country parks will not be curbed by their new joint custodians.
Following my call for a Friends of Brentwood Country Parks consultative group to be set up as part of the joint management proposal, I am delighted that the leader of the council has agreed.