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Lippitts Hill - More police helicopter flights ?

17/11/2014

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A Lippitts Hill Community Engagement Meeting has been organised to discuss the future of the Lippitts Hill Air Support Unit (Helicopters!). 
  
The National  Police Air Service are taking over all individual helicopter bases under one body.   There will be little or no local representation at bases.   The NPAS have been investigating the possibility of increasing the number of helicopters based at Lippitts Hill from 3 to 4 (a 25% increase, probably mostly night flights!)  

The meeting is schedule for 7.30pm on Tuesday 2nd December 2014 at The Owl Public House (Function Room) at Lippitts Hill.   

All interested residents are invited to attend
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Eleanor Laing MP starts work on new council housing project

17/11/2014

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MP Eleanor Laing joined EFDC Chairman Councillor Tony Boyce, Housing Portfolio holder Councillor Dave Stallan and Ward Councillors Ricki Gadsby and Helen Kane to mark the start of work on the first council houses to be built in the district for 30 years.

The Harveyfields development is set to be named 'John Scott Court' after the council's former chief housing and district health officer who retired after working for the authority for 29 years.The development will see nine one and two-bedroom flats replacing the old block of council garages. Harveyfields is the first of several across the district with the next due to commence in Roundhills, Waltham Abbey, in the near future.

The Epping Forest MP said: "I am delighted to celebrate the beginning of the work to build new council housing in Waltham Abbey.

"Epping Forest District Council has taken advantage of the Government's financial changes which have allowed them to invest in this much needed project for the first time in decades.

Demand for affordable housing in this district continues to increase and the new properties will be let to families on the Council’s Housing Register. Local housing policy ensures that only people resident in the area for more than 3 years are eligible.

Over the next six years, the Council is planning to develop around 120 new homes across the district, to be let at ‘affordable rents’


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Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing praises councillors’ efforts over street light switch-off time change

6/11/2014

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Epping Forest MP Eleanor Laing has praised the efforts of local Conservative county councillors whose campaigning has resulted in Essex County Council agreeing to turn street lights back on an hour earlier in a large part of the Epping Forest district.
Following the request from Buckhurst Hill and Loughton South county councillor Valerie Metcalfe and Chigwell Village councillor John Knapman, and others, street lights in the ‘Metropolitan’ part of the district are being turned back on at 5am instead of 6am from this Sunday (November 9).
Mrs Laing recently received a petition from Chigwell residents calling for street lights in their area to be turned back on at night.
The 5am switch-on follows the successful efforts of councillors Metcalfe and Knapman to press the county council to turn the lights off an hour later than originally planned - 1am instead of midnight.
Mrs Laing said: "The overall effect of the efforts of Valerie Metcalfe and John Knapman is that instead of the lights being switched off from midnight to 6am they will only be switched off from 1am to 5am - a considerable difference - meaning two hours more lighting every night for Epping Forest!"

Mrs Laing added: “This will be welcomed by many local residents, especially those who are out and about early perhaps walking to the station.
“I would like to thank Valerie and John for their efforts in putting the case of so many people to the county council and their continued pressure which has resulted in this common sense decision.”

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New waste contractor plans to recycle even more

4/11/2014

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Today, newly-appointed contractor Biffa Municipal will start collecting Epping Forest’s household recycling and refuse, heralding some changes to help the district recycle even more.

These changes won’t alter Epping Forest’s well-proven system of 2 wheeled bins (1 for refuse, the other for food and garden waste), recycling sacks (for ‘dry’ recyclables like paper, cardboard, metal cans and plastic containers) and a blue box (for glass containers), or collection frequencies.

Biffa, whose 40-plus local authority clients include some of England’s best recycling authorities, starts work on Monday 3 November 2014, there will be one immediate change – residents will be able to add food and drink cartons (commonly known as tetrapaks) to their recycling sacks.

A bigger change comes next April when Biffa will start what are known as ‘one pass’ collections. Made possible by new, more efficient, collection vehicles that have 2 separate compartments, the one pass service will collect both dry recyclables and glass containers together every fortnight, providing a same day, same time, collection for all dry recyclables.

This will mean fewer collection vehicles, less traffic congestion, and lower vehicle emissions.

April 2015 will also see the start of a new weekly service to collect small items of waste domestic electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) such as irons, kettles, toasters, audio equipment etc. All residents need do is put their small WEEE in plastic bags alongside their mixed food and garden waste bin, and Biffa will take care of the rest.

There is no change to fortnightly collections of refuse in wheeled bins.

From next May, Biffa will deliver 100 clear recycling sacks every year to every Epping Forest household, enough for an average of 2 recycling sacks each fortnight. Residents needing more clear sacks will still be able to collect them from the usual outlets.

Councillor Will Breare-Hall, Environment Portfolio Holder for Epping Forest District Council said: “Epping Forest already has an excellent recycling record, thanks to the efforts and commitment of our residents. We’re asking them to help Epping Forest become one of England’s best by supporting the service changes we’re introducing with Biffa.

“From November, residents can add tetrapaks to their recycling sacks, and from next April they can put small waste electrical and electronic equipment out for collection by Biffa. It’s that simple.”

Liz Talbot, Biffa Municipal’s local business manager, who will oversee more than 100 staff providing recycling and refuse collections and street cleansing in Epping Forest, said: “For months, the Biffa team has been preparing for its new contract, and is confident that the planned changes can help residents to divert even more waste towards recycling.”

According to the 2012-13 Defra recycling tables, Epping Forest’s recycling rate is just over 58%, 15th best in England. Biffa’s plans for diverting more household waste to recycling, reuse and composting should help push that rate to over 60%, hopefully putting Epping Forest in the top 10.

Last year, nearly 51,500 tonnes of domestic waste were collected from the district’s 54,000 properties, of which 30,279 tonnes of materials were sent for recycling, composting or reuse.

Information leaflets about Epping Forest’s recycling and refuse collections are being delivered to all 54,000 households in the district.
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