NEWS

Uttlesford District Council is advising residents of some important changes to the bin collection schedule over the festive season.

Collections will take place as normal in the week leading up to Christmas. This will be a green-lidded recycling bin collection week.

However, there will be no bin collections made the following week (beginning 26 December).

Collections will then resume from 2 January 2023. This will be for the grey-lidded general waste bin and food caddy. Extra black bags can be placed at the side of your bin for collection for this week only.

The following week (commencing 9 January) will be a green-lidded recycling bin collection week. Extra recycling can be placed at the side of your bin for collection as usual. Please put items in white or clear bags – no black bin liners.

Residents can stay up to date with recycling and bin collection news by subscribing to receive the e-newsletter – sign up at www.uttlesford.gov.uk/keep-me-posted – or by following the council on Facebook or Twitter (search @UttlesfordDC).

For more information about what can and cannot be recycled, visit www.uttlesford.gov.uk/recycle-it.

Further information about recycling, reducing or reusing waste, as well as recycling centre opening times over Christmas and New Year, is available at www.loveessex.org.

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DigiGo is an electric shared public transport service that offers on-demand or pre-bookable travel in parts of Essex including Great Canfield, Great Dunmow, Felsted, Pleshey, Broomfield and more.

To celebrate the festive season, they are offering 25% off all weekend DigiGo trips through December!

To claim this discount, use code WEEKEND25 when booking a DigiGo ride on the TravelEssex app. You can book on-demand or up to seven days in advance!

For more information about DigiGo, visit their website: www.digigo.uk

Team DigiGo

Integrated Passenger Transport Unit

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The festive season has barely begun but there’s nothing like being organised, especially at this busy time of year. The Farleigh Hospice annual Christmas Tree Recycling event is back on the 6, 7 & 8 January 2023 so why not tick one thing off your to-do list by registering your tree and they will arrange a hassle-free collection from your home when the festivities are over.

Simply follow this link to register.

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Following on from the great success of our decoration creation day we are delighted to say that the Felsted Xmas tree is now up in the centre of the village.

Please come along on Saturday 3rd at 5:30 to see the tree lit shortly after, admire the beautiful decorations made by the community and to start the festive season off with friends and family.

We are also reliably informed that a special visitor wearing red will be dropping by in his musical sleigh, so be sure to be there.

You can also download a song sheet for the carols which will be sung at the event here so you can sing along.

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We have been asked to make everyone aware of a new Essex Police Newsletter, which allows residents to keep up to date with what is happening in our area, alongside crime prevention tips.

To subscribe to the new digital newsletter please follow Essex Police – Uttlesford District Dispatch Newsletter

Kind regards

PCSO Natalie Smith 42081762

Great Dunmow

Uttlesford District

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Over the last few months, The Community Safety Partnership have been working on a new concept. As a result, the Essex Horse Rider Volunteers Scheme (EHRV)  is now ready to launch as a trial initially in Uttlesford, with a view to opening it up further within Essex in 2023.

The idea is simple, horse riders regularly use bridleways, footpaths and narrow country lanes that are not easily accessible by vehicles. They are in a unique position to spot signs of suspicious activity related to illegal activity such as hare coursing, stolen agricultural vehicles, unlawful metal detecting or theft of lead from protected heritage buildings .

Rural crime affects farms, livestock and wildlife and targets individuals and businesses connected to rural communities, This has significant impact. Horse Rider Volunteers can be the eyes and ears in the rural areas and will be encouraged to report any suspicious activity or behaviour they see.

Any horse riders in the Uttlesford District who are interested in learning more details can submit an expression of interest via the Essex Police Website:

Essex Horse Rider Volunteer Scheme | Essex Police

Alternatively, if you know of other people or groups who may be interested, please do forward this message. All interested parties will be invited to a Introduction event to learn more about the scheme and the suspicious activity they may come across. Introductions sessions will be held locally within Uttlesford throughout December, January and February.

If you have any questions at all please contact Kerry below.

Kerry

Uttlesford Community Policing Team

North Local Policing Area

Essex Police

Saffron Walden Police Station

Council Offices, London Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4ER

( 101 ext 395351

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Saturday’s Christmas Decorations day, sponsored by the Parish Council, led by Councillors Roy Ramm and Richard Freeman, and held at the Memorial Hall, was a tremendous success, with double last year’s attendance!

Children wrote over sixty letters to Santa, painted over eighty slices of timber and dozens of pine cones from Felsted trees. They wrapped pounds of reindeer food, made scores of crackers, mini Christmas trees and crafted lovely Christmas cards.  They also managed to eat a fair few chocolate biscuits – provided by the helpers!

But days like this take weeks of planning, shopping for materials and setting up the event.

The team started dressing the Memorial Hall at 10 am.  The doors opened at 1pm and we finally saw the last set of sticky fingers leave at about 4:50pm.  Then the big clear-up kicks off. We have to leave the hall as we found it: spotless!

So by around 6:30 we turned out the lights.

On behalf of the Parish Council, Richard Freeman and Roy Ramm would like to thank all involved. In particular we thank Hope and Ann Alexander (Elf and mum), Janet Johnson (Crafting Queen extraordinaire) Carol Freeman, Janet Ramm, Dawn, Suzie, Gill and Ola all for doing their bit!  A special thanks also to Martin from Falcon Tree Services who produced beautiful thin slices of Felsted timber.”

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Uttlesford District Council has asked us to share a link to a survey being carried out by Essex County Council regarding the future of public transport in the region.

The survey will likely inform the future approach taken to important subjects like bus services:

https://survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/7/p350931054797.aspx?ebrm=2&l=9

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