Archive for the “Working for you all year round not just at election time” category

Tesco Warley application gets sneaky

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on June 19, 2013

I was shocked tonight to find that the SIX applications for Tesco on Warley Hill has bypassed the weekly list of planning recommendations and bounced straight on to Tuesday’s Planning Committee agenda without allowing ward councillors to speak to their (…)

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Your wish is my command (well, I’ll try…!)

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on June 5, 2013

Recently, I had a year’s break from being a councillor.  It wasn’t planned (!!!) but it did give me time to reflect. I did realise that I had become too entrenched in the Town Hall shenanigans and the “politics of (…)

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Playing field – Pastoral Way/Warley Hill

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on June 5, 2013

Recently, I was alerted to a situation where a group playing sports had cordoned off most of the field and were preventing people from using it. I asked then, but have just chased up for a response, as I don’t (…)

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Post box update

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on June 5, 2013

Trying to get things for the community these days is like pushing treacle up hill! Remember I asked Royal Mail to see if we could get an extra postbox to cover Rollason Way and the hundreds of new properties. A (…)

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Scrutinising Again

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 19, 2013

Now Annual Council has been held, I can announce that I have been appointed as the Chair of Brentwood Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee. This is the committee that, as the name suggests, scrutinises what the council does.  Last year (…)

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Outside the (post)box

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 19, 2013

              Something forward thinking for #BrentwoodWest, rather than just complaining about what can’t be done! Although we do an awful lot on line these days, we do all still post stuff with a stamp (despite it (…)

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Brentwood Housing Survey

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 16, 2013

So, there is going to be a Housing Survey – don’t miss your chance to tell the council what you think.  This is important and there’s a short window for responses! From the Council’s website: More than 5,000 Brentwood residents (…)

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Planning recommendations w.e. 10th May 2013

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 12, 2013

In #Brentwoodwest this week there are applications in Crescent Road/Junction Road, London Road, Hubert Road and Warley Hill. Please note these are NOT yet decisions – I am able to refer to planning committee now. – CLEVER TOTS DAY NURSERY, (…)

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Planning applications week ending 3rd May 2013

by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 4, 2013

  There are no recommendations this week, but a number of applications have been received from Tesco for the Warley Hill site. 13/00406/FUL – Installation of 6 no. bollards to front; 13/00407/FUL – Installation of plant equipment on the roof (…)

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by Cllr Karen Chilvers on May 2, 2013

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