Time to act on empty homes

January 4, 2018 in News

We call on Rochford District Council to make use of the funding from Government to bring empty homes back into use. It’s time that more is done to tackle homelessness locally. [emailpetition id="2"] Thank you for joining our campaign to bring empty homes in Rochford District back into use. Will you do one more thing to help our campaign succeed by sharing it on social media?

You might also be interest in these posts...

Anyone in There?

Sitting at the top of Crown Hill, lies an empty shell of a building formerly a public toilets. It’s a stark reminder to me in which the way a Council handles ‘investment’ projects. It should be remembered that the public toilet project which essentially a strategy constructed to shift the cost to local town and

Read More

Infrastructure first before mass development – it’s almost common sense…

Today the Echo News reports that campaigners are asking Basildon council to force developers to provide the infrastructure to support the homes before any development is commenced. Surely this is almost common sense? Asking developers to put their hand in their pocket is truly shocking, and even before they’ve seen any return on their investment but

Read More

District Council Committees

When you become an elected member of the council, your party is allocated a number of seats on different committees. I’ve been ‘lucky’ enough to have been asked which committees I had a preference to. I’ve chosen development, licensing and investment.  Why did I chose these particular committees? Firstly, there’s development. Everyone, residents and councillors,

Read More

About the author 

James Newport

Essex County Councillor for Rayleigh North, Rochford District Councillor for Downhall & Rawreth and Rayleigh Town Councillor for Sweyne.