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The parish has one of the smallest populations in the District, although at the time of the Domesday Book, it had a flourishing village with its own market and fair. Sutton extends between the River Roach and the neighbouring Borough of Southend-on-Sea, …

RSPB Wallasea Island – The Wild Coast Project What is the Wild Coast Project? Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project is a landmark conservation and engineering scheme for the 21st century, on a scale never before attempted in the UK and the largest of its …

Introduction Council supports the principle of allowing memorials in parks and open spaces but only when permission is sought and the location is approved, and any licence or installation fee is paid. It is also mindful that these facilities have many …

Covering over 130 hectares, Hockley Woods are the largest remaining area of the wild wood, which covered Essex after the Ice Age 10,000 years ago. The woods are a complex mosaic of different trees, each species growing where conditions are most …

Kingley Wood stands on a steep hill slope beside the A127 and is visible as you approach Rayleigh from London. This small wood is one of the only surviving ancient woodlands in Rayleigh but it has a rich and varied wildlife and well-documented history. …

Magnolia Nature Reserve on the Ashingdon/Hawkwell border is a lovely area of habitat and can usually be found alive with bird life. One of the specialties that have been found most winters in good numbers is the increasingly rare Bullfinch. This Nature …

History and make up of the park The area currently known as Sweyne Park Open Space was originally war time agricultural land, after which it continued in agricultural tenancy until transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture to Rochford District Council …

The Development Management Submission Document was submitted to the Government for independent examination on 13 December 2013. This document sets out proposed detailed day-to-day planning policies through which development within the District will be …

Hockley Area Action Plan Adopted The Rochford District Hockley Area Action Plan was formally adopted by the Council on 25 February 2014 following confirmation from the Planning Inspector conducting the examination that the Plan was sound and legally …

Rochford District Council is required by section 18A of the Representation of the People Act 1983 (RPA 1983) to sub-divide its area into polling districts for the purposes of parliamentary elections and to designate polling places for each of those …