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• First Bus and Arriva Remembrance Sunday Services Update

  07/11/2025
  5,700 buses across the country providing free journeys Wear military uniform, badges or show driver Service ID card when boarding First Bus has a strong affiliation with the Armed Forces, with many veterans working for the business   The First Bus fleet of 5,700 buses across the UK is enabling serving Armed Forces personnel, cadets and veterans to travel for free to events commemorating Remembrance Sunday on 9 November and Armistice Day on Tuesday 11 November...

• Strut Safe Scheme

  07/11/2025
  First Buses are working with Strut Safe, a volunteer-run support line offering a friendly voice to anyone heading home alone in the UK...

• Advance Notice Little Wakering Hall Lane Closure

  01/10/2025
  ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 - SECTION 14(1) Temporary Traffic Regulation Order of Little Wakering Hall Lane, Great Wakering Please click on the following link https://one...

• Rochford Community Police Newsletter To End

  16/09/2025
  I email to inform you that the monthly Rochford newsletter sent to you is no longer being distributed...

• MOD Shoeburyness - Exceptional Range Activity: 16, 17 or 18 September 2025

  03/09/2025
  This is to advise you that further to notification sent to you on 6 August that gave notice of an exception to the noise management process for an activity at MOD Shoeburyness on 18 or 19 September, there has been a change to the scheduled activity dates...

• ECC Bus Services Consultation

  27/08/2025
  Essex County Council are pleased to announce the launch of the Public Consultation on Supported Local Bus Services, and we would greatly appreciate your support in promoting it widely within your communities...

• MOD Shoeburyness - Exceptional Range Activity: 18 or 19 September 2025

  27/08/2025
  This is to inform you that on one of the following days, noise generated by an activity at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Test and Evaluation Range at Shoeburyness may exceed the usual self-imposed limit of 125 decibels (dB)...

• Parish Council Emergency Bleed Cabinets Installed

  25/07/2025
  Great Wakering Parish Council has purchased two emergency bleed cabinets available 24 hours a day to treat catastrophic bleeds...

• Give Your Views on Local Government Re-organisation

  25/07/2025
  Let’s give our residents an opportunity to consider all the local government reorganisation options to help us decide “We are here to represent our residents and I want to give our residents the best chance of a future unitary model that they could support”...

• Public Consultation Event for Friends Farm/Shoebury Road Development next week.

  08/07/2025
    The details of the upcoming consultation event are:  Date: Tuesday 15th July        Time: 2pm to 7pm  Location: Great Wakering Community Centre, 90 High Street, Great Wakering, SS3 0EJ Residents can also view information and provide feedback online via the dedicated project website www...