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Post Code Update

As you may be aware the Parish Council, on behalf of Local Residents, have been campaigning for a Change to the Post Code to properly link us into Hertfordshire and end the confusion caused by the Harlow Essex address.

The Post Office supplies a database of addresses which companies/Services use in a variety of ways. Most of the nearby villages are correctly identified as being Hertfordshire with the Exception of Eastwick and Gilston.

Despite the media campaign, many correspondences with the Post Office, Post Com and Post Watch they have refused to correct their database.

We are now discussing the best course of action with Lindfield Parish who were successful in getting the Post Office to correct their database. Lindfield have been very helpful and made some very useful suggestions.

Key to getting the Post Code changed is ensuring that we have the full support of local Residents. Can you please use the contact point to let us know if you are in favour of changing the Post Code or not.

What is vital is examples of where the Post Code have had an adverse effect on you. Examples may include :-

Response from Emergency Services

Lost / Delayed post

Financial impact

Confusion on deliveries of goods

Problems created by official confusion over Essex and Hertfordshire location

Please give us the information that will help this campaign.

Contact Peter Dyble Now .....E-mail

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Harlow North

The East of England Plan contains proposals for “at least 10,000” dwellings but Ropemaker Properties Limited (BP Pension Fund) have put forward a proposal for an urban extension to the north of the existing town of Harlow covering over 3,700 acres of greenfield land (some Green belt) with approximately 25,000 dwellings and 60,000 residents at densities of up to 40 dwellings per hectare equivalent to 20 houses on a single football pitch

It will engulf Eastwick and Gilston and come right up to the edge of
High Wych, Hunsdon, Sawbridgeworth and Widford.

Please visit the following sites for more detailed information and views.

www.speakuphertfordshire.org.uk - Provides information from Herts County Council to help you respond to the East of England Plan by 16 March.

www.stopharlownorth.com - Full background and information on STOP Harlow North group’s campaign - research, views, actions and the overall timetable of events.

www.cpreherts.org.uk - The Government's big review of house building suggests we may need to double the number of houses being built each year. The Campaign to Protect Rural England disagrees and thinks such house building will harm the countryside unacceptably, without solving our housing problems.

To see a map in PDF format showing Ropemaker Properties Ltd land holdings in our Parish please click HERE this requires you to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC. This can be freely downloaded from here www.adobe.com Note this is rather a large file and it may be more convenient to download it to your computer for veiwing offline. This is done by right clicking the HERE link and selecting “save target as” you can then select a folder to save to in the window that appears.

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RECYCLING

East Herts Council is delighted to say that since September 2006; together we’ve collected 3,120 tonnes of cans, glass and paper.  Or enough to make one million new baked bean tins, 3.3million jam jars and eight million newspapers.  That’s brilliant.

To remind everyone how easy it is to recycle cans, glass and papers the council has issued new leaflets. They’ll be dropping onto doormats during Valentine’s week – with a new heart and ‘I love recycling’ theme, they’re sure to encourage everyone to recycle more of their waste.

Remember recycling just ONE aluminium can saves enough energy to watch three hours of television – that’s an entire episode of Dancing on Ice and the results programme.  So please remember – put all your food and drink cans, pet food cans, aerosols, biscuit/sweet tins and household cleaning product tins in your green box for East Herts Council to collect.

Recycling ONE glass bottle saves enough energy to power your home computer for 20 minutes – just enough time for you to check your e-mails. So please remember to recycle all your jam jars and sauce bottles, wine and beer bottles and other empty glass jars and bottles in your green box.

Just think – SEVEN days after you’ve recycled your paper it could be back on the shelves of your local newsagent ready for you to buy again.  Please recycle all of your white paper. If you’re not sure whether you can recycle it, tear a piece of the paper and if it’s white inside – you can recycle it.

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