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Canewdon St Nicholas

Welcome

Canewdon is a large village set between Ashingdon, Paglesham and Stambridge.

The village boasts a public house, one village shop, two churches, two duck ponds, a large village green and a primary school. There is also a recreation ground with a large play area, basketball court and skateboard ramp, cricket and football pitch. We also have a large village hall.

The Parish Council meets the first Wednesday of the month (excluding August) at 7.15pm in the Village Hall.  The agenda, associated paperwork and minutes of the meetings are available to view on this website.

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Help shape the future of travel and transport in the East!

Transport East is running a survey to better understand how you travel across Essex. The data provided will help shape decisions on future transport investment in the local area.

Whether you walk, drive, cycle, take the bus or train, the views of people living and working in Canewdon are important to help us understand how as a partnership, we can work to improve access to work, education, health services and opportunities for socialising. The information you can provide will be make a difference towards making the East a thriving region.

The survey is open until 17 April and you can take part here: https://alligator.focusvision.com/survey/selfserve/54a/240252?list=99

Completed surveys have the chance of winning a £100 Love2Shop voucher!

For more information on Transport East: www.transporteast.gov.uk

 

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Upgrade your Broadband Network

There is still time to pledge your interest in the upgrade of broadband network within our area.  It is simple to do via the OpenReach website.

Partners team up to launch online safety map

Women and girls asked about their perception of safety in Essex.

A new online map that women and girls in Essex will be able to use to highlight areas they feel safe or unsafe has been launched in Essex.

The map is being rolled out across the county jointly by Essex County Council, Essex Police and the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex. The project is supported by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service and researchers at Nottingham Trent University.

Similar maps have been used across the country and give women and girls the opportunity to drop a pin on a particular area that they have felt unsafe and state why.

While the map is open for anyone to use, the primary audience is women and girls over 13-years-old.

This initiative follows extensive research by the council’s Safety Advisory Group that shows 16% of women involved felt unsafe in our towns and cities during the day and 47% felt unsafe at night.

This latest initiative is part of the partners’ collective commitment in making the county safer for women and girls and also helping them to feel safer too.

The map can be accessed on a desktop computer or on a phone or tablet. Users can drop a pin to a specific location and write why they felt safe or unsafe there. Other users will be able to see this data too.

All of the data collected will be used by partners to inform their work going forward.

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex Roger Hirst said: “Nobody should feel unsafe in their own community, but the sad fact is that many women and girls do. We have to change that and together we are committed to making our communities be safer and feel safer for women and girls.

“We are already using the data we collect around reported incidents to inform our prevention work but this new platform provides a much stronger, direct route for women and girls to tell us where they feel unsafe so together we can act. The site is designed to be interactive so you can vote up areas already highlighted or highlight a new area for others to see. It is all strictly anonymous but the information you give will make a difference.

“It is up to us all to ensure everybody in our society can live their life in safety. We know women and girls are more likely to be the victims of harassment, stalking and abuse. We also know certain areas create a sense of fear, but it doesn’t have to be this way. We can change it, we can make our communities safer and it is up to all of us to make that happen.”

Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Levelling Up, Communities and the Economy at Essex County Council, Councillor Louise McKinlay said: “Everyone in Essex has the right to live their life free of fear and free of harassment.

“While police and partners in the county are working hard to make the county safer, we know many women and girls in the county still feel afraid in some areas, whether that be at day or night. This is not acceptable.

“This initiative will be valuable in finding out where in the county women and girls feel most unsafe and why.

“We have already done a lot of work to understand how women in particular perceive safety in the county, but this map will allow us to go one step further by gaining insight at a hyper-local level. We can then address the issues raised and bring about change.”

Force tactical lead for Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) at Essex Police, Chief Supt Claire Talbot said: “Reducing Violence Against Women and Girls remains a top priority for us at Essex Police and there is already so much ongoing activity across the county to help reduce these offences.

“The Commonplace Platform will be a vital tool to support this work as it will help us to understand, in more depth, the needs of the communities we serve, especially the concerns of women and girls. We don’t want to assume we know where the problems areas are, we want to give the public the opportunity to tell us.

“This will then assist us in focussing our efforts in terms of visibility and reassurance as well as crime prevention. We are committed to working as part of the Community Safety Partnership to help people, encourage them to engage with us and to keep them safe.”

Forthcoming Parish Council meetings

06
Apr
Full Council Meeting
Congregational Church, High Street, Canewdon - 7pm
13
Apr
Annual Parish Meeting
Congregational Church, High Street, Canewdon - 7pm
20
Apr
Planning Committee
Congregational Church, High Street, Canewdon - 6:45pm
20
Apr
Allotments Committee
Congregational Church, High Street, Canewdon - 7pm