Category: rECOnnectDengie
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Stitching the Path: Connecting Disjointed Walk & Cycle Routes 1
A mission objective of the rECOnnect Dengie project is to improve the active travel infrastructure on the Dengie and get a safe network of routes connecting all the settlements. As I’ve noted previously, there are lots of good words about achieving this sort of thing in the strategy documents produced from the national level down…
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Why Don’t We Do It in the Road?
A couple of days ago, Essex Highways released a press release about their plans for rolling out electric vehicle charging in the county, and used the opportunity to ask people where they thought the chargers should go. Their survey is pretty minimal, but there was enough in it to raise my concern. I’ve long been…
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Better Walk/Wheel/Cycle Routes
Next week, work commences on a solar farm south of Keelings Road, Dengie. This will involve constructing an access road from Keelings Road to Asheldham Brook, which could be made suitable for cycle access. From Asheldham Brook it’s only 2km to The Marshes, Southminster through land (Northwycke Farm) with a single owner: Lincoln College, Oxford.
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Weeknotes 02025 Q1 W5
DCAP We had our monthly meeting on Thursday and tried to do some Thermal Imaging of 4 homes at the same time – which was ambitious. The only way to make it work was to split the group in two and I wasn’t really happy with things working out that way. Earlier in the week…
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Park It
Maldon District Council (MDC) is considering charging for the car parks in Burnham-on-Crouch. Some people are annoyed and have started a petition against charging, including friends and people I know. The Town Council has posted a notice promoting the petition on its official noticeboards and some councillors have announced their support for the petition. I…
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Link up Rural Areas
The latest Essex cycling & walking plan is out for consultation. I’ve just taken a quick look and this is my hot take. 4 of the proposed cycle routes go through the Dengie: Mid Essex Cycle Route 12 (Burnham-on-Crouch-Southminster-Tillingham-Bradwell-on-Sea) Mid Essex Cycle Route 13 (Maldon-Latchingdon-Mayland-Bradwell-on-Sea) Maldon Green Link 11 (Mundon-Purleigh-StowMaries) Maldon Green Link 19 (Cold…
