Weeknotes 02025 Q1 W6

Over the weekend we received the disappointing news from Essex County Council that they were unwilling to let the Burnham Library Orchard project go ahead, with some not very detailed reasons about ‘infrastructure’ which seem to pertain to the library building itself which would have been unaffected by the proposal.

Burnham-on-Crouch Library

Tuesday. The Dengie Hundred Bus Users Group (DHBUG) monthly meeting. Hints that the D1 bus might be under threat of being withdrawn now, another hit to Dengie services.

Wednesday – I signed some documents as part of the process of formally registering eMpower Maldon as a Community Benefit Society. John Philpot’s done most of the admin work getting us to this point. We should be registered before the Community Led Energy Planning meeting in Maldon town in March.

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We shall encounter, counting, face to face

Thoughts on the General Election and Reform UK in Maldon constituency.

Last Thursday, I stayed up all night for the first time in years. It was the UK General election of course and despite the perils of displaced slumber I was minded to burn the midnight oil and watch the disgraced fall. I didn’t have the comforts of home and TV to assuage the sleep deprivation, however, because I had a formal role to play as a ‘counting agent’ invigilating the manual tallying in my constituency. We got the last bus to Maldon, had a drink in the Queen’s Head and walked down to the Blackwater Leisure Centre as the sunlight disappeared.

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