Tag: Nature Recovery

  • Urban Habitat: Burnham Library

    Urban Habitat: Burnham Library

    The planned extension to the Burnham Library building is interesting. The planning documents reveal it will house a Family Hub Delivery site, relocating the existing Family service from a temporary building at Ormiston Rivers Academy to this central location. This is all to be applauded. The service deserves a permanent home and facilities. Co-locating it…

  • The Lost Words

    The Lost Words

    By national government edict the 15 councils in ‘Greater Essex’ must reorganise to form new unitary authorities through a process of Local Government Reorganisation. This will change the current two-level council system into one in which there are new, bigger councils called unitary councils. I’ve been reviewing the four competing proposals submitted by existing councils…

  • Let a Thousand Knepps Bloom

    Let a Thousand Knepps Bloom

    Yesterday, Maldon District Council (MDC) shared on social media that they would be working in partnership with a property consultancy company that has launched a Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme with the Braxted Park estate. The post and linked article are light on detail, and there’s nothing about it on the MDC website, but this…