Shenfield

Shenfield Library’s transformation is coming on apace, with building work reaching a stage for me to be able to visit the site and have a look around last week.

We are heading for what will be – we hope – the first ‘normal’ Christmas since 2019.

The Government has announced today the proposals to reform ticket offices at railway stations across the UK, including Ingatestone, Shenfield, Brentwood and West Horndon in my Brentwood and Ongar constituency, will not go ahead.

Exciting things are ahead for the business areas and high streets of Brentwood, Ingatestone and Shenfield as work on the Brentwood Improvement District begins this month.

Essex County Council are launching a draft library plan and want your views.

6,500 homes and businesses across rural parts of Essex are set to be upgraded to lightning-fast gigabit broadband as part of the Government’s Project Gigabit programme.

As children break up for the summer holidays, and the weather, occasionally, brightens up to toast us and our gardens, thoughts turn to travel and time away from home.

It is a source of great frustration to many people living in Brentwood and Shenfield that the much vaunted Crossrail, or the Elizabeth Line as it is now known, is still not in full operation.

Brentwood Borough Council will receive £67,383 to help local high streets reopen and attract shoppers and tourists along with £116,694 for Epping Forest District Council.

It’s a year this week since the Prime Minister appeared on our TV screens to explain the UK was entering a period a lockdown to try to bring the rising rates of coronavirus infections under control.