NEW HOUSING FIGURES REVEALED FOR ROCHFORD DISTRICT

NEW HOUSING FIGURES REVEALED FOR ROCHFORD DISTRICT

“The Council sets out a policy allocating the total number of housing units to the top tier (90 per cent) and second tier (10 per cent) settlements , to gain a smaller number of large sites which will deliver the greatest number of infrastructure improvements. The split is as follows:

Completions 2001 -2006: 900

Rochford/Ashingdon : 1000

Hockley/Hawkwell : 400

Rayleigh : 1800

Smaller Settlements 500

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TOTAL : 4600
(By “1st Tier ” this means towns and large villages - Rayleigh, Rochford, Ashingdon, Hockley and Hawkwell. By “2nd Tier” this means Hullbridge, Canewdon and Great Wakering. “Completions 2001-2006″ means houses already built.)

Planning Application Refused in Rectory Road

06/01077/OUT

Demolish Existing Dwellings and Construct Two Storey Building to Provide 4 No. Two Bedroomed and 4 No. One Bedroomed Flats With Access and Parking Area.
66-68 Rectory Road Hawkwell

At a Meeting of the Planning Committee of Hawkwell Parish Council, I was pointedly asked, in front of members of the public, by Parish Councillor, Alan James (who represents the Hawkwell Residents’ Association), how I was going to vote on this planning application if it came before the Development Committee of Rochford District Council.

There was a clear inference by reference to a very controversial series of planning applications on one site in Hockley that I would not be supporting residents.  

Anti Social Behaviour and Vandalism

I recognised the issue of policing in my election address as a matter of concern not just for Hawkwell but the whole Rochford District. This is not just an issue for Hawkwell or its representives to address alone.

The situation will not be improved across the District unless the whole District Council acts and obtains the level of policing we require from the newly merged Rayleigh and Southend Division. As I said in my election address the Council is still awaiting the Divisional Commander, Chief Superintendent Folkard to come to a Council Meeting and explain the basis of resourcing we have and challenge that is insufficient.

In the meantime I have advised Essex Police again, and just a few weeks ago, of the concerns of residents about young people coming into Hockley and Hawkwell by train because they have been dispersed by law from Rochford. There have been joint operations between the Transport Police and Essex Police at Hockley Rail Station in the past and I have asked that this operation be renewed. I have also asked Essex Police to increase patrols in Hawkwell. Read more

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History of Hawkwell

By Margaret Chambers, Local History Recorder for Hawkwell. Copyright © 2001

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History of Foulness

The Isle of Foulness lies just off of the Essex coast near Shoebury. The area was already considered an island back in roman times and the name seems to be derived from old English fulga-naess meaning “wild birds nest”. Foulness manor in 1235 was granted to Hugh de Burg Earl of Kent , then in 1271 passed down to Guy de Rochford and then his nephew John and then Robert de Rochford in 1324. After this date it is recorded in the records as part of the estate of William de Bohun Earl of Hereford until 1373 when the was no male heirs and the estate passed into the hands of James Butler 5th Earl of Ormond in June 1447. In 1527 the then 7th earl of Ormond relinquished to Henry the 8th part of his estates including the Isle of Foulness and in 1473 was passed to Thomas Grey 1st Marquis of Dorset. From Thomas Grey the estate passed to his younger brother Lord Richard Grey who was unfortunately accused by Richard Duke of Gloucester of estranging him from Edward V King of England and beheaded in 1483. In 1485 the estates passed back into the hands of Thomas Butler 7th Earl of Ormond until 1527 when the estate passed back into the hands of the king and were subsequently handed to Thomas Boleyn and later to his daughter Mary who married William Carey. The estate stayed in the Carey family until 1549 when it was sold to Sir Richard Rich Lord Chancellor of England. On Lord Rich’s death in 1567 it remained in the family until 1673 when Mary widow of the last Earl of Warwick Charles died, on her death it passed to Daniel Finch 2nd Earl of Nottingham and remained in the Finch family until 1915. On the 13th of July 1915 the entire estate including Foulness manor was sold and came into the hands of the War Department. By the end of WW1 the whole island with the exception of church, rectory and mission hall at Courts End and the school had one owner. Baliff’s records show that for most of its history the Isle of Foulness has been used for agricultural farming but living conditions on the island for the workers on the most part were appalling. There was no fresh water supply plus a continual shortage of housing caused overcrowding and illness for those who lived on the island. There also was a problem of reaching the Essex mainland which until 1922 was only available by ferry after that time a new military road from Great Wakering opened.

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