Essex County Council is carrying out a Community Transport User and Awareness Survey 2026, to better understand how people use Community Transport, how aware residents are of the services available, and what difference these services make to local communities.
Find out more and take part in the survey here: https://consultations.essex.gov.uk/iptu/community-transport-user-and-awareness-survey-2026/
Essex County Council is carrying out a Community Transport User and Awareness Survey 2026, to better understand how people use Community Transport, how aware residents are of the services available, and what difference these services make to local communities.
Find out more and take part in the survey here: https://consultations.essex.gov.uk/iptu/community-transport-user-and-awareness-survey-2026/
The Essex County Council (ECC) Behaviour Change Savings Programme is funding a countywide campaign to increase household food recycling. The campaign is based on WRAP best practice, previous ECC-funded projects and findings from a recent Essex-wide waste composition analysis. This analysis found that more than 30% of material in general rubbish bins in Essex is food waste (with Uttlesford being as high as 37%).
Approximately 400,000 households across nine participating districts will receive:
The physical materials will be supported by a countywide communications campaign delivered through Love Essex and participating Waste Collection Authorities (WCAs). D2D Distribution Ltd will deliver the three physical items to participating households: the leaflet, liners and bin sticker.
Participating councils:
The campaign will run in areas that have:
The nine participating councils are:
Timeline:
August 2026
Pre-campaign communications begin. You may have seen some Facebook posts go out already, and the website also has a dedicated section: Brown food recycling caddy - Uttlesford District Council
September–November 2026
Campaign materials delivered to households, alongside supporting communications activity.
Uttlesford deliveries will begin during the week commencing 14 September 2026.
November–December 2026
Non-participation letters may be sent to areas where low participation has been identified and where WCAs are able to support this. To be confirmed.
December 2026
Data collection, project review and completion of any remaining deliveries.
Measuring success:
ECC will assess the impact of the campaign by comparing food recycling tonnage from Waste Transfer Stations with:
Useful information:
Find out more on here: https://www.loveessex.org/ideas/recycle/food-recycling
Caddy sticker:
Cllr John Evans, and Portfolio Holder for the Environment & Climate Change, Cllr Neil Reeve, supported by UDC Heritage and Climate Change Officers, have undertaken work regarding guidance in respect of Energy Efficiency in Listed Buildings.
This has now been completed and has been published on UDC website here: https://www.uttlesford.gov.uk/article/5772/Energy-efficiency-and-historic-buildings
Residents may find this useful for enquiries about the subject.
Entries have now opened for this year’s Stebbing 10 - the annual 10 mile race held in the village on Remembrance Sunday.
Head to the website to enter: https://www.nice-work.org.uk/e/stebbing-10-10036
The weekend garden skip collection will commence in Stebbing on Sunday, 1st March. It will occur every Sunday between 9.45 and 10.45, off The Downs, Stebbing.
Stebbing Parish Council
