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Play spaces
View the East Suffolk Play Area Strategy View an interactive map of the East Suffolk Play Area Strategy There are approximately 280 play areas in East Suffolk, with 63 of them being owned and managed by East Suffolk Council. Play provision refers to areas designated primarily for play and social interaction involving children and young people, such as equipped play areas, ball courts, skateboard areas and teenage shelters.
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East Suffolk projects benefit from funding
Three projects in East Suffolk have benefited from funding through the Suffolk Inclusive Growth Investment Fund (SIGIF) programme, established by Suffolk’s Public Sector Leaders as part of their response to Covid-19.
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Tackling terrorism with Prevent
The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a new legal duty on specified authorities to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". Prevent is about safeguarding people and communities from the threat of terrorism and is one of the four elements of CONTEST, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism by:
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Statement of Accounts
The Statement of Accounts is one of the key financial documents produced by the council and provides a detailed overview of the council's income and expenditure during the financial year and records the assets and liabilities as at the year end.
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Culture still the focus in Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk
Read more about "Culture still the focus in Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk"...A pledge has been made to ensure that arts and culture remain firmly in the spotlight in Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk, despite the combined areas not making the longlist for the UK City of Culture 2025 competition.
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Our Correspondence with Government
At the meeting of Full Council on 23 November 2022, councillors unanimously passed a motion to raise issues of water quality with Government and Anglian Water. As a result, in January 2023, the Chairman of East Suffolk Council wrote a letter to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Therese Coffey MP, to urge action to protect our water systems and engage with all stakeholders to work together to improve water quality. We received this reply from Defra. The chairman also wrote a letter to Anglian Water to urge action to reduce sewer discharges, improve water quality checks, equip sites with functioning monitors, improve communications with the council and reduce surface water run-off to prevent sewers from being overwhelmed.
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Supplying the council
East Suffolk Council currently spends around £84 million each year and we are keen to encourage a diverse range of suppliers to do business with us, both large and small.
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Public path order charges and agreements
Administration Charges
East Suffolk Council (ESC) charge a fee for the administrative costs incurred in dealing with a public path order application in accordance with the Local Authorities (Recovery of Costs for Public Path Orders) Regulations 1993 as amended by the Local Authorities (Charges for Overseas Assistance and Public Path Orders) Regulations 1996.
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Cemeteries and burials
The council is responsible for running cemeteries at:
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North Falls Offshore Windfarm
SSE Renewables and RWE Renewables have established a 50:50 equal joint venture company to develop the North Falls Offshore Wind Farm project, an extension to the operational Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of England in the southern North Sea. Offshore wind developers signed an Agreement for Lease with UK seabed managers, The Crown Estate in September 2020, to extend the existing 504MW wind farm by a further 504MW. The final capacity of the project will be determined during the development and consenting process.
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