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Each year the Community Partnerships host a popular conference for representatives from our communities, voluntary organisations, public services and local businesses. This popular event gives us all the opportunity to share our knowledge and expertise and work together to benefit our communities and businesses in East Suffolk. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘East Suffolk: Bringing Ideas to Life’, and we focussed on confronting the growing inequalities amongst our residents. We explored some of the critical issues affecting our lives to identify how we can respond to them in a timely way within our communities, businesses and organisations.
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Annual Reports are published to the Strategic Planning Committee, in June/July each year, containing various statistics in relation to applications and enforcement cases dealt with by East Suffolk Council as Local Planning Authority. The reports are accompanied by various appendices which include graphs displaying the data for the preceding financial year and in some cases comparisons with previous years.
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East Suffolk Council is delighted to have been awarded a £90,000 grant from Historic England as part of the London Road, Lowestoft High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) to create and deliver community-led cultural activities on the high street over the next three years.
Read more about "High Street Heritage Action Zone awarded funding for cultural programme"...Nominations for the 2023 Quality of Place Awards are now closed. The winners will be announced soon.
Read more about "2023 Quality of Place award winners"...The Lowestoft Town Centre Masterplan is our response to the challenges Lowestoft town centre faces and provides a clear plan and direction to create a prosperous town centre whether as a place in which to live, work or have fun.
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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.
Read more about "Play spaces"...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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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.
Read more about "Statement of Accounts"...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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