Great Tey Parish Council

A vacancy has arisen on Great Tey Parish Council for a councillor. If you are interested please read the attached document below.

Notice of vacancy Great Tey Parish Council 21.3.2025

Defib and Basic First Aid Training – Register your interest

You will be aware that there are two defibrillators located in the Village; one outside the Village Hall and one in the Pub. 

Hopefully, the situation never arises where a resident needs to use the defibrillator but, if they did, we have been given an opportunity to host a training session on how to use this life saving equipment along with some basic first aid skills.  The session will last for approximately 2 hours and will be held in the Village Hall.  There are no dates yet as we want to get an idea of numbers and whether a weekend or evening session would be preferred.  If you are interested, please do email the clerk at Greatteyparishcouncil@outlook.com. 

If you cannot make that but would like some online training on how to use the “defibs” then check out the courses offered by Essex and Herts Air Ambulance service on Unlock Life-Saving Knowledge | Essex & Herts Air Ambulance

Have your Say – What is your vision for Great Tey?

The Parish council need your help in planning for the future of our village.  This is particularly important given the current focus by Colchester City Council on the development of the local plan and what that means in terms of allocations for new housing especially in rural areas. 

Whilst nothing has been decided yet, it would be great if we could gauge your thoughts on what the Village might need to support any potential growth.  Ideas could include more footways to make it safe for pedestrians to move around the village, traffic calming measures in key areas, more green spaces, and further development of our existing play area to include such things as an outdoor adult gym, sports facilities etc.  The list is not exhaustive and your ideas and views count so please do email the Parish council at Greatteyparishcouncil@outlook.com with your suggestions.  Once we have a rough idea of requirements we will then follow through with an online survey and village meeting that all will be invited to.  This will enable us to formulate a vision for the future.   

Save the date – Great Tey Annual Litter pick

Can you please spare some time to join the Parish Council in the annual Great Tey litter pick which will take place on Saturday 26^th April. Meeting at 10am at the Village Hall.

Volunteers will be provided with hi vis vests and all the necessary litter picking equipment including bags which will be collected when you finish. A great opportunity to get together with friends, family, and neighbours to do your bit to help preserve our environment and maintain pride in our lovely village.

Dear Residents 

The Parish council have received reports that, the Contractors working on the New Barn Road development site, have been starting work before the agreed time of 8am.  This has been addressed with Mersea Homes who have reiterated to those contractors that works on the development site must not commence before 8am.   

However, there are no time restrictions in place for the work taking place on the highway so Centaur are starting work at 7.30am to achieve all of the work needed during the allotted road closure timings.  Unfortunately, they were also a day late in starting due to the emergency works undertaken by Anglian Water at the top end of The Street.  They are therefore trying to make up time in order to minimise the impact of the road closure on nearby residents. 

Therefore, whilst the road closure is in place the contractors working on the highway may start at 7.30am so it is likely that you may hear the movement of heavy machinery associated to that road closure work only.  If that is not the case and work starts before 8am on the development site, then please do continue to let the Parish council know by email at greatteyparishcouncil@outlook.com

Apologies for the inconvenience that this causes. 

Please find attached letter outlining details of the A120 speed limit reduction proposal.

Essex County council have identified the A120 between Braintree and Marks Tey as needing speed limit measures to help contribute to a safer journey.

More information on the specific areas they plan to cover and how you can have your say is detailed within the letter below.

A120 Braintree to Marks Tey – Proposed speed limit reduction

On 20 Sep 1944, two Lancaster’s from 622 Sqn based at RAF Mildenhall and outward bound on an operational mission collided mid-air in bad weather and impacted on farmland between Earls Colne and Great Tey, Essex. 15 aircrew died instantly. 4 of the crew were from New Zealand & 1 from Canada. Over the last 80 years the knowledge of the crash locations had been gradually lost to history. Now, following research by the Earls Colne Heritage Museum permission has been granted to install a memorial at Holmwood Farm.

The Lancaster memorial ceremony can be viewed here https://www.shealolin.co.uk/lancaster-memorial for anyone that was unable to attend but wishes to watch.

Lancaster Memorial story

GREAT TEY COMMUNITY SPEEDWATCH GROUP

The group are always seeking volunteers to help to monitor and hopefully reduce speed of traffic through our village. If you have a few hours to spare each month and would like to help, please contact the parish clerk David Williams on  01787 224895 or by email at greatteyparishcouncil@outlook.com.