9th April, 2013
Billed as ‘The View from the Top’, the bottom up approach from Colchester Borough Council Chief Executive Adrian Pritchard at the old Bus Station Waiting Room on Monday evening somehow managed to meet in the middle. After much dialogue about opening up new channels between CBC – both online and offline – it was very [...]
9th April, 2013
We’ve already blogged the tease for the return of Jane’s Walk weekend in Colchester over the May Bank Holiday. I Walk the Line on the evening of 4th May is the musical celebration of all things urban-ish around Sunny Colch. What we weren’t expecting however is to be able to type with no sense of [...]
8th April, 2013
It’s not often that the esteemed members of the Planning Committee at Colchester Borough Council get to consider a retrograde application, but the appearance of the former Quayside Cafe down at the Hythe certainly fits into this category. A late amendment has been shoehorned [PDF] into the agenda sheet for the meeting of the Planning [...]
7th April, 2013
Colchester: it’s been a little cold out there of late, hasn’t it? We’re hearing that the start of the week is going to warm up slightly, but the last thing that Sunny Colch [ha!] seems fit for right now is a CARNIVAL. But wait! What’s this? The ACE 2013 Colchester Carnival is creeping up on [...]
6th April, 2013
All SIX of the Colchester Borough Council Cllrs that currently double up their jobs by sitting on Essex County Council have put their names forward for the next set of local elections taking place at the County level. Elections for Essex County Council take place on 2nd May. The full list of candidates has now [...]
6th April, 2013
Here’s a half-decent story showing that BIG multi-national corporations aren’t all about selling slightly inferior products to consumers at the expense of hyperlocal traders. No one is accusing Halfords of that of course [phew] but we can confidently say that the bicycle retailer is making a move in the right direction by partnering up with [...]
5th April, 2013
Run along – nothing to see here. But when you have *possibly* the most beautiful park in all of the UK right bang slap in the centre of your town, then a bit of a jog seems like a jolly good idea. And it’s not about you joggers who go round and round and round… [...]
5th April, 2013
So… Do you enjoy dancing? Yep. Would you like to learn new ways to create movement using a variety of different styles? Um, suppose. Now is your chance, come to this workshop for children aged 8-12 years. Ah, looks like it’s another Saturday morning spent rummaging through the charity shops of Sunny Colch then. Act [...]
5th April, 2013
Talk of tempting The Chromic out for a Midnight Walk around the streets of Sunny Colch are slightly misguided. Horlicks has been sipped, and the PJ’s have come-a-calling by 9:30pm these days. But that shouldn’t stop any ladies of Britain’s Oldest Recorded heading off for a Midnight Walk to help raise funds for St Helena [...]
4th April, 2013
ONE item dominates the agenda for when the esteemed members of the CBC Planning Committee next meets at the Town Hall on 11th April: Tiptree Jam Factory. Actually it’s FOUR items, all sandwiched [aha!] into one. But never let a bit of hyperbole get in the way of a hyperlocal blog post intro. You may [...]
