Residents in one part of Essex will have their black general waste rubbish collected only once every three weeks starting ...

Clear sacks used for mixed recycling would be replaced with wheeled bins, the council said. It hoped the new approach would ...

Household waste collections are to be made three-weekly and recycling services divided up in an area following a council vote. Braintree District Council, in Essex, agreed to introduce fortnightly ...

An MP has accused the company that runs of it of using planning creep to change the site from its original planning ...

Allowing Jodie Marsh to keep lemurs would have attracted an influx of complaints from neighbours, a senior council officer ...

National Grid has been asked to spare a 300-year-old oak tree threatened by plans to build pylons across Essex. The oak ...

A media personality who appealed a decision to keep lemurs at her farm near Braintree will receive a decision next week.

Gabrielle Spray, 73, is the cabinet member for planning at Braintree Council, and she said there was “an intake of breath” when the council worked out the district’s housing target after government ...

Ms Marsh has been fighting Uttlesford District Council in court after her bid ... civil and planning issues at her Fripps Farm premises near Braintree in Essex. District Judge Christopher Williams ...

Braintree Council has agreed on ‘challenging’ controversial plans for general waste to be collected every three weeks across the district.

BLACK bags for general waste will only be collected every three weeks across the Braintree district, after council bosses agreed the controversial plan. The authority argues the new service, starting ...