Residents in Harwood Road, and many of the roads off it, are becoming very aware that parking locally is more of a problem, as well as across the whole of Chelmsford.

With the usual difficulties at the start and end of the school day, we now find that commuter parking is also becoming an issue. Since other roads close by will soon be part of the residents parking permit scheme, commuters and others are moving this way, parking and walking into town.

In July 2016, in the aftermath of the referendum, the Liberal Democrats were a lone voice calling for a final say on whatever deal was done on Brexit.

Last week, an estimated 700,000 people marched on the streets of London, calling for a people's vote on Brexit.

That makes it the biggest protest since the Iraq War.

Jude is your Essex County Councillor.

She will be at the Lunch Club, Church Of The Holy Spirit, Forest Drive on the following Wednesdays from 1pm - 2pm.

The Civic Society and a range of other local groups have arranged a series of events under the title "Chelmsford in the Great War"

• Visit to Stow Maries airfield tomorrow (20 October)
• Great War Books: Meet the Authors 2nd November 7.00 pm in Anglia Ruskin University
• Concert in the Cathedral on 7th November, City of London Sinfonia

Essex County Council has been challenged to ensure that careless motorists - not taxpayers - should pay for repairs when they damage Essex CC equipment.

Cllr Mike Mackrory (Leader of the Lib Dem Opposition at Essex CC) asked the Cabinet Member for Highways about the council's policy for recovering costs of damage to highway items caused by road traffic collisions.

The Essex Health and Wellbeing Strategy is an important document that brings together many agencies across the county to agree a range of topics on which joint working is required - to improve health in the county. The strategy is on the Essex County Council website at this link.

There are supporting notes and action points from the 18 July meeting where it was adopted also on the ECC website.

Councillors have called for the county council's highways contract to be publicly scrutinised in the wake of Chelmsford's Army and Navy flyover closing.

The Leaders of the Opposition Councillor Mike Mackrory and Councillor Stephen Robinson, both Lib Dems, have argued that Essex County Council's current contract with Ringway Jacobs is "too expensive" for the services it provides..

Cllrs. Stephen Robinson and Lee Ashley have launched a survey on speeding in roads in St Andrews ward that are used as a 'rat-run'.

https://chelmsford-libdems.org.uk/en/survey/pines-highfield-sunningdale-roads-speeding-survey