News
Help us decorate the Christmas Tree!
On Friday, 25 November, the Parish Council once again installed a large Christmas tree on the Market Place. This year, to make it more fun, we have decided to ask not only school children, but all residents to help us decorate it! This year’s theme is Reuse and...
Summer Show 2023 – contact us to participate!
The Parish Council has set up an action group to organise the Summer Show 2023 in conjunction with the Ingatestone & Fryerning Horticultural Society who announced the theme of the next show: Bees. We are very keen to involve as many local organisations and...
Progress on Rewilding the Churchyard
This year, we have instigated a community garden within the grounds of St Mary and St Edmund Church. Aside from the Church, this initiative involves IFPC, the Anglo European School, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Youth Offending Team and another Borough Council,...
Warm Welcome Space – community hubs
Warm Welcome space - community hubs Please click on the above link for a list of warm spaces in the borough and when they will be open.
Project Gigabit and the Public Review
£100,000 Community Winter Warmth and Welcome Spaces Fund opens for applications
Grants made available by Essex County Council to create safe spaces which are free to the Essex public this winter. Community groups and Parish and Town Councils across Essex are being urged to apply for grants of up to £1,000 to help them provide warm and welcoming...
The Great Big Green Weekend
The Great Big Green Week was celebrated by the Climate Emergency Working Group and La Pomme with stalls in the Market Place. Residents learnt how to establish their current carbon footprint (via an EPC) so you they can consider how to reduce it. How to change one...
Community Garden progresses
An early Autumn working group met at the site on 4th September to clear the pathways from the land adjacent to Footpath 38 leading to Bell Mead. The planting in the raised bed has survived the summer heat well and a path in front of the seating is being commissioned....
Great Big Green Week 24 Sept – 2 Oct
The Great Big Green Week is a nationwide celebration of action on climate change, taking place across the UK from the 24 September to 2 October and Ingatestone and Fryerning are proud to be joining in. This Saturday, the Climate Emergency Working Group will have a...
A Moment of Reflection on the Eve of the Funeral of Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
8pm, Sunday 18th September 2022 Ingatestone and Fryerning Parish Council invite you to take part in a collective one minute’s silence on the above date. There is no formal location for this event and residents are invited to stand outside their homes at this time....
Her Majesty The Queen’s Lying in State
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published guidance and information for those wishing to attend Her Majesty The Queen's Lying in State. Please note that the route for the queue will be published on the following website at 10pm this evening....
UPDATE – A12 closure in September
E-bulletin 7th September - change to closure dates on the A12 A12 Margaretting Bypass Reconstruction Scheme update I’m writing to you with an update regarding the start of our work on the A12 Margaretting Bypass reconstruction scheme between junctions 13 and 15. Due...
IFPC Neighbourhood Plan made
The 4th August 2022 Referendum result: The Parish has spoken. What does your ‘YES’ vote yesterday achieve? It means that community-led planning has come to Ingatestone and Fryerning and we can implement the policies within our Neighbourhood Plan. The Parish now has...
Response to pylon scheme
Dear residents, This letter is written on behalf of all your councillors (Lesley Wagland (Essex CC & Brentwood BC) Noelle Hones (Brentwood BC) Darryl Sankey (Brentwood BC) and Paul Jeater (on behalf of Ingatestone and Fryerning Parish Council). It concerns the...