EPOA Parking Guidance Consultation for Essex What are EPOA consulting on? Essex Planning Officers Association (EPOA) has been leading work to revise the parking standards guidance to inform new development across Essex. Parking guidance is referred to in policy in...
Closes today
At Essex County Council, we want to help residents in Wickford to have the opportunity to walk and cycle to school. Walking and cycling have been proven to provide many benefits including improvement to peoples physical and mental health and well-being, and decrease pollution and noise. We want to...
Closes 21 December 2023
At Essex County Council, we want to help residents in Brentwood to have the opportunity to walk and cycle to school. Walking and cycling have been proven to provide many benefits including improvement to peoples physical and mental health and well-being, and decrease pollution and noise. We want to...
Closes 22 December 2023
At Essex County Council, we want to help residents in Colchester to have the opportunity to walk and cycle to school. Walking and cycling have been proven to provide many benefits including improvement to peoples physical and mental health and well-being, and decrease pollution and noise. We want...
Closes 22 December 2023
This survey is for residents in Brentwood to help us understand your travel habits and how the streets are experienced, including what your barriers are and what would encourage you to walk and cycle for shorter trips more often. In particular this survey seeks to monitor the...
Closes 22 December 2023
Essex County Council - Budget consultation 2024-25 Everyone’s Essex: Let’s Talk As Essex County Council shapes our financial plans for 2024/25 and beyond, we want to hear from local people about their views and values. To participate in the consultation, and to find out...
Closed 3 December 2023
This consultation has now closed. Thank you for taking part and sharing your views. The responses are currently being independently analysed, and the report will be available here in February 2024. If you have any queries before the report is available, please contact ...
Closed 22 November 2023
Closed 22 November 2023
Closed 19 November 2023
This consultation has now closed. Thank you for taking part and sharing your views. The responses are currently being analysed, and the report will be available here in the new year. In 2022, Essex County Council (ECC) started a pilot requiring users to book visits to recycling centres. It...
Closed 19 November 2023
Here are some of the issues we have consulted on and their outcomes. See all outcomes
We asked about our proposal for a redesigned Carers Offer which includes:
There was broad agreement from respondents for the proposed Carers Offer. The full report can be viewed here
Insight from the online engagement was used to finalise the proposed Carers Offer Model. It will help to ensure that these offers of support come together to ensure effective support for carers in Essex.
The purpose of this survey, led by Essex Youth Service and Essex Public Health, was to gather the views of young people on a range of topics relating to relationships and sexual health, understanding what further information and support they would like and their preferred ways in which to access it.
Following on from our first Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) survey in 2021 gathering the views of 16-25 year olds, this year we continued our work with young people to co-design survey questions for 11-25 year olds. Age appropriate questions were developed for young people in Years 7-9, young people in Years 10-11 and young people aged 17-25.
3,676 young people responded to the survey.
Headline findings:
Young people in Years 7-9 and Years 10-11 would most like to know more about healthy and respectful relationships and consent and the law. For young people aged 17-25, they would most like to know more about steps to take after unprotected sex, and information on choices around pregnancy.
Around 60% of those in Years 7-9 are aware of the Essex Sexual Health Service and Essex Youth Services website, compared to just under 50% of those in Years 10-11 and those aged 17-25. This response may be skewed by significantly larger proportions of Years 7-9 completing the survey in areas where schools are more proactively promoting these services.
A significant proportion of young people had felt intimidated, worried or uncomfortable while on the internet, and this increases with each age group. Younger age groups were more likely to have told someone if they felt this way, and also more likely to know where to go for help, with most saying they would turn to friends/family/someone they trust.
Condoms are the contraceptive method which young people are most aware of how to access, with Intrauterine System (IUS) and Coil or Intrauterine Device (IUD) being the least known methods.
The pharmacy is where young people felt most comfortable accessing contraception, followed by shops/ supermarket. Young people felt least comfortable accessing contraception from a youth centre or School Nurse.
Most 17-25 year olds (64%) said they felt fairly or very confident in how to access emergency contraception, compared to 44% of those in Years 10-11.
Reports available below:
Please note district level reports have been produced only for those districts where response rates were higher, and any district level differences should be viewed as indicative only.
We have produced 'we asked, you said, we did' one page summaries for each age group, outlining how insights have been used:
Essex County Council is looking at how best to support residents with cost of living concerns. We launched a survey aimed at understanding what practical things we could do to help over the coming months, and to test out some ideas with residents.
The survey received a total of 883 responses.
Respondents suggested that more practical/immediate types of help and support were most important. This includes items to help stay warm this winter, home energy saving packs, and emergency food packages.
Of the types of support that respondents said they would use, the top responses were a home energy saving pack, items to help stay warm, and tried and tested top tips for making your money go further.
Suggestions for help and support from residents included help to make homes more energy efficient, reduced council tax/council tax breaks, and community initiatives (such as via libraries, cafes and churches to offer meals, food banks, activities, warm spaces, and welfare check schemes).
The full survey report can be downloaded here.
Essex County Council has now launched a £50m package of support, which is outlined in the Cost of Living Support for Households and Communities Plan. More information about the plan is available here.
The insights from this survey will continue to inform help and support for residents in Essex.