Mid-Durham AAP: Esh Village Drop-In Session, 21st June, 16.00-18.00

Would you like the chance to win £500 for Esh and help bring in £millions for Mid Durham?

The AAP, County Councillors and Parish Councils are working together to create 16 new Village Action Plans for 2017/20. 

The last village plans for 2013/16 helped bring in £2.6 million into the area, (you can find out more about the last Esh Action Plan here) so the AAP would love you to pop into their drop in session in the village on 21st June, 16.00-18.00, in the village hall, and tell them about our village and if you have any ideas on how together we can improve it.  

As an added incentive they are also giving those residents who belong to a local community group the chance to come along and put their groups name into a draw to win £500! 

Esh Village Area Action Plan and Council Budget Survey

As regular readers of the blog will know, the Mid-Durham Area Action Partnership has been working the residents of Esh village since 2013 on a wide range of community issues including traffic speeding and congestion, the local environment, and the provision of council services. You can see an updated report on progress made to-date by going to the Village Action Plan tab at the top of the page.

As part of our work with the County Council, Esh residents have been asked to feed into a county-wide consultation concerning how local government funding is best allocated and spent. Over the last five years, the County Council has had to make savings of more than £180 million; this figure needs to reach £250 million by 2020.

To hear more about these budgetary changes and to have your say in guiding the council in how to streamline their budget over the next three years, please join us at the next EVRA meeting, 6th October at 7.30pm in The Cross Keys. Andy Coulthard from the Mid-Durham AAP will be on hand to talk us through the process so far and to survey residents.

EVRA AGM: 12th February 2015

A quick reminder that the Esh Village Residents' Association will be holding its Annual General Meeting tomorrow night, 12th February 2015, at 7.30pm in The Cross Keys.

Everyone is welcome: items on the agenda include traffic and speeding (with input from our local police officers), the development of the new village playground, and planned events and new clubs for 2015. Our invited speakers are Father John Marsland and Peter Seed from Ushaw College, who will be introducing the new plans for Ushaw as it opens its doors to the public. To see the full agenda, please click on the image to the left. See you there!

Area Action Partnership: Esh Village Update

The Esh village Action Plan, an ongoing programme of improvements to village life jointly implemented by Durham County Council AAP, the Parish Council, Durham Constabulary and the Esh Residents' Association, has been updated to illustrate the great work and continuing progress being made on issues such as road safety, overgrown verges, and blocked drains. Click here to see the latest version of the Action Plan.