The Office of Rawreth Parish Council operates between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday. Any calls or emails sent outside of these hours will be replied to the next working day.

Outside of Office hours a list of useful contact numbers can be found on this website under the heading Parish Information, then useful links and phone numbers.

A list of Councillor contact details can be found on this website under the heading Parish Council, then Councillors

Meetings of Rawreth Parish Council take place at Battlesbridge Free Church, Hawk Hill, Battlesbridge SS11 7RE commencing at 7.30pm

Wednesday 2nd April 2025

 Wednesday 7th May 2025

Wednesday 4th June 2025

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Wednesday 1st October 2025

Wednesday 5th November 2025

Wednesday 3rd December 2025

 Wednesday 7th January 2026

Wednesday 4th February 2026

Wednesday 4th March 2026 

 

 

 

Proposed Development at Dollymans Farm

Bloorhomes have advised they are proposing a development of 1300 homes on Dollymans Farm in Rawreth, they have today 6th May released a Community Consultation

Rawreth Council received official notification of this proposed development at 18.00 hrs on Friday the 2nd of May, this development will be situated off the A129 London Road, between Carpenters Arms Roundabout and Shotgate, for perspective, it will be twice the size of the Wolsey Park Development which is situated between Rawreth Lane and London Road.

The online consultation can be found at 

 bloorhomes-dollymansfarm.co.uk

The consultation runs from the 6th of May until the 3rd of June, details of in person drop ins are as follows,

Rawreth Village Hall, Church Road Rawreth
SS11 8SH Friday 16th May 2.30pm until 7.30pm

Shotgate Community Hall SS11 8QZ Saturday 17th May 9.30am to 12.00pm

Please make sure you have your say, and in addition you can also contact any of your Parish Councillors via

clerk@rawrethparishcouncil.co.uk

Rawreth Parish Council will be invited to respond to any submitted planning application as consultees only, Rochford District Council will be the planning authority for any submitted planning application, your District Ward Councillors are Cllr James Newport, Cllr Chris Stanley and Cllr Jim Cripps, their contact details are
















Rawreth Parish Council Announcement

Following the cancellation of Rawreth Parish Council's Meetings on the 7th June, 5th July and 6th September 2023 the Parish Council can now officially confirm that the unsubstantiated, false and vexatious allegations made by a very small number of residents against the Parish Council and Clerk relating to financial irregularities have been proven to be as stated, unsubstantiated, false, and vexatious and rightfully the Parish Council strongly refuted all the allegations that were made. The Parish Council underwent an internal audit at the beginning of May, this was followed by an external audit by PKF Littlejohn who were appointed by the Audit Commission. PKF Littlejohn were made aware of all the allegations as were the Police and District Council. Under the Audit Regulations residents have the right to inspect the accounts during a given period of time, two residents requested to inspect the accounts and following their inspection raised 57 objections regarding the accounts and practices of the Parish Council, again for transparency PKF Littlejohn were made aware of and provided witu copies of the objections and the residents who raised them were given the opportunity to raise them as objections to the 2022-2023 Audit with PKF Littlejohn once they had received replies from the Parish Council, again for full transparency PKF Littlejohn were provided with a copy of the replies from the Parish Council to those 57 objections.

PKF Littlejohn advised the Parish Council on the 19th of September that all 57 objections that had been notified to them had been withdrawn by the two residents that raised them and that they had closed their Challenge Case, they also advised that upon carrying out their audit of the Parish Council 2022-2023 Audit they had concluded on the 15th of September that "on the basis of our review of Sections 1 and 2 of the Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR), in our opinion the information in
Sections 1 and 2 of the AGAR is in accordance with Proper Practices and no other matters have come to our attention giving cause for concern that relevant legislation and regulatory requirements have not been met" They further confirmed that " Other matters not affecting our opinion which we draw to the attention of the authority:
None" The 2022-2023 Audit of Rawreth Parish Council has therefore been concluded and the Notice of Completion has been issued and is displayed on the Parish Council Website and Parish Council Notice Board by Asda in Priory Chase.

The Parish Council can only apologise for the disruption that the cancellation of their meetings may have caused to other residents, but this was wholly necessary to allow the Parish Council to liaise and inform every relevant authority of the allegations that were made and to provide them with any information they needed. This whole matter has been treated very seriously by the Council due to the alarm , distress, illness and effect the malicious allegations have caused. The wellbeing of both Members of the Parish Council and staff must be protected and the Council will not tolerate any further threatening behaviour shown towards them or unfounded allegations and mistruths.

The Parish Council look forward to returning to normal working practices as soon as possible and welcoming residents back to meetings, they will not however tolerate confrontational, aggressive or threatening behaviour and will liaise with the Police if this happens