Hello everyone!
Just a line to say we hope you enjoyed your holiday if you’ve had one, or that you will enjoy a holiday, if you have not done so already.
The SAEN committee is preparing for the AGM, which will take place on Thursday, 1st October, at the Eastwood Community Centre at 8.15pm.
This year’s committee was not elected, but volunteered to run the group, and I will be the first to say that they seem to have done an excellent job. The AGM is your opportunity to come and meet the small bunch of people who have been working on behalf of so many. But this is also your opportunity to think about standing yourself. We would welcome nominations from any committed person, and would welcome new ideas on the night. I promise we’ll make it as interesting and lively
as we can.
We need to think about raising more funds this year, as it is becoming increasingly obvious that we will need some kind of legal help sometime soon, as we start on Phase Three of the battle.
In the meantime, a couple of things you might like to do:-
- Our website ( http://saen.org.uk/ ) is being updated this month; please visit and tell us what you think.
- Write to your councillors – all three of them – to ask why an analysis of the responses to Stage Two of the consultation has not been published. The individual e-mailed responses are on the Rochford web site, but there must have been letters also, which do not seem to be included, and there must have been hand-written repsonses. We need assurance that these are also included in the final analysis. If you don’t know who your councillors are, put your postcode into http://www.writetothem.com/ and it will tell you.
- Some of you complain to the airport about the noise of aircraft at night. Have you thought of complaining to your councillor about this also. One councillor has said that he has received NO complaints at all, so everything must be all right!
- The airport number to complain to is 01702 608169
Regards
Kiti Theobald – chairman