Essex Archaeology & History News: Contents #131-160 (3) H-P

Hadleigh, Visit to … 159.10

Hadstock St Botolph. Foundation Fabric and the North Door … 143.14

Hall, Kenneth (d.2008), Death of … 155.2

Harlow New Town 60th Anniversary … 151.1

Harlow Pottery Industries. A New Monograph from the Medieval Pottery Research Group … 159.4

Harlow, Historic Water Gardens On The Move … 138.5

Harwich Fort … 147.13

Hatfield Broad Oak, John Dane Upstairs and Downstairs in … 143.6

Hatfield Peverel, Conservation at St Andrew's Church … 159.12

Havering Palace Fishponds, In Search of the … 159.3

Havering-Atte-Bower's Missing Court Leet Book … 154.12

Hawkwood, Sir John (c1320-1394) … 140.12

Hedges, Straw and The Alps: A Literary Anniversary … 153.12

Hedingham Castle New Living History Display … 155.16

Heriot in Kind … 132.6

Heritage Information and Records Section … 131.14, 132.14

Heritage Link … 142.4

Heritage Lottery Fund … 156.13

Heritage Open Days … 131.16, 132.19

Herts & Essex Architectural Research Society … 149.15

Hewett, Cecil, and Historic Carpentry: His Legacy to Current Research into Timber-Framed Buildings … 132.8

High Laver, Otes Revisted … 137.5

Historians, An Early Bibliography of Essex … 150.6

Historic Buildings at Risk Register, Essex … 135.16

Historic Environment of Essex Conference … 153.2, 156.13

Historic Essex Buildings Update … 139.14

Historical Association Essex Branch … 150.16, 152.16, 156.16, 159.5

Historical Studies, MA in … 156.9

History In Danger … 134.3

Holbeach, Martin (1597-1670) … 135.14

Horndon on the Hill … 148.11

Hunter, John (1932-2005), Obituary … 146.2

Hylands House Chelmsford, Visit to … 150.11

Ice Age Network, National … 149.5

Icehouses … 148.6

Ilford Chapel & Valentines Museum, Visit to … 142.13

Industrial Archaeology of Essex and Eastern Counties, New Appointment to Raise the Profile of … 144.15

Ingatestone, Offended by the Seven Deadly Sins at … 146.8

Internet, ESAH on the … 135.16

Jones, Joyce May (1924-2010) Obituary … 160.16

Jones, Margaret. Death of … 134.2

King Alfred's Naval Battle in 885. Which River Stour? … 148.10

Lambourne Church, Stapleford Tawney Church and Rectory, Visit to … 158.6

Latton Priory, Wynters Cottage & Wynters Armorie, Visit to … 133.3

Latton, The 1616 Map of, Drawn by Jeremie Bailey … 145.4

Lawford Hall and Church, Visit to … 148.13

Lawford Hall, Model Farm at … 150.11

Lexden Heath Earthworks, Dr Stukeley and the … 149.3

Library Additions, Recent … 144.14

Library Notes … 142.5, 144.11

Library Report … 138.15, 146.8, 147.9

Library, Relocating of the … 132.3

Library, The Society's … 134.5, 135.16, 136.14

Library, The Society's. Great News … 133.8

Little Braxted, Visit to … 131.6

Little Wigborough, The Threat to St Nicholas' Church … 146.14

Littlebury, Henry Winstanley's House and Garden at … 146.11, 148.9

Local History in Britain after Hoskins … 157.7

Local History Recorder Scheme, Essex … 152.2

Local History Resource Packs for Schools … 138.10

Local History Week … 137.21

Local History Workshop, Essex … 134.12, 135.16, 136.14, 137.23, 140.10, 142.20

Local Recorders … 151.2

Lock It Or Lose It? … 153.11

London Archaeological Prize … 141.16

London On Guard, Call for Papers … 133.16

Machine Breakers, Essex … 147.11

Malaria in Essex … 139.2

Maldon Cemetery and the 85th Canon … 154.5

Maldon, 144 High Street, A Most Regrettable Disagreement … 160.5

Maltings on the Essex / Herts Border, Development of … 132.12

Mansfield, Valerie (d.2008), Death of … 155.2

Martin, Professor Geoffrey, Death of … 154.2

Mary Rose, The Sinking of the Mary Rose … 156.7

Matching Green, The Lay of … 134.3

Matching Green. Compare and Contrast … 133.14

Matching, Annual General Meeting 2009 at … 158.13

Mead, John (1931-2005). Death of … 148.6

Measurements, A Few Notes on … 147.7

Measurements, Ancient … 146.14

Measures, Obsolete Weights and … 149.13

Medieval Thatch, Surviving … 142.17

Mistley, Visit to … 149.8

Moat Clearances and its Hazards … 136.12

Monetary Crisis of the Late Seventeenth Century, The … 157.8

Morant Lecture … 139.6

Morant Lunch, 2006 … 149.2

Morant Portrait, The Society's Photographic Copy … 137.16

Morant's History of Essex, Sale of … 138.15

Mountnessing, Holbrooks and Windmill, Visit to … 159.8

Mountnessing. Thoby Priory … 154.8

Mountnessing. Thoby Priory, A Seriously Neglected Ruin … 149.2

Moyns Park, Visit to … 134.4

Mundon Church … 158.4

Mundon, St Marys Church … 149.14

Naval and Maritime History at University of Greenwich, Courses in … 158.14

Navestock Church & Navestock Hall Museum, Visit to … 140.11

Nightingale, Florence, The Creation of a Historical Myth … 158.15

North Weald Manorial Records … 149.14

Occasional Paper … 142.1

Old Leigh, Visit to … 153.13

Oliver's Ague in Old Bones. A Plea for Help … 144.8

Other Societies, Joint Meetings with … 157.3

Oxford University Continuing Education … 150.15

Oxford, Residential Courses at … 148.15

Paglesham, HMS Beagle at … 142.17

Pamphilon Violin Makers and Dendrochronology, The Essex … 156.7

Panfield Hall, Visit to … 150.9

Parish, Josiah (1834-1882), Some Notes on … 141.10

Pebmarsh, Stanley Hall. Visit to … 152.15

Petchey, Dr William John. Obituary … 136.3

Pevsner's Essex, Revising … 132.13, 133.13

Plague of Mice … 146.16

Plotlands, Essex … 152.14

Pottery Kiln Firing … 134.10

Powell, W Raymond (1920-2008), Obituary … 156.11

Prehistory, Giants and Antiquaries … 157.6

Prittlewell, East Saxon Christians and Pagans, The Finds in Context … 146.9

Programme Committee Help Needed … 133.16, 137.22

Programme Committee, Note from the … 131.4, 133.14

Programme Committee, Volunteers Needed for … 151.16, 152.16

Public Catalogue Foundation in Essex … 145.15

Publication & Research Fund … 141.9, 151.15, 158.15

Publications & Research Fund, The New … 142.14

Purfleet, Problems at … 136.5

Essex Archaeology & History News: Contents #131-160 (2) E-G

Earle Collection at the Society of Antiquaries of London … 156.6

Earls Colne Rectory, C17 Building Work at … 147.4

East of England Regional Research Framework … 153.2

East Tilbury, Bataville at … 150.10

Easton Lodge, Countess of Warwick's Tree House at … 159.5

Eastwood, St Laurence & All Saints Church … 146.8

Eastwood, St Laurence & All Saints Church on the Move? … 138.9

Editor, A Word from the … 136.16

Editor, From the … 132.20

Educating Essex … 131.4

Egyptology Group, Essex … 146.16

Email, Enquiries received by … 157.2

Emancipation of Slaves, Essex Connections with the … 153.16

Epping Forest District Museum … 131.12

Epping Jaundice of 1965 … 151.9

Erasmus or Elmo, Saint … 131.9

Erasmus, Saint, Another Essex Sightin of … 132.11

Eryngo, A Note on … 131.9

Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress Symposium … 137.12, 138.4

Essex Archaeology & History Third Series Index Vols 1-20 … 156.2

Essex Archaeology and History … 143.3

Essex Archaeology and History Third Series Index … 150.4

Essex Archaeology and History Vol 32 … 138.5, 139.14

Essex Archaeology and History Vols 31, 32, 33 … 136.13

Essex Archaeology and History, An Editor Urgently Wanted … 145.3

Essex Archaeology, 150 Years of … 140.7

Essex Archives Users Forum, News from the … 145.10

Essex Elsewhere … 134.7, 136.7, 140.12, 141.9, 154.7, 156.12, 157.4, 158.12, 160.5

Essex History Fair … 137.24, 148.2

Essex History Fair, Society Representative Needed for … 151.15, 153.13, 155.12

Essex Journal … 152.2, 153.15, 154.4

Essex Place Names Project … 131.10, 132.14, 133.11, 134.6, 140.3, 141.14, 142.12, 143.7, 147.1, 152.3, 153.3, 154.3, 155.3

Essex Place Names Project Booklets … 137.4

Essex Place Names Project Seminar … 131.11, 133.10, 134.6, 145.3, 146.6, 148.2, 149.5, 150.8, 151.3, 156.5

Essex Record Office … 142.4

European Route of Industrial Heritage, The Role of the … 147.14

Events, 2006 … 148.2

Evolution of the Essex Historiographer, The … 141.7

Excavations, Unpublished … 139.15

Farm Records, Essex, and the Canterbury Cathedral Fire of 1670 … 131.8

Farmers, Conservation Advice for Essex … 142.12

Field Names, Archaeological Significance of, An Early Observation … 144.14

Fishing on the River Stour … 149.4

Football, Early, or Camping in Essex: A Preliminary Survey … 142.2

Friends of Friendless Churches … 148.12

From the President … 131.1, 132.1, 133.1, 134.1, 135.1, 136.1, 137.1, 138.1, 139.1, 140.1, 141.1, 142.1, 143.1, 144.1, 145.1, 146.1, 147.1, 148.1, 149.1, 150.1, 151.1, 152.1, 153.1, 154.1, 155.1, 156.1, 157.1, 158.1, 159.1, 160.1

Gale, Sally. Greetings from the New Editor … 131.16

Galleywood Racecourse … 156.3

Gasworks Gazetteer, Essex … 133.7, 139.13

Gestingthorpe Hall, Visit to … 136.11

Gestingthorpe, Hill Farm. Visit to … 155.12

Gibson, Adrian. Obituary … 148.4

Gidea Park and the Garden Suburb Movement … 150.13

Gift Aid & Self Assessment Tax Returns … 142.20

Girling, Frank Aldous (1898-1966) … 155.3

Gough's Road Map … 149.6

Graffiti, Ships, Signatures and Symbols English Medieval … 146.15

Great Chesterford, The Lost Roman Town of … 155.10

Great Dunmow, Boyes Croft Maltings … 136.6

Great Maplestead, Dynes Hall & Church, Visit to … 144.9

Great Waltham, Badynghams, A Tale of Two Restorations … 157.5

Great Warley Church, Visit to … 144.7

Greater Thames Estuary Archaeological Steering Committee AGM … 137.21

Greater Thames Estuary, Archaeology and History of the … 149.16

Growing New Forests - Planting Versus Natural Regeneration … 146.9

Guildhall Library, Lords of All They Survey: Estate Maps at … 143.13

Essex Archaeology & History News: Contents #131-160 (1) A-D

Preparation of the research section of the new website continues with the compilation of a Contents list of back copies of the Society's Newsletter.

150 Years of Essex Archaeology Talk … 137.20, 138.4

1832 Reform Act Survey … 135.2

Abbess Roding, Rookwood Hall Barns at. An Unrecorded Malting? … 133.5

Advisory Committee for Archaeology in Essex … 138.16, 141.14, 143.10, 148.2, 151.3, 155.2, 158.2

Agriculture 1794, General View of Essex … 154.10

Aldersford Mill and Sible Hedingham Church, Visit to … 141.3

Almack, Richard (1799-1875), An Early Member of Essex Archaeological Society's Council … 149.6

Altham Family Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library … 143.13

American Research on Essex History … 133.9

Ancestry.com, Access to, through Essex Library Service … 150.15

Ancient Monuments Society Newsletter, Essex Matters from the … 151.14

Annual General Meeting at Maldon 2002 … 139.13

Annual General Meeting, 2004 … 144.3

Annual General Meeting, 2006 … 150.2

Annual General Meeting, 2007 … 152.14

Annual General Meeting, 2008 … 156.3

Aquitaine and Essex … 157.14

Archaeological Digs, Society Visits to … 148.1

Archaeological Training Excavation … 151.15

Archaeology in the Pipeline … 143.16

Archaeology of South Essex, Finest Propect, The … 142.5

Archaeology, Introductory Courses in … 160.13

Ashdon Records … 153.7

Atkins, Pat (1933-2003), Obituary … 142.10

Audley End, Proposed Changes at … 145.12

Avebury, The Sanctuary Revised. Archaeological Espionage … 132.7

Bartlett, Richard (1953-2003), Obituary … 142.9

Bascombe, Ken (1932-2004), Obituary … 142.9

Beale, Josiah Edward Michael MA (1928-2007). Obituary … 152.9

Beeleigh Abbey, Visit to … 142.7

Belchamp Hall and Belchamp Walter Church, Visit to … 132.11

Berden Hall and Church, Visit to … 138.14

Bibliographical, Essex … 133.6

Black Death, A Revised Diagnosis of? … 137.18

Black Notley, Stantons Farm and Faulkbourne Hall, Visit to … 146.6

Blackmore, Bombs Over … 148.16

Bobbingworth, A Parochial Dispute at … 151.10

Bonfire Night in Victorian Essex, The Celebration of … 144.11

Bonfire Night in Victorian Essex, The Celebration of. Paul Rusiecki's Article … 147.12

Book Awards, Essex … 134.8

Book Reviews … 131.13, 132.19, 133.11, 137.8, 138.11, 139.5, 140.14, 141.11, 142.6, 143.4, 145.7, 147.10, 149.12, 150.5, 152.3, 153.4, 155.4, 157.11, 159.13, 160.9

Books and Journals Missing from the Library … 134.13

Books for Disposal … 151.16

Books for Review … 148.9

Book's Previous Owners and their Annotations … 151.13

Bouchiers, The, and the Morant Dinner … 134.9

Brentwood, The Warrener's Lodge in 1589 … 158.4

Britannia, Essex in Richard Blome's … 145.5

British Association for Local History Awards 2002 … 138.16

Bronze Age Connections Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe Conference 2006 … 149.16

Bronze Age Technology. An Update … 134.6

Brown, Dr Arthur (1914-2003), Obituary … 142.8

Buildings at Risk in Essex … 153.14

Buildings: A Contemporary Account of Their Structure and Contents in C16 … 152.7

Bull, Richard, of Ongar A Veritable Virtuoso of Grangerising … 160.6

Camulodunum is in Somerset (not Essex!!) … 147.8

CBA Mid-Anglia Autumn Conference … 132.19

Centuriation … 131.7

Centuriation, Some Thoughts on … 133.10

Chelmsford and Jamestown Virginia, A Link Between … 143.12

Chelmsford Gasholder Foundation Failure, The … 141.6

Chelmsford Museum Redevelopment … 160.12

Chelmsford Photo 2000 A Millennium Project for the County Town … 135.7

Church Brasses, Essex … 147.5

Church Dedications in Essex, Medieval … 141.4

Churches, Round Tower … 150.2, 151.16

Churchyard Lecanactis, The Hidden Secrets of Old Walls … 141.13

Clark, Bill, Obituary to … 140.3

Coggeshall Project, The Discovering … 160.14

Coggeshall, Earthquake at … 152.11

Coggeshall, St Nicholas Chapel An Interesting Dilemma … 156.15

Colchester Antiquities. No Market for .. 153.15

Colchester Archaeological Trust … 139.6, 145.8

Colchester Lad's Patriotism, A … 143.11

Colchester Pageant of 1909 … 135.5

Colchester Pageant of 1909 and Colchester Royal Grammar School … 158.8

Colchester Shipping Registers Help Sought … 153.13

Colchester Town Walls, Overdue Repairs on … 149.7

Colchester, Better Than a Persian Carpet? … 158.3

Colchester, Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Fall … 157.15

Colchester, Humpty Dumpty Sat on the Wall at … 156.9

Complete Grazier, The … 160.3

Constable, John, Returns To Essex … 133.16

Constitution, Why Does the Society Need a New? … 137.3

Copford Church Revisited … 151.5

Copped Hall, Epping … 132.13

Cosmetic Grinders and Woad … 137.16

Cott, Peter (1928-2005). Obituary … 148.5

Council Minutes, Missing … 151.2, 155.8

County Archaeological Societies, The Origins of the … 133.4

Cowper, William, and the Rector of Stock … 137.14

Cox's History of Essex … 160.10

Cressing Craft Days … 131.15, 132.17, 133.15, 134.16, 135.15, 136.15, 137.23

Cressing Temple Archaeology Field School Open Day … 132.19

Cricket Bat Willows … 133.12

Crop Marks, Early Observations of … 149.4

Curwen, Harold, A Correction … 160.2

Curwen, Harold, The Careful Printer (1885-1949) … 159.6

Cutts, Rev. Edward Lewes (1824-1901) … 154.9

Data Protection Act … 131.7

Davey, Walter Charles (1925-2010) Obituary … 160.15

Dead, Bring Out Your … 131.11

Dedham Muniments Room, Rev. Canon G H Rendall and the … 155.6

Dedham, A School for Young Ladies at … 160.3

Dedham, Another Lost Essex Chapel … 157.11

Dedham, Visit to … 155.5

Derham, Dr William, Rector of Upminster … 137.9

Desaguliers, De John Theophilus, Rector of Little Warley … 136.4

Lost Landscapes: Reconstructing Medieval Essex. Conference at Essex Record Office. Saturday 18 March 2017

Lost Landscapes: 

Reconstructing Medieval Essex 

Medieval Essex was a land of rich variety, including estuaries and marshland, coastline and rivers, royal forests and ancient countryside. The landscape around us can seem like a fixed and permanent thing but it is, in fact, ever-changing, shaped by both natural and human forces. This event will bring together expert speakers to explore how the landscape of medieval Essex shaped the lives of the people who lived there, and how they in turn shaped the environment around them. For further details please see www.essexrecordoffice.co.uk/events 

Saturday 18 March 2017, 10.30am-3.30pm 

Essex Record Office, Wharf Road, Chelmsford, CM2 6YT 

Tickets: £20 including refreshments and lunch, please book in advance on 033301 32500

In partnership with the Essex Place Names Project and the Essex Society for Archaeology and History 

ESSEX RECORD OFFICE 

Essex County Council 

Essex Society for Archaeology and History: Programme for 2017

Programme of Visits 2017

Wednesday 22 February 2017 6.00pm

Illustrated talk about the Cold War Vulcan Bomber, by the Vulcan Restoration Trust. Venue: Chelmsford Museum. Cost free to members on production of programme card, non-members £2.00.

Saturday 11 March 2.00pm

Morant Lecture: Illustrated Talk by Ben Cowell on Some Essex Country Houses and their Owners, Venue: Church House Newport Including refreshments. Cost £5.00 members, £6.00 non-members

Saturday 18 March 10.30am-3.30pm

Landscape & Place Names Conference at the Essex Record Office. (All welcome)

Monday 24 April 2pm

Tour of Hylands House Chelmsford, including refreshments. Cost £5.00

Thursday 27 April 8pm

High Country History Group. Speaker: Andrew Smith, ESAH. ‘Essex Churches: Then & Now’. Toot Hill Village Hall Stanford Rivers CM5 9LR. Visitors £3 including refreshments (All welcome)

Thursday 18 May 10.30am

Tour of Coalhouse Fort and visit to St Catherines Church, East Tilbury, including refreshments at St Catherines Church. Cost £6.00

Saturday 17 June 2pm

AGM at Silver End Village Hall, Silver End near Witham. Possible tour of the estate afterwards. Donations for refreshments.

Wednesday 12 July 12 noon

Afternoon cruise on a Thames Barge from Maldon. Cost £20.00pp afternoon tea available (min of 12, £11.50) min 40, max 50.

Wednesday 23 August 10.30am

Tour of Bulmer's Brickyards in Bulmer, near Sudbury, Suffolk (but still in Essex!!) including refreshments. Cost £5.00

Saturday 16 September 10.30pm

 Tour of Alderford Mill, Sible Hedingham, including refreshments Cost £ 5.00 Max 20

Saturday 7 October 10am -4pm

Essex Industrial Archaeology Group Industrial Heritage Fair at Wat Tyler Country Park (All welcome)

Sunday 15 October 12.30pm for 1pm

Morant Lunch: at the Purleigh Bell in Purleigh Max 28-30 Cost £28   Speaker: Tony Tuckwell on ‘How Essex became a Diocese with Chelmsford as its Cathedral’ Bookings by 15 September please.

Saturday 4 November 10am-4.30pm

History & Archaeology Symposiums: Venue Christ Church United Reformed Church, New London Road, Chelmsford.

Saturday 11 November 2 pm

 EIAG Annual Meeting at Chelmsford Museum followed by a lecture by Tony Kirby on Railways and Industry. Cost free to members on production of programme card, non-members £2.00.

Further details of all events and availability are available from the Excursions Secretary, Mr. Graham Gould, 16 Osborne Road, Leyton, E10 5QW.  All events to be booked via the Excursion Secretary at least 10 days prior to the event. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope for each event, for maps and other instructions if you do not want these by email.  Cheques should be made payable to the Essex Society for Archaeology and History. If there are any transport issues in attending these events, please contact the Programme Secretary.

The visits on the Society's programme are open to members and associate members only unless otherwise stated.  The Society can accept no liability for loss or injury sustained by members attending any of its programmed events.  Members are asked to take care when visiting old buildings or sites and to alert others to any obvious risks.  Please respect the privacy of those who invite us into their homes.

Southend on Sea Borough Council Response Regarding Historic Environment

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council 

Department for Place Director of Planning and Transport — Peter Geraghty 

Our ref: DoPT/003 

11th January 2017 

Mr Adrian Corder-Birch 

The Essex Society for Archaeology & History

Dear Mr Corder-Birch 

Southend Historic Environment Record and Protection of Southend's Heritage 

Thank you for your letter dated 7th November 2016. 

The Council is aware of the Boroughs finite heritage resource both above and below ground and the requirement in the NPPF to maintain an up to date and publicly accessible Historic Environment Record (HER). The Southend HER is currently held at the museum with direct access also available to the Planning Officers through the database itself and through the GIS system. At present, over 500 sites are recorded in the HER. Where a site is close to an existing HER record or where it is considered to be located in an archaeologically sensitive location the Planning Department liaise with the Museum service regarding the appropriate response in terms of planning conditions. This has happened for a number of sites recently and is on-going. 

The HER is not yet online but it is publicly available at the Museum and many searches are undertaken each year. Requests are processed by the Council's Archaeology Curator at Southend Museum. Contact details for search requests can be found on the Heritage Gateway Website, below and on the Council's website.

Southend also benefits from an up-to-date historic environment policy as set out in the recently adopted Development Management Document, Policy DM5 'Southend-on-Sea's Historic Environment'. This policy seeks to protect all heritage designations including known and potential areas of archaeological interest. All applications where there are issues relating to historic or archaeological interest are considered against the Policy and the advice in the NPPF. 

Yours sincerely

PETER GERAGHTY 

DIRECTOR OF PLANNING & TRANSPORT 

Civic Centre : Victoria Avenue : Southend-on-Sea : Essex SS2 6ER 

Customer Service Centre . 01702 215000 www.southend.gov.uk 

Essex County Council Response Regarding Historic Environment

Essex County Council 

Cabinet Office 

PO Box 11 

County Hall 

Chelmsford Essex CM1 1LX 

Mr Adrian Corder-Birch D.L. 

President, Essex Society for Archaeology and History 

21 December 2016

Dear Mr Corder-Birch, 

Thank you for your letter dated 15th November and for the copy of The Archaeology of Essex: proceedings of the Chelmsford Conference, which I enjoyed reading. You may be aware that earlier this year our Place Services team ran a one-day conference at Audley End on 'Capability Brown in Essex', in celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown that one of your members Michael Leach contributed a talk to, and which was well received. We hope that there will be future such opportunities for ECC and the Essex Society for Archaeology and History to co-operate on the understanding and promotion of the county's historic environment. 

In relation to your query about Essex County Council's financial support of Place Services, for the Historic Environment Record, and their specialist advice, I can confirm that as a traded service, a number of teams within the County Council 'buy' the specialist services provided by Place Services via Service Level Agreements, and on a project by project basis. These include, but are not limited to, our Minerals and Waster Planners, Essex Highways, Floods and SuDS, and Essex Properties and Facilities. Some of the income generated by this activity is then used to support the maintenance of the Historic Environment Record. 

We are encouraged that you see the benefits of a more integrated approach to the management of the natural and historic environment that have come from the creation of Place Services, and can confirm that we are already seeing positive results from this. For example, the team has instigated a system of 'single responses' to internal planning consultations, such that conflicting issues between our different specialist advisors are resolved wherever possible prior to a response being sent back to ECC planners. This helps to save both time and money, and supports our planners in ensuring that development in the County is truly sustainable. 

With regards to your query about the NPPF (paragraph 126) requirement for local planning authorities to have in place a 'strategy for the positive conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment', I can confirm that the Place Services team feeds into strategic planning policy, including in the development of Local Plans, for both Essex County Council (e.g. the Essex Minerals Plan) and our local planning authority partners in Essex to help ensure positive planning for the historic environment of the county. 

I hope the above information helps to answer your queries and I would very happy to discuss these issues with you should you so wish. 

Yours Sincerely, 

Cllr Simon Walsh Cabinet Member for Environment and Waste Essex County Council 

cc. Cllr. John Spence, Cabinet Member for Finance Housing and Planning air David Finch, Leader, Essex County Council 

Essex Record Office: Correspondence Regarding Future Funding

Council is the lead Committee of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History.  On the agenda this Saturday is a proposal for self-financing of the Essex Record Office by the County Council.  Read the correspondence to date by following this link: http://esah160.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Essex%20Record%20Office 

Essex Journal. Autumn 2016. (Vol. 51. No. 2)

Following the absorption of the Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress into the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, the latter became owner of the title of the Essex Journal, and the Essex Review. So it is with pleasure that we announce, if belatedly, the content of the latest edition.

Editorial ... 47

Essex Archaeological and Historical Congress ... 48

News from the Essex Record Office ... 49

Hervey Benham Charitable Trust: the living legacy ... 50

The Origins and Early History of Southend: Ken Crowe ... 51

Thomas Hooker at Chelmsford, Essex, 1625-1631: Robert Charles Anderson ... 62

'The great progress of the place in modern times': the Chelmsford Planning Survey and the High Chelmer Development, 1945-73: James Bettley ... 72

Obituary, William Landels Wild (1936-2016) ... 85

Book Reviews ... 86

EJ 20 Questions? Robert Charles Anderson ... 90

Newsletter (Winter 2016)

Many members of the Essex Society for Archaeology and History will have today, Christmas Eve, received more holiday reading: Newsletter #180 (Winter 2016).  It has been quite a year for the Society with the absorption of the Essex Congress and a new website in preparation to be launched early in 2017. Items in this edition include:

- From the President

- Anniversaries

- The Morant Dinner and the Morant Lecture: about Revd. Philip Morant

- Reprint of the Letter to Members of Congress

- The Planning System

- DIY in the Seventeenth Century

- Looking to the future of a self-financing Essex Record Office

- Harlow Roman Temple Digitisation Project

- Nathaniel Salmon (1675-1742)

- Archaeology in the Dark

- Galant Glenway

- Expenses of Heybridge Captain in 1622

- The Fambridge Ferry over the Crouch

- An Excavated Basket Weaver in Bradwell-on-Sea

- Zeppelins' Centenary Commemoration

- St Osyth Planning Application Update

- What was John Booth's Source?

- The Society Archives: An Online Presence

- New Books of Essex Interest

- Readers Letters

- Book Reviews

- Christmas Publisher Offers

Historic Environment: Response from Castle Point Borough Council

Regeneration & Neighbourhoods 

Castle Point Borough Council Council Offices, 

Kiln Road, Thundersley, Benfleet, Essex SS7 1TF  

Adrian Corder-Birch, D.L. 

President 

The Essex Society for Archaeology & History  

Date: 16th December 2016 

Dear Mr Corder-Birch, 

HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT 

Thank you for your further letter of 11th November 2016 regarding the planning process and historic environment in Castle Point. I am pleased to learn that you acknowledge that there are effective procedures in place to consider historic environment issues. 

May I also reassure you that planning records relating to the historic environment are published and readily available and that planning officers are also able to call on specialist advice in appropriate cases, as and when necessary. 

Thank you for your continued interest in the historic environment of the Borough. 

Yours sincerely,  

Steve Rogers 

Head of Regeneration & Neighbourhoods 

Essex Record Office Self financing? A Response from the Leader of Essex County Council

Essex County Council 

Leader's Office 

PO Box 11, 

County Hall 

Chelmsford Essex CM1 1LX 

Mr A. Corder Birch 

President, Essex Society for Archaeology and History 

1 December 2016

Dear Adrian 

RE: ESSEX RECORD OFFICE 

Thank you for your letter regarding the financial challenges facing Essex Record Office (ERO). Let me say at the outset how much I value the interest of the ESAH on this issue and indeed the contribution you make across the County. 

At Essex County Council we remain determined to provide the best value for money to our tax payers. This means the provision of outstanding services within ever tighter cost constraints. I am sure you appreciate that the public sector is having to operate in an increasingly challenging financial climate and is having to make difficult choices as to how limited funding is used. Non tax revenue is increasingly important in balancing the equation and it does seem right that customers should pay for services where they can afford to do so. 

Accordingly, we are looking at many aspects of our operations to assess what revenue may reasonably be earned. ERO provide a wide range of services which are valued by those who consume them. It is entirely reasonable that we should set the goal of attracting revenues which fully cover the marginal cost of those services. But let us be clear — this will only be sustainable if we are providing services which are attractive to as many people as possible and which meet their needs. Achievement of a break even position purely through diminution of service will be at odds to our value for money criteria. 

You ask a series of detailed questions about income and costs. Our officers are currently developing the business plans which will enable the achievement of our aims over the coming years. The current trading deficit, even ignoring the cost of the building is approaching £0.5m. Please be assured that we will not ask our staff to perform the impossible; the eventual business plan will need to be realistic and they will be supported in their efforts. 

I wish you well for your council meeting in January. While we would not wish to publish detailed business plans, once they are developed (which will be towards the end of this financial year) I know that the Portfolio Holder for Heritage Culture & Arts, Cllr John Spence and/or our senior officers will be happy to meet with you and talk matters through. 

Kind regards. 

Yours sincerely 

Councillor David Finch 

Leader of the Council