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Planning
Green fields, grey areas: Brightlingsea’s fight over 75 homes
A Brightlingsea resident has pledged to take the fight over three greenfield housing sites to the government's Planning Inspector after Tendring District Council's planning committee voted unanimously to push its Local Plan forward without removing the allocations.
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Business
Starlink in Brightlingsea: fast broadband, but a question of politics
A simple question on a local Facebook group has revealed just how much a small coastal town like Brightlingsea is wrestling with the same big questions as governments and defence departments: how fast is the internet, who controls it, and what are we willing to pay — in cash and principle — to get online.
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Council
Security, surveys and silence: Operation Vanguard divides Brightlingsea
A Facebook post by Brightlingsea's county councillor Aimée Keteca has drawn hundreds of comments, exposing a fault line that runs well beyond the town — through Essex and into the heart of the national immigration debate.