Alan Goggin Former Essex County Councillor - Established 1947

Alan Goggin Former Essex County Councillor - Established 1947 Alan was the ECC Conservative County Councillor for St. Osyth, Thorrington, Alresford, Great Bentley, and Brightlingsea. First elected 2014.

Alan stood down in 2026 after 12 years Previously Town Councillor at Brightlingsea [10rs] and Tendring [8 yrs] Conservative Party Councillor at Essex County Council. In addition to the basic County Councillor duties, I also have a variety of other pleasurable roles for my residents. These include being the Deputy for the Portfolio holder for Education & special skills, sitting on the local highwa

ys panel, the Kent & Essex Inshore Fisheries Conservation Authority, the ECC pension Strategy Board, and the ECC Pension Steering Ctte., the District Youth Partnership, as well as Chairing the Early Years Funding Panel.

Good to see surface and top dressing on some of our bigger local road’s especially the B1029 serving Thorrington, Gt.Ben...
09/07/2026

Good to see surface and top dressing on some of our bigger local road’s especially the B1029 serving Thorrington, Gt.Bentley & Brightlingsea.
Many are planned 12/18 months in advance to take advantage of the right weather conditions.
As always with fresh top-dressing and fresh white lines with “cats eyes”please drive slower than normal. It’s only a short time.
Yes there are always more roads and pavements to be included in programs, but the £2 million spent in our Brightlingsea Division over the last few years helps to understand the size of the various repair and maintenance budgets. We are definitely never ignored.

I saw part of the programme and was very proud for you and your team. It looked like a fantastic experience for the Lads...
09/06/2026

I saw part of the programme and was very proud for you and your team. It looked like a fantastic experience for the Lads! Well done to you all. I follow your story with passion.

Road works on Brightlingsea Road, B1029 for 15 to 17 April 2026.Reference ECC number EC3006497278501.UK Power Network.Th...
14/04/2026

Road works on Brightlingsea Road, B1029 for 15 to 17 April 2026.
Reference ECC number EC3006497278501.
UK Power Network.
There has been much social media speculation and some confusion about the above road works. I wanted to double check the facts as I had them.
Within the licence there are strict conditions. They have been there since the original Licence was granted many weeks ago.
These conditions are shown on the web site.
To be specific they are:-
Activities to take place between 09.30 AM & 14.30 PM.
All traffic management to be removed by 14.30,
Smart lights to be deployed on site.
Traffic not to stack back past property Quenby or Westerlings in the opposite direction.
There is to be no footway closure.
I am told that an ECC inspector will be on site early hours to make sure that the conditions are operative.
There will be inevitable delays whatever happens, so please allow some extra time for your journey.
Also please drive carefully. Be safe. The last thing anybody wants is an accident, or an injury to one of the workers.

While I was on the site, I double checked some works from Openreach for reference EC30096314896 on 21/22 April. I am told that these have the same conditions.

Hopefully there will be no "unknowns" or even unknown, unknowns, to force any last minute changes. At least the weather forecast looks okay!
Both Brightlingsea and Thorrington Councils are aware of these details. Hopefully the "stop/go" signs will not be needed.
I hope this clear, but if there any other questions please feel free to contact me direct on my email. [email protected]

13/03/2026

B1029. Church Road. The worsening pot hole on the hill has been upgraded to Emergancy following the motor accident. It appears to have been reported as a standard item on March 9. The reference number is 4029031.

The emergency upgrade has an expectation of 2/3 hours call out time, depending on where other vehicle’s are already working. This will create a traffic problem as residents return home.

Apologies for this. The team may operate some form of stop/go sign system. Even the easiest quick fix will take some time and will definitely cause disruption during rush hour.

The engineers attending will decide which immediate and longer term action is best suited. I have been promised an update. Sadly there is no repairing option that will not cause chaos. Please be careful and plan for extra term.
For all the Emergancy number is well publicised and is worth noting as 0345 603 7631.

This is a terrible time for potholes. Please be extra careful.

12/03/2026

A quick update on the Movaroms Farm issue regarding lorries.I have taken a phone call from a resident who mentioned sand on the road.

I doublechecked with the town council and they have had just one phone call notification from a town councillor.

The Town Clerk had already contacted SRC on their website.

I telephoned the company and spoke to their operations director (thank you, JB).

They appeared not to have had any contact. The operations director checked and this is a particularly busy week for them, and as a direct consequence, they operate two sweepers throughout most of the day.

The early morning sweeper is their own SRC vehicle. This operates between 8 o’clock and 1 o’clock.

In the afternoon they have a separate contractor from Millstar who operate between 1 o’clock and 5 o’clock.

I double checked them to make sure that the wheel wash was working.

He understood the residents concerns and immediately instigated a further sweep of Church Road, but this time going right the way up to the Thorrington roundabout.

I further checked on social media and there are several comments but none appear to have been contacted to SRC.

Then operations director promised that they would continue their vigilance. he apologised for any inconveniences.

If there are any more details please contact the Town Hall or myself and we can register complaints.
Please drive carefully.

A fantastic evening at the Pride of Tendring awards. Tendring has some fantastic volunteers doing great work in our comm...
26/02/2026

A fantastic evening at the Pride of Tendring awards. Tendring has some fantastic volunteers doing great work in our community
Long May it continue.

A quick reminder that I’m holding my regular bi-monthly residents clinic tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. Brightlingsea Lib...
16/02/2026

A quick reminder that I’m holding my regular bi-monthly residents clinic tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon. Brightlingsea Library in New Street. Normal 3.30 to 5.30. All welcome. This is probably the last but one date, before the elections in May. No appointments needed.

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