Lowestoft Town Council
Are you passionate about the environment and climate change?
Are you committed to our Climate Emergency Declaration?
Lowestoft Town Council are seeking for up to two members of the public to join our Climate Emergency and Ecological Committee.
The Climate Emergency and Ecological Committee was set up as part of Lowestoft Town Council's response to declaring a Climate Emergency. The committee is responsible for determining achievable changes to the Council's activities, in line with the Climate Declaration, as far as practical and proportionate.
You can find out more about the committee's responsibilities by viewing their Terms of Reference.
If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please submit your written expression of interest, including reasons why you would be interested in being a part of this committee, to admin@lowestofttowncouncil.gov.uk. The deadline for expressions of interest is Friday 17th June 2022, 12noon.
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Thursday 26th May 2022, 7pm
Whitton Residents' Hall, Hawthorn Avenue, Lowestoft, NR33 9BB
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Every year the Town Council will arrange a meeting at which local residents can get together and discuss matters affecting them and the community. As well as this invite to local people, invites are being sent to community organisations, the police, and town, district and county councillors. This is an opportunity to find out more about what is going on locally and ask questions in this friendly and inclusive forum. Please do come along.
Please note that capacity and parking at Whitton Residents' Hall is limited.
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Notice is hereby given that due to the resignation of Councillor Tracey Eastwood, a vacancy has arisen in the Office of Councillor for the Town Council.
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Wednesday 18th May 2022 is International Museum Day – a day to celebrate the power of museums.
Throughout the day on our social media channels we’ll be highlighting the amazing work and exhibits on display in some of the museums around Lowestoft.
You can find out information on some of the museums in and around Lowestoft on our website.
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At the Annual Meeting held on 17th May 2022, Councillor Alan Green was unanimously re-elected as the Mayor of Lowestoft Town Council for the Municipal Year 2022/2023. Councillor Nasima Begum was appointed as deputy mayor.
The elected chairs for the following committees are: Assets, Inclusion and Development Committee, Councillor Robert Breakspear; Climate Emergency and Ecological Committee, Councillor Paul Page; Community Safety Committee, Councillor Peter Lang; Finance and Governance Committee, Councillor Andy Pearce; Personnel Committee, Councillor Sonia Barker; and Planning Committee, Councillor Peter Knight.
The Full Council will next meet on Tuesday 24th May at 6:30pm at Whitton Residents’ Hall, Hawthorn Avenue.
Cllr Green, Mayor of Lowestoft (right) and Cllr Nasima Begum, Deputy Mayor (left) at the Remembrance Day event in November 2021
Lowestoft Town Council are pleased to announce our programme of free events to celebrate HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee has now been published.
The events will take place on Thursday 2nd June at Sparrow's Nest with a wide range of children's activities and live music performances, culminating in the lighting of Britain's Most-Easterly Beacon!
The full programme can be found on our events page.
As part of a range of exciting digital projects taking place across East Suffolk, free-to-use public wi-fi has now been launched in Lowestoft.
To support local towns and businesses, East Suffolk Council is delivering a range of digital projects which aim to strengthen the local economy and improve connectivity within the district's market towns.
One of these projects is the East Suffolk Digital Towns programme which will digitally transform market towns through the installation of free public Wi-Fi, digital footfall counters and town marketing platforms alongside a business support programme.
Supported by funding from the Getting Building Fund and New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership’s Innovative Projects fund, this new technology will be combined with bespoke business support, helping local businesses and the towns in which they are based, to grow.
Initially piloted in Framlingham in 2019, the free public Wi-Fi has now been launched in the main shopping areas of Lowestoft, as well as the seafront areas with an ambition for other market towns to follow later this year.
Cllr Stephen Burroughes, East Suffolk's Cabinet Member for Customer Services, Operational Partnerships and Digital Transformation, said: “The Wi-Fi zone will extend from the seafront to the town centre, including Kirkley High Street and the Triangle and make it easy for visitors and local people to get online when out and about. It is a digital scheme which we are really proud of.”
Cllr Craig Rivett, East Suffolk’s Cabinet Member for Economic Development, said: “We are committed to supporting local businesses and the provision of free-to-use Wi-Fi in public areas is just one of the innovative ways we are doing this. As well as helping people to stay connected whilst visiting our town centres, this scheme will enable town councils and business groups to improve services and offerings to attract more visitors.”
Cllr Alan Green, Mayor of Lowestoft, said: “Lowestoft Town Council is delighted to be part of this new scheme which aims to help residents, visitors and businesses connect with each other. This new technology will help us understand how people use the town so we can improve services as well as signposting residents and visitors to the many exciting events that Lowestoft has to offer.”
Danny Steel, Chairman of Lowestoft Vision, said: The Digital Towns programme is a great boost to Lowestoft business. Not only will shoppers and visitors to Lowestoft enjoy free connectivity, but we will also have the helpful information and marketing that can be used to support our high street. This is a great example of the local authority and business working together for the greater good.”
New technology will enable the council to understand the number of visitors to the town, the busiest periods, the average time people spend in the town centre and much more. This will enable the council's Economic Development Team to provide tailored support for local businesses and provide data-based evidence to support other ongoing projects.
East Suffolk is working in partnership with an interactive walking app provider, Go Jauntly to develop outdoor adventures across all of East Suffolk’s principle 12 towns and villages. Three trails will be launching in Lowestoft at the same of the free-to-use Wi-Fi via the app.
East Suffolk Free Wi-Fi will soon be launched in Felixstowe and is provisionally scheduled to be available in Woodbridge, Southwold, Beccles, Bungay, Halesworth, Aldeburgh, Leiston and Saxmundham by October 2022.
Further information is available at: https://www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/business/digital-towns/
For more information please contact: economicdevelopment@eastsuffolk.gov.uk
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Lowestoft Town Council are pleased to announce that a new defibrillator has been installed at Gunton Drive Phone Kiosk. The siting of this defibrillator outside of the kiosk will enable the community to relaunch the Lending Library inside the phone box.
This defibrillator is one of many around Lowestoft. In the event of an emergency, please call 999 who will be able to advise where your closest defibrillator is and how to access it.
Using a Defibrillator
People are advised that the defibrillators are only to be used in an emergency and under instruction from 999/112. Advice from St John’s Ambulance is:
1. After performing a primary survey, and you find someone is unresponsive and not breathing normally, ask a helper to call 999 or 112 for emergency help while you start CPR. Ask a helper to find and bring a defibrillator, if available.
2. When the helper returns with a defibrillator, ask for it to be switched on and to take the pads out, while you continue CPR. They should remove or cut through clothing to get to the casualty's bare chest. They also need to wipe away any sweat. The defibrillator will give you voice prompts on what to do.
3. They should attach the pads to the casualty’s chest, by removing the backing paper. Apply the pads in the positions shown.
4. The defibrillator will analyse the heart’s rhythm. Stop CPR and make sure no one is touching the casualty. It will then give a series of visual and verbal prompts that should be followed.
5. If the casualty shows signs of becoming responsive, such as coughing, opening eyes or speaking, and starts to breathe normally, put them in the recovery position. Leave the defibrillator attached. Monitor their level of response and prepare to give CPR again if necessary.
