What's new on this site

What's new in February 2010

• Revamped Cemetery Service pages made live 1 Feb.
• Added Suffolk Park consultation

What's new in January 2010

• Added Chauntry Mills, Haverhill consultation
• Added consultation for Local Development Framework - draft Infrastructure Delivery Plan 
• Added consultation for Station Hill, Bury St Edmunds
• Added consultation for our  draft Economic Action Plan
• Added Homefield Business Park – auction of freehold interests (auction on 15 February)
• Added Keeping safe in bad weather page
• Added Local Development Framework - Core Strategy Examination

What's new in December 2009

• Added Food premises registration and approval page
• Added Environmental permitting page
• Started adding EU directive information to licensing pages
• Added Scaffolding and hoarding licences page
• Added new Tree and Woodland Strategy
  

What's new in November 2009

• Added Bury St Edmunds Christmas Fayre 2009 information
• Added Park and ride page
• Added Christmas shopping and events page

What's new in October 2009

• Added Community Engagement Strategy consultation
• Added field for website address in What's on events details
• Added links to Bury and Haverhill Business directory websites

What's new in September 2009

• East of England Plan to 2031 - details of the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) consultation 2 September - 24 November 2009.

What's new in August 2009

• Local Development Framework consultations - open from 12 August until  2009.

What's new in July 2009

• Play areas near you - added map of St Edmundsbury with links to each play area. This includes aerial photos, maps and details about each play area.
• Residents Parking Schemes page reorganised and split into separate pages for each zone and another page with frequently asked questions.
• Renamed the Who's who of corporate directors page to Chief Executive and directors to make it easier to find and added a link from the contacts page.
• Renamed and reorganised Mayoral invitations page to Civic events and Mayoral invitations
• Added Empty Homes and Wasted Space Strategy Consultation - open until 6 August.
• Added Consultation on the Houses in Multiple Occupation Strategy - open until 14 August.
• Tourism homepage redesigned.
• Set up links to the new Bury St Edmunds and Haverhill business directories: Find a local Business
• Added details of political parties to Your councillors page.
• Added Consultation on statement of licensing principles - open from 1 August until 23 October 2009.

What's new in June 2009

• Added map of the borough to the homepage (under the contact details on the left).
• Advertised Venues Director vacancy.
• Started adding West Suffolk Local Strategic Partnership (WSLSP) press releases to the homepage.
• Suffolk County Council and European Elections information added.

What's new in May 2009

• Office move from Borough Offices, Angel Hill to West Suffolk House, Western Way. Contact details changed across the website.

What's New in April 2009

• Fees and charges updated for financial year April-March 2009.
• Added information about office move to main contact pages.

What's new in March 2009

• Added details of Bury St Edmunds offices moving to West Suffolk House.
• Renamed Haverhill cinema page to Haverhill town centre development.
• Changed rotating homepage banners to one with details of the office move.

What's new in February 2009

• Reorganised Rural News pages to reflect publication of a single edition since issue 9, and altered Towns and villages pages to match this.

What's new in December 2008

• Your top questions - a new page with your most frequent queries, with details of contacts and information.
• New Play Partners section. 'Play partners’ is a partnership between trained play workers and children and young people to ensure they have a stake in what is on offer for them.

What's new in November 2008

• New structure chart added to Who's who - corporate directors page;
• changed the views from the Abbey Gardens webcam as the bowling season has finished;
• new Christmas shopping and events page added - bringing together information on late night shopping, Christmas lights switch ons, Christmas Fayre, markets, Park and ride and much more;
• Waste and recycling pages revamped.

What's new is September 2008

• Server and content management system upgrade - although this should not make anything appear differently on the website this should improve performance.

What's new in August 2008

• added new Equality Strategy to Equality and diversity page;
• changed the views from the Abbey Gardens webcam to show Crazy Golf and Bowling green.

What's new in July 2008

• added images to the news items on the homepage;
• re-organised and updated East Town Park pages.

What's new in June 2008

• Rural communities section added to Council services;
• Fair processing statement added to Data protection page in accordance with National Fraud Initiative requirements.
  

What's new in April 2008

• Council Tax bands and charges 2008/09 added, and fees and charges for other services for 2008/09 updated.

What's new in March 2008

• tidied links on Council Tax, Business Rates and benefits pages - put links on right of pages into a blue band and reformatted them to make them clearer.

What's new in February 2008

• added a link to Business rates from the homepage to make them easier to find;
• tidied links on Planning pages - put links on right of pages into a blue band and reformatted them to make them clearer.

What's new in January 2008

• added new pictures of West Suffolk House construction and updated content;
• added pictures of Haverhill cinema construction;
• changes to layout of homepage - the  'Key links' and 'Key services' sections were merged and a new section 'Have you seen?' added to highlight important areas of the website;
• Towns and villages section reorganised and more links to useful information added.

What's new in December 2007

• Blue sacks for extra recycling - online form.

What's new in November 2007

• Abbey Gardens webcam returns;
• Community Development - reorganised and more information added;
• Online Customer feedback form for comments, complaints and feedback on our services;
• Welcome to western Suffolk - a Guide to services in English, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.

What's new in October 2007

• Bury town centre redevelopment photo galleries added.

What's new in September 2007

• Online services page added - listing all e-forms and services that you can access online;
• Suffolk Rural Economy Scheme page added.

What's new in August 2007

• Bury St Edmunds tourist guides - in English, French, German and Italian added.

What's new in July 2007

• Planning Services - What's new this month? page added.

What's new in June 2007

• Business pages updated and reorganised;
• Residents Parking Permits - online forms are now being added.

What's new in May 2007

• Changed links from old A-Z list of services to new Dynamic A to Z

What's new in April 2007

• Council Tax Bands and charges 2007-2008 information added.

What's new in March 2007

• Planning Enforcement online complaints and enquiry form;
• Rural News, a newsletter published every two months and sent to rural parish clerks, councillors and magazine editors.

What's new in February 2007

• Haverhill cinema in the picture newsletter launched.

What's new in January 2007

• Be the Voice of your Community
• Haverhill Marketing Strategy (PDF 684Kb)
• Public Service Village

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