The Essex Resident Survey is Essex County Council’s biggest survey exercise and aims to generate insights on residents’ aspirations, views and values, helping to shape strategy, and to inform key delivery programmes and our engagement with residents. With almost 6,000 residents responding to the 2022 survey, it allows us to better understand the diversity of views and experiences within the...
In May 2022, Essex County Council published a Sector Development Strategy that seeks to support the growth of businesses within five growth sectors across the county. These growth sectors are: Advanced Manufacturing Construction Digitech Energy Medtech (Life Sciences) To support the realisation of this strategy, the Analytics and Data Science team have compiled the following evidence...
Research was conducted with Essex residents between March-June 2021, to: Understand residents’ current behaviours relating to climate action and their views towards climate change and the environment Understand what residents see as the primary barriers to engaging more with climate action behaviours Explore what might be needed to increase capability, opportunity and/or motivation for climate action to...
The Flood and Water Management Act states that Essex County Council has to put in place a local flood risk management strategy. This strategy sets out ECCs aims and actions to reduce the impact of local flooding to your community. ‘Local’ flooding in Essex means the risk of water from man-made drainage systems, small watercourses and rainfall off the land.