Following the departure of Martin Payne last year, two new estates officers have joined the Beaulieu Estate Management Team. You may have already met Philippa Nichols and Graham Kemp.

Pip will be organising and running a programme of events throughout the year to ensure residents have plenty of opportunities to make new friends, enjoy the beautiful outdoor spaces at Beaulieu and get involved in projects such as the implementation and maintenance of the community gardens.

Graham’s focus is on managing the beautiful parks and open spaces at Beaulieu.

Three resident surgeries are planned for the remainder of January and February 2023.

• Monday 23rd Jan 1:30 till 3:30
• Wednesday 8th Feb 2 till 4
• Friday 24th Feb 10 till 12

All sessions will take place at the Community Gardens Cabin off Taylor View. What3words ///rider.brass.posts.

Currently the idea is these will remain as drop in sessions however depending on how busy these sessions get, we will implement booking time slots to prevent having to wait for too long in future.

A reminder that these sessions are specifically for the residents of Beaulieu who are managed by Beaulieu Estate Management and areas under their management relating to Public open space.

As always, you can email us with any questions at Beaulieu@thelandtrust.org.uk at any time.

Beaulieu Estates Management are inviting residents to take part in RSPBs Big Garden Bird Watch- 28th-30th January

This is a citizen science project encouraging residents to count what birds they get in their garden or they see in the local park.

Join us on Saturday 28th to create a bird feeder and take home a spotter sheet.

For more information please email Beaulieu@thelandtrust.org.uk

Our offices are now closed for the festive period until Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

If you need to contact the Land Trust in an emergency, please call 0300 3230 170.

Alternatively, you can email with less urgent enquires to the usual address and we will get back to you early in the New Year: Beaulieu@thelandtrust.org.uk.

Seasons Greetings and a happy healthy 2023 from everyone at Beaulieu Estate Management.

The Chelmsford Mildmay Rotary for the second year are helping Santa to visit families across Beaulieu and north Chelmsford.  They will be fundraising for local charities, including The Children’s Society East (Hidden Harm) and the Wilderness Foundation (UK) and bringing seasonal greetings and cheer to everyone.

On Wednesday 21st they will be visiting Centenary Way, Wilfred Waterman Way, Robert Finch Crescent and Minns Avenue. 

On Thursday 22nd they will be visiting Centenary Way, Linge Avenue and Regiment gate.

Look out for Santa between 5:30pm and 8:00pm.

For more information visit: https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/page.php?PgID=856970&ClubID=1399

Or track Santa at www.SleighTracker.co.uk

Event Date: Sunday 4th December 10am-3pm

Once again, the Beaulieu Community Centre is playing host to The Big Beaulieu Christmas on Sunday 4th December.  

Santa will be in his grotto, supported by the Chelmsford Mildmay Rotary Club, and will be handing out presents with the Children of Beaulieu.  This is again available via booked time slots and is free to residents of Beaulieu Estate Management.  Many of you have emailed in and we just want to remind people to check their junk emails and to chase if you have not received a reply back from us. We do still have a limited number of spaces left so if you want to book a slot and havent got round to it yet, please email us at beaulieuevents@thelandtrust.org.uk.

The Mini Market Beaulieu will also be there, bigger than ever with plenty of festive stalls and a great opportunity to get some Christmas presents for all the family!

We are also delighted that L&Q have sponsored some Nature weaving which will be freely available for all to attend in the Channels room upstairs.

We would also like to thank Beaulieu Community Trust for helping to support the event by providing reduced room hire, which allows us all to put on these fantastic events on for the community.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Sunday!

On Saturday 17th September, we were pleased to invite over 200 residents to join us in the Community Gardens for free activities, refreshments and a chance to have their say on what the gardens could look like.  In partnership with Trustlinks, a local charity who run a number of community gardens in South Essex, they were collecting ideas that residents would like to see in the garden and getting them to vote on their favourite idea using some so photos.  Each resident was given a number of votes to stick on their favourite idea and there were two runaway winners in the form of some inventive looking seating and a raised pond.  Residents were also able to register their email address to be kept up to date on the project or interested in volunteering once the garden has been designed and installed.

We were also joined by Now Strike Archery who provided axe throwing, which was hugely popular seeing many friendly competitions amongst family members (and work colleagues).  Circus Allstars also put on a variety of tricks and circus equipment for residents to have ago including a slack line, diablos and hula-hoops.  Again, another busy activity that saw all the family getting involved and learning new tricks.

Heart and Sole were also in attendance promoting their health walk which takes place at Beaulieu every Friday at 10:30 from Beaulieu square.

Lastly, residents were treated to some free refreshments from Coffee Squared with cake from this local coffee shop always going down a treat. 

We are so pleased with the positive responses received from the local community and are looking forward to running similar events in the future to bring all residents of Beaulieu closer together.

This weekend Countryside will be looking to move the bridge over the A12 and we have asked if there is any information if residents wish to view the move.

Below is some information if you wish to view the bridge being moved:

“We are planning to commence this weekend, the first move of the RDR3 Bridge over the Great Eastern railway line and the A12 Northbound slip road, onto the temporary trestles.

The bridge will be moved into place by remote controlled Self Propelled Modular Transporters (SMPT’s), which in itself is some engineering feat!!!

This bridge install has created a lot of interest from various parties and therefore we have setup a managed viewing platform for people to attend and observe the site operations.

If you were planning or would like to attend this event, your more than welcome to have access to our viewing platform. However before you do this, we would require you to sign in at the Countryside Strategic Compound and be escorted to the area.

Below is a link to the locations of the viewing platform and the Countryside Strategic Compound;

Strategic Compound; https://w3w.co/relate.shield.brief

Viewing Platform; https://w3w.co/gentle.reds.cross

Key times of the moves are listed below;

Saturday 24th;

• 08:00-12:00 – SPMT movement to take weight of bridge spanning the railway line and A12 carriageway.
• 14:00-16:00 – Move of bridge to site boundary at railway line.
• 16:00-18:00 – Further move of bridge along site boundary and second SPMT movement to take weight of bridge spanning the railway line and A12 carriageway.

Sunday 25th;

• 08:00-11:00 – Move of bridge to align with temporary trestles.
• 12:00-15:00 – Weight transfer of bridge onto temporary trestles.

Please note that the above timings are subject to change.”

The next resident’s surgery will be held on Tuesday 6th September at the Community Gardens cabin between 10am-1pm.

Currently the idea is these will remain as drop in sessions however depending on how busy these sessions get, we will implement booking time slots to prevent having to wait for too long in future.

A reminder that these sessions are specifically for the residents of Beaulieu who are managed by Beaulieu Estate Management and areas under their management  relating to Public open space.

As always, you can email us with any questions at Beaulieu@thelandtrust.org.uk at any time.

Hopefully see some of you on the 6th!