Buses/Council/Councillors/Doctors/Electricity/Fishing/Libraries/Member of Parliament/Neighbourhood Watch/Police/Rail/Recycling & Rubbish

Buses

Regular Monday-Saturday Service (operated by Simonds)
Bury St Edmunds - Badwell Ash - Diss/Garboldisham Get timetable
Market Day Services (operated by Mulleys Motorways)
Stanton - Badwell Ash - Long Thurlow - Ipswich (Tuesdays only) Get timetable
Stanton - Badwell Ash - Long Thurlow -Stowmarket (Thursdays only) Get timetable 

Council

Badwell Ash is served by Mid Suffolk District Council. Contact customer services.

Councillors

Our County Councillor: Jane Storey
Email:  jane.storey@councillors.suffolkcc.gov.uk

Our District Councillor: Roy Barker
Email:  roy.barker@midsuffolk.gov.uk

Doctors

The nearest Doctors' surgeries are:
Ixworth Surgery, Peddars Close, Ixworth, IP31 2HD Tel:01359 230252
Woolpit Health Centre, Heath Road, Woolpit, IP30 9QU Tel: 01359 240298
The nearest hospital is West Suffolk Hospital, Hardwick Lane, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2QZ Switchboard: 01284 713000 

Electricity

EDF Energy Network provide the local power supply. For emergencies and power cut information: 0800 783 8838

Fishing

The Fishing Lakes on Back Lane are used and maintained by West Suffolk College Fishing Club, primarily for staff members of the College. The club has some limited availability for local people to use the lakes for pleasure fishing. Local seniors, adults, children and families can join as associate members on a yearly basis. The club only accepts responsible members. Pleasure fishing is not permitted during Gun Club hours or during competition matches.
Call Brian Nunn on 01359 242879 for further information.

Libraries

A mobile library comes to Badwell Ash and Long Thurlow on alternate Tuesdays. Get timetable. The nearest libraries are Elmswell, Cooks Road, Elmswell, IP30 9BX, Telephone: 01359 240974 (closed Mondays) and Ixworth, Village Hall, High Street, Ixworth, IP31 2HH Telephone: 01359 231493 (closed Mondays). Larger libraries can be found in the main towns.

Member of Parliament

Our MP: David Ruffley (Conservative)
Email: info@tellDavidRuffley.com

Neighbourhood Watch

There are 7 Neighbourhood Watch Schemes in the parish of Badwell Ash, including one in Long Thurlow. For more information click here.

Police

In an emergency DIAL 999.
You should dial 999 when life is threatened or people are injured, or if there is a crime in progress or an immediate police response is necessary.

Badwell Ash is served by Suffolk Police's Mid Suffolk Central Safer Neighbourhood Team. The team is based in Debenham. The PC covering Badwell Ash is PC873 Clare Wayman, and the Police Community Support Officer is PCSO 3148 Vince Clarkson.

Phone: 01284 774100 to talk to the team, or report problems such as anti-social behaviour, fly tipping, noise, litter or abandoned cars.
Address: Debenham Police Station, 14 Low Road, Debenham, IP14 6QU.
Email:     midsuffcentral.snt@suffolk.pnn.police.uk
Fax:        01728 860874

Rail

The nearest railway station is at Elmswell. Trains from this station are on the stopping service between Ipswich and Cambridge. They connect with services to London Liverpool Street at Stowmarket and Ipswich (note: travellers for London from Elmswell are expected to travel via Ipswich, not Cambridge). Elmswell does not have a ticket office - tickets can be purchased on board.
Faster, direct trains to London leave from Stowmarket, which is on direct lines between Liverpool St and Norwich, and Liverpool St and Peterborough. Tickets from Stowmarket must be purchased before boarding the train.
The train operator in East Anglia is National Express. Get timetable

Recycling & Rubbish

Mid Suffolk operates an alternate weekly collection scheme, collecting rubbish one week and recycling the next.
The council allocates bin sizes depending on the size of your household. Check sizes. There is an assisted collection service for the elderly and infirm if there is no one in the household able to move bins to the front of the property on collection days.
Find out what you can put in your recycling bin here.
Extra recycling can be put out beside the recycling bin in clear bags, or in authorised clear bags; extra rubbish can only be put out in authorised orange bags by the rubbish bin.
Authorised recycling/rubbish/garden waste bags can be bought at Badwell Stores - get prices.
A new garden waste brown bin service is being rolled out across Mid Suffolk. Check if it operates in your postcode. There is a fee for this service. Otherwise garden waste can be put out on rubbish collection days in authorised green bags.
Local Recycling sites for glass, paper and fabric are shown on this map. Please note there are no recycling facilities at the Village Hall site anymore.
Recyclable waste including larger items can also be taken to MidSuffolk Council's Household Waste and Recycling Centres. See opening hours and acceptable waste here. The nearest centres are:
    Stowmarket: Old Bury Road, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1JQ, A1308 (slip road off Eastbound A14) at the north-west side of town
    Brome: Eye Industrial Estate, Brome, Eye, Suffolk, IP23 7HN On B1077, 2 miles north of Eye
    Bury St Edmunds: Rougham Road (U8048), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 2RN, Off A134 Town side of A14 ie opposite side of A14 to Sainsbury's