{"id":6858,"date":"2024-11-13T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/?p=6858"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:43:22","slug":"stock-parish-council-mourns-ian-grundy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/?p=6858","title":{"rendered":"Stock Parish Council mourns Ian Grundy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6858\" class=\"elementor elementor-6858\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d8246e6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d8246e6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-857a0a4\" data-id=\"857a0a4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-12e4129 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"12e4129\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-6860\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IanGrundy-560x373.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2cfcefa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2cfcefa\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-706eb59\" data-id=\"706eb59\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9b3712 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c9b3712\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Stock Parish Council has been deeply saddened by the passing of Councillor <strong>Ian Grundy<\/strong>.<\/p><p>A family man, resident of the village for over 30 years and former player for Stock Cricket Club, and an instantly recognisable and friendly face, Ian represented Stock on Chelmsford City Council from 2003 and Essex County Council from 2011 until his death. He served as the County Council\u2019s Cabinet Member for Highways from 2017 to 2018, and the City Council as Cabinet Member for Safer Communities.<\/p><p>Ian regularly attended Stock Parish Council meetings and supported the village and villagers by raising issues relating to Stock at the County and City Councils.<\/p><p>Stock Parish Council Chairman Paul Fenwick paid tribute to his long-time colleague and friend at the Parish Council\u2019s meeting on Tuesday 12 November, where a minute\u2019s silence was held in Ian\u2019s memory.<\/p><p>He said: \u201cIan was first elected as Stock ward councillor in 2003 and served as a Cabinet Member on both councils to which he was elected. As Cabinet Member for Safer Communities on Chelmsford Council, he was influential in improving car parking, introducing the Park &amp; Ride scheme and many other capital projects, including the new civic reception.<\/p><p>\u201cThroughout his time as a councillor, he worked tirelessly for the residents of Stock. Ian was very well liked and a regular face in village and always gave his full support to Stock Parish Council.<\/p><p>\u201cIan will be missed by all of us and we thank him for the amount of time and energy he spent with us and advising the Parish Council on various matters.<\/p><p>\u201cOur sincerest condolences to Ian\u2019s family, especially his wife, Shirlee, and two children, Dean and Louisa, at this sad time.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stock Parish Council has been deeply saddened by the passing of Councillor Ian Grundy. A family man, resident of the village for over 30 years and former player for Stock Cricket Club, and an instantly recognisable and friendly face, Ian represented Stock on Chelmsford City Council from 2003 and Essex County Council from 2011 until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-village-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6858"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6858\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock-pc.gov.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}