WELCOME TO FELSTED

Did you know that you can recycle your real Christmas tree after the holidays by taking it to one of the local recycling points provided by Uttlesford District Council?

Refuse vehicles will be made available at a number of locations around the district – simply take along your Christmas tree for disposal. Other green waste can also be disposed of at the same time.

The recycled Christmas trees and garden waste can be turned into good quality compost or soil conditioner, or into chippings.

The refuse vehicle service will be available at Bannister Green from 11.30am-12.30pm on Sunday 7th January.

With our best wishes for a Happy New Year from all of us at Felsted Parish Council.

There are 2 important consultations and presentation events over the coming days.

Local Plan

There are plans to build a new town just north of Felsted. Read the full news item here.

There is a consultation running now, with presentations being held to explain the plans. The closest events to Felsted are:

Monday 27th November 16.00-20.00: Old Friend’s Meeting House, Rosemary Lane, Stebbing, CM6 3RR.

Wednesday 6th December 16.00-20.00: Braintree Town Hall, Market Square, Braintree, CM7 3YG

Tuesday 12th December 10.00-14.00: Rayne Village Hall, 3 Gore Road, Rayne, CM77 6TX

Stansted expansion

Stansted airport is planning to double passenger numbers. Read our full news item here.

The airport is holding a final event to explain its plans and take local feedback:

Friday 1 December 2017 16:00 – 20:00: Talberd Room, Foakes Hall, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DG

It is important for residents to have their say about these plans. Please don’t leave it to someone else or just assume nothing will change. You can read more about Felsted Parish Council’s concerns and reasons for opposition with the original news items, linked above.

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Following on from the scoping document issued by Stansted airport and detailed here, the airport is now holding 3 events to explain their expansion plans.

The airport has announced that it now plans to increase passenger numbers to 43 million, rather than 44.5 million, which means that it can achieve its expansion plans within currently approved flight and environmental planning limits and so seek a more local level of approval.

In statements, the airport is claiming to have responded to concerns raised in response to its scoping document.

Brian Ross, deputy chairman of Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) commented as follows: “The airport claims it has listened to the local community but it has done no such thing. Its new proposal is just a cynical ploy to try to reduce the level of objection to its planning application and allow the application to be dealt with locally rather than nationally. This is not a retreat from its original plans. All the airport has done is to remove the 44.5mppa projection for 2029 and only project to 2028, which is 43mppa. If the airport genuinely wanted to give the local community long term certainty, it would give us all an assurance that 43mppa would be the limit of its expansion ambitions for Stansted.”

Stansted airport has also completely ignored the fact that, in 2017, noise complaints have increased by 20 times when compared to those recorded in 2015. This increase in complaints is due to the changes in flight path usage introduced in 2016, which moved flights onto Clacton routes over Felsted Parish. We are still awaiting the results from a CAA review, which was due in May of 2017.

Stansted airport has made no proposals to mitigate the problems caused by these flightpath changes, despite receiving submissions from Parishes calling for the reversal of the changes and asking for the spread of flights across the Noise Preferrential Routes (NPRs), rather than focussing them down on the unlucky.

There are however, some signs that the CAA are taking some notice of the massive increase in noise complaints, so it remains important that we continue to complain about noisy planes using the SSE form here.

Stansted must work with Parishes to reduce the impact of the flightpath changes, before planning for further expansion.

We must make our voices heard at these events.

Event dates

Tuesday 21 November 2017
4pm until 8pm

Radisson Blu Hotel, Waltham Close, Stansted Airport, CM24 1PP
Free parking for this session is available at the hotel, on registering at the event.

Thursday 23 November 2017
4pm until 8pm

St Michael’s Church, 1 Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford, CM23 2ND

Friday 1 December 2017
4pm until 8pm

Talberd Room, Foakes Hall, Stortford Road, Great Dunmow, CM6 1DG

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