WELCOME TO FELSTED
Located in north-west Essex and with a population of around 3,000, the Parish of Felsted has at its heart the historic village of Felsted, surrounded by Greens and Hamlets, in a beautiful rural setting.
Felsted retains the underlying charm and attraction of a rural parish, with the community and village at its heart. This is what attracts people to the area and what we as the Parish Council see as our historic duty to protect. Preservation of our heritage is balanced with a duty to ensure that the Parish thrives and meets the future needs of our community.
Winner of RCCE Village of the Year 2015
“One of the best places to live in the East of England” – The Sunday Times (2013)
LATEST NEWS
Memories of Felsted
The Parish Council is going to pull together an archive of memories, to preserve them for posterity.
This archive will contain video, audio, written and photographic items from in and around the Parish.
Whilst there are of course some members of our community with known archives, we would like to gather together all those simple pictures and stories you may have hidden away.
If you have any old footage, pictures etc then please do not send them in, as we recognise that these items will likely have a lot of personal sentimental value and so want to keep them secure. What we would like you to do is to simply let the Clerk know what you have, so that we can build up a list and begin to work out how we should bring them together and copy them as appropriate.
Felsted Neighbourhood Plan update and survey
The Felsted Neighbourhood Plan (NP) group are continuing to develop a robust Neighbourhood Plan for our Parish. The amount work they have undertaken should not be underestimated and they deserve our thanks and appreciation for stepping up to lead this essential task.
Critical to the success of the process is community involvement. The Parish Council urges all residents to take a little time to learn and read about the Plan and to provide feedback to the Group.
On 7 and 8 July the NP Group held 2 well attended Consultation Events at Felsted Primary School. Many thanks to the 160+ residents who were able to attend and provide feedback on all the policies within the Plan draft document.
If you were unable to attend, it’s not too late to find out what is being proposed and give us your feedback by visiting the NP website at www.felstednp.org.uk.
You can view all the documents presented at the Consultations (including a Summary if time is limited!) and watch a video of Roy Ramm, Chairman, explaining the background to the idea of a Community Hub.
The NP is an important document which will influence how Felsted looks and the services that are available in the village for the next 20 years. Please take the time to visit the website and then complete the short online smart survey (which only takes a few minutes) to let the NP Group have your thoughts and feedback.
Thank you
Diane Smith
Felsted NP Group
Final day for consultations on Stansted expansion and New Town proposals
There are 2 important consultations closing today.
Stansted expansion plans
Read our full news item here.
It is important to have your say if you object to Stansted airport doubling the number of passengers it currently carries.
The process is simple, all you need do is follow the link from the above news item to the Uttlesford planning site and make your objection known.
We are trying to make sure that the impact on communities is recognised and that we are fully consulted in processes to minimise noise disruption, through careful management of flight paths. This level of engagement simply does not happen at present.
Braintree Local Plan
As we have reported on a number of occasions, the Braintree Local Plan includes a shared plan with Uttlesford District Council to build a new town of 10,000 houses to the north of Felsted.
The impact on roads through our Parish and on our services (school places, doctors, water supplies), will be immense.
The Parish council has made this submission, supporting the objections made by the combined Parishes in the area.
You can still have your say. The consultation portal is here. whilst the form itself is complicated you do not need to go into the full detail if you do not wish to. You can simply email to ku.vog.eertniarb@nalplacol, use the heading ‘Local Plan Consultation’ and then provide your comment in the email text.