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
Please scoop up your dog’s poop
We have recently seen an increase in the amount of dog poo on pavements around the parish and left on the allotments. As is usually the case, this is caused by a minority of owners, not the responsible majority.
This is a health hazard, both to pedestrians and to those doing their best to grow their own vegetables on the allotments.
Please do keep your dogs on a lead whilst on the allotments and make use of the 12 dog bins around the village when walking your dog. Please use them for your dog’s poo, encourage others to do similar, and help keep our Parish healthy and clean.
On a similar litter subject. Your Parish council has arranged a number of ‘litter picks’ to help clear up the litter discarded in our Parish, usually by lazy drivers preferring to litter our lanes rather than take their rubbish home. If everyone walking their dog, or just enjoying the fresh air on a stroll around our Parish, picked up one piece of litter, then we would have a cleaner tidier Parish.
We can all do our bit to help preserve the beauty of Felsted.
Local Plan consultations with proposals for 10,000 houses adjoining Felsted – have your say!
Uttlesford District Council is required to produce a Local Plan, which identifies areas for future housing development.
This process should not be confused with the Felsted Neighbourhood Plan, which is defining a vision for all aspects of Parish life, and which will provide vital input into the Uttlesford Local Plan on behalf of the Parish.
The Issues and Options Consultation for the Uttlesford Local Plan has now started, link here. In the document, ‘Area of Search 9’ has the potential for a significant impact on our Parish.
Braintree District Council is also producing a Local Plan. They have released more detailed information about the area encompassing ‘Area 9’. Zoom in on the map here, as illustrated below, and you will see that the development extends across the Felsted Parish boundary, as part of a major proposal being submitted in Braintree for 10,000 houses.
Should this area be adopted by the Uttlesford and Braintree Plans, it will result in a New Town development of 10,000 houses, attached at its boundary to Gransmore Green, with a clear impact on the independence and character of the Parish.
Felsted Parish Council has joined forces with neighbouring Parishes, to ensure that we adopt a coordinated approach to preventing this development.
It is also important that individuals have their say to ensure that all voices are heard alongside the input provided by your Parish Council.
There will be an opportunity to put questions about the Local Plan process and consultation to district councillors and council officers at three public meetings. The most local to Felsted is at 7pm, Thursday 12 November, at Helena Romanes School.
The consultation closes at 4:30pm on Friday 4 December. You don’t have to answer all questions, so please don’t leave it for everyone else to say what you are thinking.
Essex Police Crime Reports
Essex Police issues a ‘Partnership Document’ detailing crimes in the county. These are routinely copied to the Parish Council, whether or not there are any reported incidents in the parish.
We have been asked to copy these reports to the website and will be adding them to this page in future, so that residents are both aware of reported crimes and alert to ways in which they can make property secure.
It should be noted that Uttlesford is a safe place to live. It has the 4th lowest crime rate in Essex at 3.4 offences per 1,000 population (Home Office, 2013/14). The rate of recorded offences has been steadily falling since 2003-04. Across the whole district rates are extremely low with vast majority of crimes relating to criminal damage, non-dwelling burglaries, and thefts from motor vehicles.
You can also sign up for Essex Community Messaging to receive alerts regarding policing and community safety issues which affect you.