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
UPDATE: Uttlesford Local Plan: Parish Submission
UPDATE: please follow this link to see the submission made by your Parish Council. You have until Friday to make your submissions, which do make a difference. Remember you do not need to reply to every question. If you only have a single point to make against a single question then please do so.
Original message:
Following on from our earlier news item about the Uttlesford Local Plan, and the possibility of 10,000 houses being build on agricultural land adjoining the Parish, we have been asked to provide some additional guidance to help people respond to the consultation.
Documents:
The web page with all information can be found here.
The detailed consultation document is here.
The word document to insert your responses can be downloaded here.
How will Felsted Parish Council respond?
We are finalising our detailed response to the consultation. This will be finalised for approval at the full council meeting on 2nd December. Key to our response will be the following points:
In response to question 10, we believe that the principle of Uttlesford building one or more new settlements of up to 10,000 houses in providing for the future development needs of the District is wrong.
Following on from this, and in response to question 16, we shall be objecting to the single new settlement, as outlined in ‘Scenario A’, and supporting ‘Scenario D’, where smaller developments are sited around the District to support local housing needs.
Central to our submission is our response to Q11, detailing why we believe that building a garden village in Area 9, adjoining Felsted Parish to the north, would be wrong.
We will highlight that Area 9:
- Potentially joins on to a site identified as a part of the Braintree Local Plan ‘call for sites’. If both are adopted then Felsted would be in the shadow of a major development and joined to Rayne by a new Garden Village.
- Will irreparably damage the cultural and unique heritage of Felsted, destroying what makes it an attractive place to live
- Will result in increased traffic and congestion in Felsted Parish and village
- Has poor access to rail networks via Braintree and Chelmsford
- Has limited access to the A120 due to a restricted access junction
- Has grade 2 agricultural land that should be protected
- Will require more infrastructure, specifically GPs, of whom there is both a national and local shortage
- Will not deliver the necessary employment opportunities. Despite statements that employment will result, it is likely that most residents would commute to existing centres of employment. This could result in Felsted centre being used as a commuter route into Chelmsford.
What can you do?
Your Parish Council has a voice in the consultation, and so do you. It is vital that we all add our individual responses to make sure we are heard. If we, as residents, don’t spend 30 minutes to add our personal responses, then we cannot guarantee that we will be heard.
If you agree with the Parish Council, please do not simply copy the above points, as multiple ‘copy and paste’ responses risk being viewed as a single submission.
Remember, whilst the word document asks many questions about different aspects of the Local Planning process, you do not need to answer every question. If you have a single point to make on a single question then you can submit just that point, simply leave the other boxes empty.
Please download the word document above, add your comments and send to this email address: ku.vog.drofselttu@ycilopgninnalp.
It is your Parish, have your say.
Uttlesford Local Plan: guidance on having your say
Following on from our earlier news item about the Uttlesford Local Plan, and the possibility of 10,000 houses being build on agricultural land adjoining the Parish, we have been asked to provide some additional guidance to help people respond to the consultation.
Documents:
The web page with all information can be found here.
The detailed consultation document is here.
The word document to insert your responses can be downloaded here.
How will Felsted Parish Council respond?
We are finalising our detailed response to the consultation. This will be finalised for approval at the full council meeting on 2nd December. Key to our response will be the following points:
In response to question 10, we believe that the principle of Uttlesford building one or more new settlements of up to 10,000 houses in providing for the future development needs of the District is wrong.
Following on from this, and in response to question 16, we shall be objecting to the single new settlement, as outlined in ‘Scenario A’, and supporting ‘Scenario D’, where smaller developments are sited around the District to support local housing needs.
Central to our submission is our response to Q11, detailing why we believe that building a garden village in Area 9, adjoining Felsted Parish to the north, would be wrong.
We will highlight that Area 9:
- Potentially joins on to a site identified as a part of the Braintree Local Plan ‘call for sites’. If both are adopted then Felsted would be in the shadow of a major development and joined to Rayne by a new Garden Village.
- Will irreparably damage the cultural and unique heritage of Felsted, destroying what makes it an attractive place to live
- Will result in increased traffic and congestion in Felsted Parish and village
- Has poor access to rail networks via Braintree and Chelmsford
- Has limited access to the A120 due to a restricted access junction
- Has grade 2 agricultural land that should be protected
- Will require more infrastructure, specifically GPs, of whom there is both a national and local shortage
- Will not deliver the necessary employment opportunities. Despite statements that employment will result, it is likely that most residents would commute to existing centres of employment. This could result in Felsted centre being used as a commuter route into Chelmsford.
What can you do?
Your Parish Council has a voice in the consultation, and so do you. It is vital that we all add our individual responses to make sure we are heard. If we, as residents, don’t spend 30 minutes to add our personal responses, then we cannot guarantee that we will be heard.
If you agree with the Parish Council, please do not simply copy the above points, as multiple ‘copy and paste’ responses risk being viewed as a single submission.
Remember, whilst the word document asks many questions about different aspects of the Local Planning process, you do not need to answer every question. If you have a single point to make on a single question then you can submit just that point, simply leave the other boxes empty.
Please download the word document above, add your comments and send to this email address: ku.vog.drofselttu@ycilopgninnalp.
It is your Parish, have your say.
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.