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
Increased noise disturbance from Stansted airport flights
Your Parish Council has continued to receive complaints about noise and disturbance from increased flights out of Stansted.
This is due to the change in flight path usage, introduced in February 2016. Stansted moved flights, which previously took off to the west and south of the Parish, to directly over the Parish of Felsted. This has already more than doubled the planes passing directly over us.
You can read the original news item here.
We have now also written to the CAA here, and their response can be read here. Following on from this we have now written to the Secretary of State for Transport here, with a covering letter to our MP, Sir Alan Haselhurst asking him to take up the objection for us, here.
We are also lobbying the District Council and Stansted Airport Consultative Committee (STACC). We are also working with Stop Stansted Expansion group and other affected Parish Councils in the area, who are taking similar action.
Our goal is to have the change reversed at, or before, the official change review.
As proved vital in the successful defeat of the Catesby planning application, we need continued involvement from the community. Every single complaint counts and helps our cause.
As a result of Stansted airport switching off its freephone complaints line, it is now an online process to complain, but it is simple.
It takes just a couple of minutes to complete the form. This can be used to complain about specific noisy planes (where you need to give the date and time of the disturbance), or about the broader noise problem. Please do both.
Using the form via the Stop Stansted Expansion group’s website allows your complaint to be noted and used in their arguments, whilst also being forwarded to the Stansted Airport noise complaint team.
For more information, please contact Cllr Andy Bennett.
Felsted News needs a new editor: could it be you?
The ‘Felsted News’ newsletter has been important to the Parish Council, enabling us to reach everyone in the parish with news and information, especially those who are not online.
Produced 3 times a year, and delivered free to every household, ‘Felsted News’ is an A4 size, 4 page magazine style newsletter.
With the current editor, Alan Thawley, having moved away from the Parish after many dedicated years service as a councillor, we are now looking at options for the future, including working with Interface, the village church magazine.
Would you like to take on the role of ‘Felsted News’ editor?
Do you have some ideas about how we could produce Felsted News in the future?
Perhaps you have some ideas about how we can keep those not online up to date with what is happening in the Parish?
If you would like to have a chat about your ideas, or would like to find out more about this important role, please contact Diane Smith the Parish clerk or speak to one of your councillors.
UPDATE: Planning Application for Land to the South of Braintree Road
July 1st UPDATE: the planning application was considered at the Uttlesford Planing meeting held on 29th June and was refused.
Cllr Chris Woodhouse spoke at the meeting on behalf of the council, proposing refusal.
We understand that there were a number of grounds on which the application was refused, not least of which was the number of objections received from residents.
May 26th UPDATE: the planning application will NOT now be considered on 1st June. We believe it will now be considered at the meeting on 29th June. However, we understand that the site visit will likely still go ahead on the morning of the 1st June.
Original news item:
The outline application for Land to the South of Braintree Road, Felsted for up to 55 dwellings, means of access and associated works, with all other matters (relating to appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) reserved, can be read in detail here UTT/16/0287/OP.
Felsted Parish Council planning Committee discussed this at length, and has submitted an objection to the application. This can be read in detail here.
This application will be the subject of an Uttlesford District Council planning committee site visit and review, to be held on 1st June.
It must be understood that it is not allowed for any approach or representation to be made to any council member during the site visit.
The time and place to make representation is at the Planning Committee meeting.
This link takes you to full details of the meeting and how you can have your say.