On 19th June Uttlesford District Council will vote on the draft Local Plan. For residents of Great & Little Chesterford and surrounding communities, it is important that you let your local councillor know how you feel and do it NOW!… Continue Reading →
In May 2018, StopNUtown published a 20-page booklet about the proposed North Uttlesford Garden Community (NUGC). The booklet outlines why NUGC is “the wrong place for the wrong reasons” and will not be sustainable, and how the conduct of UDC… Continue Reading →
StopNUtown Action Group is a voluntary organisation, non-political and funded by residents of Uttlesford. Our aim is to promote and protect the interests of communities in North Uttlesford threatened by the creation of a new town which will put 5,000… Continue Reading →
We raise money in two ways: by direct contribution from individuals and businesses who believe as we do that a new town in North Uttlesford is not needed and will be highly destructive; and through fundraising events. Your donation will help… Continue Reading →
For many observers of the local plan process, the North Essex Garden Communities have represented a benchmark. The 3-community scheme has been in process for some years and is backed by the Government. And yet when submitted to the planning… Continue Reading →
On the eve of UDC’s Planning Policy Working Group meeting to finalise the district local plan (ready for cabinet and ultimately a full council vote), StopNUtown Action Group published an open Letter to Council leader, Howard Rolfe, which contains four… Continue Reading →
Michael Young has over the years intensively studied Uttlesford’s jobs and population growth, first in the context of Stansted Airport and latterly for the Local Plan and its implication for housing. He has for some while argued that the figure for housing need in Uttlesford… Continue Reading →
Following our MP’s visit to Great Chesterford for the annual village meeting the action group has written to Mrs Badenoch in response to remarks she made and to provide a fuller explanation of comments made to her in the Q&A… Continue Reading →
Extract of an article about transport provisions for new “garden communities” points to a continuing car dependency and debunks claims that new communities’ residents will make only 30 per cent of their journeys by car instead of the 70 per cent of… Continue Reading →
It’s official – The planning system is broken. That may seem like a statement of the bleedin’ obvious, but it is also the conclusion of an interim report published by former MP and minister for Housing, Nick Raynsford, who as… Continue Reading →
Every household and business in the CB10 and CB11 postal districts (that’s nearly 15,000) has received a booklet published by StopNUtown Action Group. Far from being a nimbyist charter, the 20-page booklet asks searching questions about national and local housing… Continue Reading →
Part of the problem we and many other communities face is the Government’s national housing policy. The only way we can be heard at Government level is for action groups to act collectively. StopNUtown has been instrumental in helping to… Continue Reading →
Grosvenor Estate is the nominated developer of North Uttlesford Garden Community. Following the unveiling of Grosvenor’s “vision” for NUGC, StopNUtown wrote to the Director of Strategic Land at Grosvenor to place on record a range of concerns about their proposals…. Continue Reading →
Our new campaign along the B184 adjacent to the proposed new town site. A sequence of placards reads: 5000 houses here; Wrong place; Traffic Hell; No way! We have also placed new placards on the roundabout intersections with the M11 and… Continue Reading →
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