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 houses in the wrong place for the wrong reasons.
FOR THE RECORD we are not anti-housing. Most of the committee members live in Great Chesterford where there has recently been significant new housing development, welcomed and accepted by the vast majority of residents. This includes shared ownership and for rent within a significant affordable housing provision. Our argument is not with people who proclaim the need for more housing, that is a given. Nor would it be with Great Chesterford as a location for a new community if it made sense. Instead we are faced with landowners looking for a profit and a district council chasing a housing target.
If you would like to get involved with the action group please email
STEERING COMMITTEE
Stephen Ede (Chair)
Jayne Loughran (Treasurer)
Richard Pavitt (Communication and PR)
Charles Reese (Fundraising)
Jon Beard
Neil Paterson
Russell Pope
Bernd Schmidt
Fiona Wilkinson
LIAISON & ADVISORY
Tim Piper (Legal consultant)
May 21, 2018 at 1:56 pm
It is horrendous, the roads into Walden are dreadful already. With so many houses how are the schools going to cope? Even going to the doctors in Chesterford is a mine field. Nobody is taking any notice of how this will congest and impact us. There is no infrastructure in place for a massive development. Please let me know how I can help?
Regards Sarah Williams , 3 Granta Close, CB10 1QP
August 13, 2018 at 12:05 pm
This large scale development is too close to Saffron Walden and uses too much quality farm land . Its proposed population is less than 1/3 of saffron walden but the development footprint is the same size if not larger than the the whole of saffron walden.
The concept of a new town is good, but it shouldn’t take so much prime land and should be sited a greater distance from an existing town.
And, infrastructure should come first so that it is self sufficient. sufficient.