In recent weeks there has been continual public anger on Facebook/Stansted Matters at the traffic chaos and regular incidents of inconsiderate and dangerous parking close to the pedestrian crossing on Cambridge Road, Stansted. Clicking here will reveal a possible and tentative plan for improving safety, parking and traffic congestion around Tesco and the Coop. The plan requires […]

The latest planning proposal for 14 Cambridge Road, Stansted would damage the vitality and economic success of the Cambridge Road retail and business area. The site would be over-developed and put an intolerable burden on the public’s nearby Crafton Green Car Park because of a connecting pedestrian link. It would aggravate the chaotic parking demand in […]

Uttlesford’s Liberal Democrat councillors aim to amend the Tories’ budget for 2015/16 to make it greener and fairer. The Liberal Democrat alternative budget proposals call for improved recycling, solar energy panels on council building and a fairer way to refund surplus New Homes Bonus to taxpayers. In a press release issued today I said “The Lib Dem […]

Today’s Independent has a Money feature on bank branch closures and features the pending demise of Barclays, Cambridge Road, Stansted. The article quotes local residents Marion and Red Pretty and the bank’s neighbouring hairdresser, Lino Botallico. It is a good article, despite confusing me as parish council chairman rather than Geoffrey Sell. We met management from Barclays on […]

Last week the third planning application for 14 homes at a site in Stansted was refused by Uttlesford’s planning committee. I was on holiday in Scotland last week so could not attend in person to express my objections; so I sent along a video (*) which was viewed by the planning committee. The text is available […]

Last Monday’s blog post on the story of the controversially timed Bank Holiday planning committee meeting containing three controversial planning applications has rumbled on. The Dunmow and Stansted Observer published this story last Thursday on page 3 with the addition of “Their (SSV) concerns are shared by the village’s Lib Dem district councillors, Iris Evans and Alan Dean, who […]

The battle is on for the third time to stop employment land in the commercial centre of Stansted being turned over to 14 town houses. Last year we fought off two planning applications from Bellway Homes for 14 houses in a “gated enclave” (their description). The latest application from Land Charter Stansted Ltd and London and […]

Another planning application for 14 homes at 14 Cambridge Road, Stansted has been deposited with the council. Read some of the background HERE and again HERE. Details of the application can be read HERE and comments can be made also on the UDC website. This site and the two adjacent sites make up Stansted’s main central area for future business and local […]

This trophy was presented to me in Stansted by MP Sir Alan Haselhurst on April 5th. The Herts and Essex Observer’s account of the event can be read here. More details on the award can be read in my previous post.

Stansted has come fourth in a UK award to succesful e-commerce towns. This is a great boost in the month that Stansted’s own business forum was launched. I am expecting to be interviewed on BBC Essex tomorrow morning (this was pulled). The following press release went out this morning from the organizers of the award scheme. Stansted crowned a leading […]