This morning I attended as a spectator a meeting where it was hoped the final go-ahead would be given for Stansted’s long-awaited health centre. The board of the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) gave the scheme its blessing at about 10 a.m., saying they are”firmly behind it”; BUT they don’t hold the purse strings. […]

  Will Stansted residents every see their promised new health centre in Lower Street? The centre has had planning permission for over 13 months, but not a brick has yet been laid. Recent conversations I have held within and outside the NHS suggest cautious optimism; though it has to be said that has been the […]

This was just one description of Lady Madge Moseley at her funeral in Cambridge today. It was precisely apt. Determined – that things would be done her way. But her skills of influence over other people were persuasive and her case passionately put. Her advocacy probably developed during Madge’s time as a civil service trade unionist. Her belief in […]

Fears remain about the ability of Stansted’s Lower Street car park to cope in future years. Representations from Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council and district councillors Iris Evans and me will be published on Monday in the agenda pack for Uttlesford’s cabinet meeting on March 26th. Click here to read what the parish council wrote. Iris’s and […]

Stansted’s long-awaited health centre received tentative planning approval last week. The 4-5 storey building in Lower Street, still the subject of much division within the village over its inclusion of residential apartments and a retail floor, was approved without an answer being given to how its users will park their cars and delivery vehicles. There is also concern […]

“We have serious reservations about the viability of the proposed retail space…….major concerns about the viability of the proposed residential space……we are concerned that the proposed parking arrangements will not meet the needs of uses within the proposed building upon completion and into the future and have a serious impact on users of the existing […]

Today’s Observer covers the car park controversy at Lower Street, Stansted. The report commissioned by the parish council on whether the car park can accommodate the extra vehicles for an almost 4,000 sq. metres (almost 30,000 sq. feet) development including a health centre is due out later today. A Stansted resident, Ray Woodcock, has criticised the parish […]

Stansted’s proposed new health centre is being redesigned. Just two weeks after Pelham Structures’ planning application in Lower Street was turned down, Pelham’s Bill Bampton came to Stansted last night to announce that his company is designing a new building in a more traditional style that will rise to only three storeys with attics. Whilst […]

Reports on two planning applications in Stansted Mountfitchet have been published in advance of the planning committee’s meeting next Wednesday, May 30th. Both have caused much controversy. The health centre application has created enthusiastic support and vigorous opposition. This report is silent on the views Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council as they came to UDC too late for […]

Essex Highways are not yet ready to say whether Stansted’s new health centre is a workable plan. So last night the parish council put off considering the planning application, which includes a large retail outlet and luxury apartments. The planning authority at Uttlesford will not be considering the application on May 2nd. The next possible date […]