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 […]

Thrown out! For the fifth time since 2012 a planning scheme behind Tesco at Cambridge Road, Stansted was thrown out last Wednesday. The tally is now four refusals by Uttlesford’s planning committee and one dismissal of an appeal by a government inspector. Surely now is the time for the landowners at the former London & […]

These are the words of former Tory MP and Conservative thinker David Willetts writing in today’s Observer newspaper. His article is about the government being good to elderly people at the expense of young people, future generations.   George Osborne’s plan to cut tax credits for working low paid families, causing a loss of income […]

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 […]

It must be election time again. Uttlesford Tories, fresh from the defeat of their Local Plan, are trying (in vain) to pass the burden onto their opposition; this time the Liberal Democrats. This linked page from last week’s Saffron Walden Reporter says a lot about Conservatives. Firstly, the letter from Mark Hayes: in the midst […]

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 […]

DRAFT LETTER FROM UTTLESFORD DISTRICT COUNCIL TO MR ROY FOSTER, INSPECTOR, THE PLANNING INSPECTORATE   January 2015   Dear Mr Foster RE: Examination of the Uttlesford Local Plan (ULP) Thank you for your final conclusions from the terminated examination of the Uttlesford Local Plan which we received on 19 December 2014. We cannot deny your […]

Uttlesford council’s Liberal Democrats issued the following press release at 9 a.m. today:   Uttlesford’s Liberal Democrat councillors met on Sunday (December 7th) in the aftermath of last Wednesday’s rejection of the council’s local plan by planning inspector Roy Foster. The council’s main opposition group wants the cabinet members responsible for the failed, unsound plan […]

Uttlesford’s Local Plan has been rejected by Inspector Roy Foster at today’s hearing of the Examination in Public in Saffron Walden. Eight years have been wasted on an unsound plan by the ruling Tories. Senior people at the council should consider their positions. They have failed the district, its residents and its businesses. A new […]

The planning appeal to cram 14 houses behind the Co-op and Tesco at 14 Cambridge Road, Stansted has been DISMISSED. That is excellent news and vindication for those who refused to accept official planning advice. Read the inspector’s decision notice. Stansted’s Neighbourhood Plan work can now get underway to come up with proposals for this […]