If you are distressed about today’s traffic chaos on Cambridge Road near Tesco and are concerned that the current planning appeal proposals for development on the land behind Tesco will make the situation worse, please read this letter and make your own representations to the Planning Inspectorate. Your Village Does Need You! Write by Monday, March 7th!   […]

You have until March 7th to tell the Planning Inspectorate what you think about the appeal against refusal of planning permission at 14 Cambridge Road, Stansted. The appeal reference is: APP/C1570/W/15/3141191. The refused planning application reference is: UTT/15/1666/FUL. You can write to the Planning Inspectorate on their planning portal at: https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk or by emailing: teamp1@pins.gsi.gov.uk. THREE […]

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 […]

This is an extract from my article in next month’s Stansted Link. Since I wrote it there have been several incidents such as cars and lorries parking between the zig-zag markings for the pedestrian crossing that have roused public anger on Facebook. A public campaign may be underway to demand action. The following story shows […]

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 & […]

I returned from a holiday in Peru last week to a planning committee report that I consider a disgrace. Having been withheld from the agenda of the September meeting because of false evidence, 14 Cambridge Road was on yesterday’s committee agenda with an officer recommendation for approval. I read the officers’ report and I was […]

I was informed on Friday that a key argument in favour of the planning application behind Stansted’s main shopping street at Cambridge Road has been based on false data. The applicant’s transport statement says that the floor area of the demolished buildings that stood on the site until the beginning of 2013 was 7,973 square […]

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 […]

Patients will be provided with dedicated parking at Stansted’s long-awaited health centre after all. 🙂 This was confirmed yesterday at a meeting I chaired with representatives from the GP practice and district and parish councils. Thirty-three spaces at the Lower Street car park will be marked out for the health centre. Roughly half will be […]

The NHS and a health centre developer are backtracking on promised parking for patients at Stansted’s proposed health centre. Fifty parking spaces for patients and staff were promised by Hilton Group in their 2012/13 planning application. Now only 30 spaces are proposed, with NONE for patients. Unwell residents from Stansted and surrounding villages who need to […]