CRESSING PARISH COUNCILBraintree Local Plan Review – Consultation
Help shape the future of the Braintree district!
BDC are at the next stage of the Braintree District Local Plan review process, and BDC need your input!
What is a Local Plan?
It’s a document that guides future development and growth that is sustainable. It identifies land for future housing, employment and infrastructure needs, whilst best protecting and enhancing the natural and built environment.
What does this next stage cover?
This is the ‘Issues & Options’ stage. This is where BDC outline the key challenges for future development and ask for your views on how BDC can best address these through planning policies.
You can comment on whether the vision, objectives and policies continue to be appropriate and if not, suggest changes you feel will help ensure BDC meet the district’s needs.
It explores a range of topics including housing, local economy and retail, transport, infrastructure and the environment.
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Other ways to find out more & comment
The quickest and easiest way to comment is through our new engagement portal.
You can also:
- view hard copies of the document and pick up a paper response form at council offices at Causeway House in Braintree or the following local libraries: Braintree, Coggeshall, Earls Colne, Halstead, Hatfield Peverel, Kelvedon, Sible Hedingham, Silver End and Witham during normal opening hours
- return a response form to planningpolicy@braintree.gov.uk or by post to Planning Policy, Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree CM7 9HB
Drop-in exhibitions
Drop-in events will be held across the district where anyone can go along, meet planning officers, share their ideas and thoughts, and ask questions about the plan.
- Monday 27 January: Kelvedon Institute Small Hall 4pm-7:30pm
- Tuesday 28 January: Coggeshall Village Hall 4pm-7:30pm
- Wednesday 29 January: Halstead Queens Hall 4pm-7:30pm
- Thursday 30 January: Hatfield Peverel Village Hall 4pm-7:30pm
- Tuesday 4 February: Braintree Town Hall 4pm-7:30pm
- Thursday 6 February: Witham Public Hall 3.30pm-7pm
- Saturday 8 February: Braintree Town Hall 9am-12noon
What happens next?
The consultation will run from today (Monday 20 January) until midnight on Friday 7 March 2025.
Once the consultation has closed, BDC will consider all comments received to help inform the next stage of the Local Plan Review and guide the policies and strategies that will shape the future of the Braintree district.
The next stage will be the ‘Preferred Options’ consultation, where you will have further opportunity to comment on the updated and new policies, and the proposed sites where new homes, jobs and other facilities could be located.
