Petition to abandon plans to build an Eco-town in Elsenham
June 12th, 2008The UK Government plans to build 3 million houses by 2020. Part of this is the proposal is to build an ‘Eco Town’ between Elsenham & Henham. This will constitute 5,000 new houses being built on a Greenfield site. Currently the population of Elsenham is about 1500. So even with a low estimation of 2 people per new house, this would increase the population from 1500 to 11500.
A blow for village history, character and the environment
To cut a long story short this will ruin the scenery, history, atmosphere and environment of both Henham and Elsenham. The current infrastructure of roads and railway can’t cope with the present population (I travel to London every day and the train is already operating at capacity a.k.a overcrowded).
There is an online government petition where you can sign up with an email address (that won’t be spammed) to show your support against this proposal.
Sign the petition
There are currently 558 signatures on the petition, please show your support and sign up here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/kenmcneil/
Thanks!
NB. You must be a British citizen or resident to sign the petition.
Update 18 June 2008
There are now 714 signatures on the petition, that is nearly 200 additional signatures over the last 7 days which is great news!
Current pictures of Elsenham/Ugley Green
For reference, currently Elsenham/Henham and Ugley Green look like this, with your help we can keep it this way!
Please register me as totally opposed to the eco-twon in Elsenham. The character of villages will be destroyed and the area will become an urban sprawl. There is no demand for such housing in the area and the infrastructure of the roads cannot support it. There is no provision for primary school children in the plans and our schools are already full. The railway service is already stretched and this would only make matters worse. Also building right next to an airport cannot be a good idea from the point of view of the air quality. Please register my vote against this development.
Posted on: June 18th, 2008 at 9:21 am39 Vernons Close
Posted on: June 19th, 2008 at 10:07 amHenham
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I am totally opposed to the eco-twon in Elsenham. The character of villages will be destroyed and the area will become an urban sprawl. There is no demand for such housing in the area and the infrastructure of the roads cannot support it now . There is no provision for primary school children in the plans and our schools are already full. The railway service is already stretched and this would only make matters worse. Building right next to an airport cannot be a good idea from the point of view of the air quality.There is no provision for other supermarkets to come into this area other then Tesco,s which at Great Dunmow cannot cope with the demand on it already.To go any where by bus takes nearly all day, as on some routes you are required to go into the airport to change buses.Therefore people use their cars to go any where , more houses would mean more cars on the roads.
Posted on: June 26th, 2008 at 4:13 pmWith other 4,200 houses originally allocated to Uttlesford we would then have 9,200 houses in these area .
I an stronley against this development.
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Posted on: July 19th, 2008 at 2:06 pm