Executive summary
A short plain-English introduction to the proposal and the main reasons for concern.
Official portal document 4793899
Read PDFPlanning application UTT/26/1635/OP
Our objections
Read the Save Church End documents submitted to Uttlesford District Council, including the latest representations on omitted landscape viewpoints, housing-market absorption, wastewater and infrastructure capacity.
Verified public record
Our complete objection library, brought together in one place
Fourteen documents are website copies of official portal files. Three further supplementary representations—the applicant-document audit, barbastelle bat assessment and response to the Council's Landscape Review—were submitted by email and are shown here while the Council processes them for publication.
Postal addresses have been removed from website copies for privacy. The planning arguments have not been changed. The Council's portal remains the authoritative record of what it has formally published.
The main case
Core objection documents
Plain-English master objection
The main objection written so residents and decision-makers can follow the complete case clearly.
Official portal document 4793895
Read PDFTechnical planning objection
The detailed evidence-led planning case, including transport, drainage, services, heritage and ecology.
Official portal document 4793906
Read PDFNPPF decision tests review
A focused review of the proposal against the relevant National Planning Policy Framework tests.
Official portal document 4793907
Read PDFLocal Plan refusal position
Why the increase from the allocated 715 homes to 850 must be tested against the adopted Local Plan.
Official portal document 4796160
Read PDFPhotographic, video and drone evidence appendix
Local visual evidence covering flooding, drainage, otters beside the River Chelmer and the landscape and heritage setting seen from the Recreation Ground, Beaumont Hill and the path to Merks Hill.
Official portal document 4793910
Read PDFFurther evidence
Supplementary objections
Response to the Council's Landscape Review
Why the review must assess the connected sequence of elevated public views from Beaumont Hill, The Causeway, Lime Tree Hill and the public footpath towards St Mary's Church, the churchyard and River Chelmer.
Submitted by email on 12 September 2026 · awaiting Council publication
Read PDFHousing-market absorption and deliverability
Why the Council should verify sales, occupation, affordability and delivery on existing Great Dunmow developments before permitting another 850-home, car-dependent scheme.
Official portal document 4810325
Read PDFAnglian Water late response and wastewater safeguards
Why Anglian Water's late admission that Great Dunmow Water Recycling Centre lacks capacity cannot be resolved by its suggested condition, with the constrained sewer route, environmental limits and unresolved SuDS responsibility also examined.
Official portal document 4800966
Read PDFFire-service capacity and emergency response
Why a financial contribution does not demonstrate that Great Dunmow's existing on-call fire-service capacity and emergency attendance problems will be resolved.
Official portal document 4800970
Read PDFBarbastelle bat evidence and cross-boundary assessment
Evidence concerning a very rare Annex II barbastelle bat, nationally important activity and the need to assess the connected boundary, woodland, hedgerows and river corridor across adjoining sites.
Submitted by email on 23 August 2026 · awaiting Council publication
Read PDFElectricity-network capacity and deliverability
The applicant's own figures, provisional UK Power Networks offer, competing connection demand and unresolved reinforcement do not demonstrate a secured supply for the all-electric development.
Official portal document 4799788
Read PDFApplicant document audit: 16 unresolved problems
A document-by-document audit of the applicant's 70 original submission documents, identifying 16 material omissions, contradictions and unresolved evidence requirements.
Submitted by email on 21 August 2026 · awaiting Council publication
Read PDFCumulative surface-water discharge
Evidence about the combined effect of existing developments discharging towards the River Chelmer.
Official portal document 4795158
Read PDFSewage discharge during drought
Questions raised by a reported untreated sewage discharge during officially declared drought conditions.
Official portal document 4797613
Read PDFClean-water and wastewater capacity
Two separate infrastructure issues: drinking-water supply and pressure, and wastewater treatment capacity.
Official portal document 4797698
Read PDFAugust 2026 NPPF supplementary representation
How the revised national decision-making policies reinforce the unresolved objections on transport, services, flooding, infrastructure, landscape, heritage and ecology.
Official portal document 4799187
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