The Braintree Green Spaces Strategy was adopted by the Council’s Local Development Framework Panel on 4 September 2008. The key aims of the Strategy are to provide accessible high quality green spaces and sport and recreation facilities which meet the recreational needs of all sections of the community, to engage the local community to participate in their improvement and management, and to raise their profile and promote their benefit to the District. It draws on the results of the open space audit and the community surveys that provided the basis for setting provision, quality and accessibility standards.

The Braintree Green Spaces Strategy forms part of the evidence base for future green space planning policies in the Local Development Framework and will influence future management and maintenance plans for green spaces that will be produced by the Council. The Strategy also feeds into the Draft Open Space Supplementary Planning Document, which has been published for consultation.

The adopted version, incorporating amendments, can be viewed by following the link below: 

- Braintree Green Spaces Strategy


- Site Location Maps (Appendix 5 of the Open Space Audit 2006 document that comprises Appendix 1 of the Braintree Green Spaces Strategy Document above).  Due to the number of maps and the overall file size, this appendix is broken down below (by ward):

- Black Notley and Terling
- Bocking Blackwater
- Bocking North
- Bocking South
- Bradwell Silver End and Rivenhall
- Braintree Central
- Braintree East
- Braintree South
- Bumpstead
- Coggeshall and North Feering
- Cressing and Stisted
- Gosfield and Greenstead Green
- Great Notley and Braintree West
- Halstead St Andrews
- Halstead Trinity
- Hatfield Peverel
- Hedingham and Maplestead
- Kelvedon
- Panfield
- Rayne
- Stour Valley North
- Stour Valley South
- The Three Colnes
- Three Fields
- Upper Colne
- Witham Chipping Hill and Central
- Witham North
- Witham South
- Witham West
- Yeldham