Development plan updates
Local Plan Sub-Committee
Recent/forthcoming scheduled Local Plan Sub-Committee dates:
Neighbourhood Plans
- Bradwell with Pattiswick Parish Council submitted a revised plan under Regulation 15 on 7th April 2025
- Bures Hamlet and Bures St Mary Neighbourhood Plan Bures Hamlet Parish Council submitted a plan under Regulation 15 submission on 15th March 2025.
- The Steeple Bumpstead Neighbourhood Plan was adopted by Council on 2nd June 2025.
- Gosfield Parish Council are undertaking a Regulation 14 Consultation of the Draft Neighbourhood Plan. The consultation ended on 3rd January 2025.
- Earls Colne Neighbourhood Plan was adopted by Council on 21st July 2025.
- Stisted Parish Council submitted a plan under Regulation 15 on 13th February 2025.
- Hatfield Peverel Neighbourhood Plan Review - The Hatfield Peverel Neighbourhood Plan Review document was adopted on 23rd September 2024.
- All Neighbourhood Plans
Braintree District’s Local Plan 2013-2033 - Review
We have started work on a Local Plan Review. A call for sites has been undertaken and officers are engaging on requirements going for the future and reviewing and commissioning evidence base documents as need has been identified. In September 2024, following the announcement of the government's proposed planning reforms a new timetable was agreed.
An interactive map containing the sites submitted to us during the original for consideration was published on 7th August 2024. The submission deadline was then extended to 16th October 2024. These additional sites have also been published.
A technical consultation on the Local Plan Review Sustainability Appraisal (SA) Scoping Report ended on 9th October 2024. The document and further details are still available to view on our consultation page.
Issues and Options consultation took place between 20th January and 7th March 2025.
Conservation Area Appraisals
The draft Silver End Conservation Area Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan has been published for consultation which ended at 5pm on 4th November. A drop-in session for residents was held on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 from 13:00 until 19:00 at Silver End Village Hall, Broadway, Silver End, CM8 3RQ. This event was open for all to attend to find out more and ask any questions.
Recently reviewed
The revised Braintree Town Centre Conservation Area - Adopted 3rd August 2023
The revised Bradford Street Conservation Area - Adopted 3rd August 2023
Section 69 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 places a duty on local planning authorities to review their conservation areas from ‘time to time’. The purpose of the Conservation Area Appraisal is to provide an analysis of the conservation area which will inform future development and design with regard to the sensitivities of the Historic Environment and its unique character.
The next conservation areas to be reviewed is anticipated to be Halstead.
Statement of Community Involvement (SCI)
The SCI explains how we will involve local people in planning - setting out who and how we will engage residents and stakeholders. This includes public consultation of the Local Plan, Neighbourhood Plan and Supplementary Planning Documents, making comments on planning applications and how we will assist Neighbourhood Planning areas or forums.
Consultation on the latest revision of the document ran between 23rd August and 5pm Thursday 10th October 2024.
The revised SCI was adopted at Local Plan Sub-committee on 31st October 2024
Consultation Portal
Updated July 2025
