Consultation on Broomfield Neighbourhood Plan

Parish-tier councils, or other organisations, can take the lead in creating neighbourhood development plans, community plans and orders for planning in their area. We will help to create the plans, and make decisions at key stages.

Referendum

The Broomfield Neighbourhood Plan has been developed by Broomfield Parish Council.

It covers the whole of the parish, and includes planning policies on the environment, village character, development, and open space.

The draft Broomfield Neighbourhood Plan will proceed to a local referendum within the Neighbourhood Area. This follows an independent examination carried out by written comments.

We will hold the referendum on Thursday 27 February 2025. You can view our Upcoming Elections page to find out more about the referendum and how you can vote in it.

We will announce the result of the referendum on Friday 28 February 2025. If the majority of people who vote in the referendum support the draft Plan, we will adopt it and it will become part of Chelmsford’s Local Plan.

Referendum documents

We have published the following documents as part of the referendum information:

You can also view the documents at:

• Customer Service Centre, Civic Centre, Duke Street, Chelmsford, CM1 1JE (Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm)
• Broomfield Parish Council, 158 Main Road, Broomfield, Chelmsford
  CM1 7AH (you should contact the Parish Council on 01245 441660 for opening times)

Responses to consultation

Although consultation on the draft Neighbourhood Plan has now closed, you can still view the comments we received to the consultation on our Consultation Portal.

You can read our guide on how to view comments.

Examination

We appointed Andrew Ashcroft as the Independent Examiner to examine the Broomfield Neighbourhood Plan. 

We have published all correspondence relating to the Independent Examination on this page.

Submission documents

There are also some evidence documents which provide helpful background information, and which were used to inform the draft Neighbourhood Plan: