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.

Adoption

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.

We held a referendum on the Broomfield Neighbourhood Plan on 27 February 2025. The result was that a majority of voters were in favour of using the neighbourhood plan for Broomfield to help decide planning applications in the neighbourhood area.

The plan was made (or adopted) on 3 March 2025.

You can:

• download the Bromfield Neighbourhood Plan
• read the Broomfield Adoption Statement
• visit the Broomfield Parish Council website

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)

Referendum documents

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

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: