The sun shone for dozens of Littlebury, Littlebury Green and Catmere End parishioners as they arrived to collect their copy of the Littlebury Parish Plan at its launch and enjoy a social occasion at the Queen’s Head. 

The illustrated Plan deals with various topics of village life including transport, traffic, housing, leisure, personal and community safety, planning and development, the environment and leisure. The product of a year’s work by volunteers from all over the parish, it examines how we see our villages, identifies areas for improvement and will be, as Sir Alan Haselhurst, MP, attending, suggested, the foundation stone for action.

Sir Alan congratulated the Steering Group for the work that had been put into the Plan on behalf of the parish and noted that the Parish Council would be the envy of both District Councillors and Members of Parliament since 76% of respondents to the plan questionnaire said that they understood what their Parish Council did and who their councillors were, 79% believing that their views were represented fairly. He added that Littlebury parish was in many ways a microcosm of Uttlesford as a whole, its issues and concerns reflecting that of the district, the disparate geography of which is composed of many villages.