Next Meeting

Cressing Action Group

 – Annual General Meeting – 

Thursday 21 August 2025 at 7:30pm

Venue – St Barnabas Hall, Claude Ince Road, Tye Green, CM77 8HL

Unless residents in Cressing Parish attend this meeting and are prepared to elect new Officers and Committee members, the Action Group that has campaigned against speculative housing developments for the past 6 years will be dissolved.

The threat of more speculative development is very real.  Most local landowners are keen to sell to developers – see the Call for Sites map on Braintree District Council’s website.  Whilst the Council’s Local Plan Sub-Committee has rejected most of the sites proposed by landowners there remains a huge development proposal extending beyond Cressing into Bradwell, Stisted  and Pattiswick which will not be examined by the Council’s Committee until October.

The new Local Plan is unlikely to be completed until late in 2026, leaving speculative developers able to submit Applications which will most likely be rejected by Braintree District Council, but which may well be approved by the Planning Inspectorate on Appeal. 

Residents of Cressing Parish who feel that there should be local representation in addition to that from the Parish Council, should attend the Action Group’s AGM at 7:30pm next Thursday 21 August at St Barnabas when they can elect a new Committee.  The alternative is to use the meeting to debate and propose a new body to represent them.

Cressing Action Group Committee,  14 August 2025

Thanks to all who attended and contributed to the cakes either by making or purchasing.

The next open meeting will be at Cressing Sports and Social Club, Jeffrey's Road on the 8th October at 7.30pm

It is important for the future of the village that you attend and get involved. Please come along and support the group.

There will be cakes and banners and car stickers available to buy/donate to help raise some funds

######There will be a QUIZ EVENING at the Cressing Sports and Social Club to raise funds for CAG - look out for details here.######

Previous Meetings:

Thanks again to all who turned up and supported the group, made donations, took letters to send, posters to post and leaflets on Tuesday  September 10th at 6.30pm at Cressing sports and social club, Jeffrey's Road.

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Thanks to all who turned up for the meeting last night - 21st August. your help and support is much appreciated. In particular the help with leaflet delivery and poster planting.

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A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came along to the meeting this evening - 7th August

There were some people who offered to start a core group who will be meeting up next week to come up with some ideas and actions that everyone can do.

Also new posters that can be used around the village.