Wethersfield
Wethersfield airfield: CPRE Essex position statement
Friday 18 February 2022
The future of the former airfield at RAF Wethersfield, near Braintree, has been the subject of some considerable conjecture. It was three years ago that Homes England and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation floated the idea of developing almost 5,000 houses at the site, but that has been superseded by a proposal from the Ministry of […] Read more >
Airfield could be hosting almost 5,000 homes
Monday 25 February 2019
North Essex, already facing the threat of three proposed “garden communities”, has a new mass development to consider: almost 5,000 new homes on the former airfield at RAF Wethersfield. While the proposals for the garden communities – at West Tey (24,000 homes), West of Braintree (13,000) and East of Colchester (9,000) – are struggling to […] Read more >