A120 Consultation

Essex County Council is consulting on proposed routes for extending the dual carriageway section of the A120 from Braintree to the A12. There is a consultation questionnaire online at: www.a120essex.co.uk    The-Coggeshall-Society-Response-to-A120-consultation

Objections to the Rivenhall Incinerator

A campaign is underway to object to plans for the proposed incinerator on the old Rivenhall Airfield site. If you wish to object you can find out more by searching online for “Stop the Rivenhall Incinerator”

COGGESHALL NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN

Coggeshall is developing a Neighbourhood Plan which will help shape the future growth of the town. This will give local people a chance to choose where they want new homes, shops and offices to be built, have their say on what those new buildings will look like and what infrastructure should be provided.  Find out more by visiting the Neighbourhood Plan Roadshow at the Village Hall on Saturday 26th November 10.00 to 3.00.

A Steering Group of local volunteers is helping to write the Plan, which will go out to public consultation as it evolves over the next two years. If you would like to see some of the work that has been done so far please click on the ‘Coggeshall Neighbourhood Plan’ menu at the top of this page or visit the website www.coggeshall-np.com.

BOOKS

Two books have been produced on the historic market town of Coggeshall, and would make ideal presents for your friends and family.

‘Discovering Coggeshall – Timber-framed buildings  in the town centre’ is available from the Post Office, newsagent and The Norman sweet shop in Coggeshall, price £7.  The book is a street by street guide to the main timber-framed buildings in the town.

A second book ‘Discovering Coggeshall 2’ is now available from: Margaret Gibson (margotgibbo@hotmail.co.uk), or John Lewis, Lynetts, Coggeshall or Red Lion Books, Colchester.  Price £15.   ISBN 978-0-9539165-2-8                               This is the final volume of the Discovering Coggeshall project and has chapters on the development of the town, who lived where in 1575 and what they did for a living, the wool trade, the layout of the town and the carpentry of the buildings.  230 pages with many coloured maps, photos and illustrations 

This is the website of The Coggeshall Society, which was established to stimulate an interest in conservation and planning for the parish of Coggeshall.

In 2010 the Society began a community project – Discovering Coggeshall, to establish accurate dates for the timber-framed buildings in the centre of the town in order to trace how Coggeshall developed over the centuries.

The website will be of interest to anyone interested in the history and development of Coggeshall.