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Proposal for Housing Development

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LAND EAST OF SOUTHGATES (SITE) SHELLOW ROAD, ONGAR, ESSEX, CM5 0SS

Registered Office: 75 Springfield Road, , Essex CM2 6JB. Company No: 9118078 RIBA

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Supporting Information defining Shellow Bowells as a Village Public Information Overview

Following discussions with the local authority we have put together supporting information to demonstrate that Shellow Bowells is defined as a village. As stated in the NPPF, Paragraph 89; A local planning authority should regard the construction of new buildings as inappropriate in Green Belt. Exceptions to this are: limited infilling in villages. The information shown below is taken from a range of public sources which have been selected to demonstrate that Shellow Bowells is a village and a former .

Google maps image showing Shellow Bowells.

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1. Wikipedia Shellow Bowells (or occasionally misspelt as Shellow Bowels) is a village and former civil parish in the District of Essex, . It is situated 6 miles (10 km) to the west of Chelmsford, between the villages of Willingale on its westerly border and Roxwell on its east. The population of the village is included in Willingale. Since 1946 the village has been part of the civil parish of Willingale. The village name is believed[by whom?] to be derived from Shellow, meaning a bend in the river, and the Beaulieu family. The village church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, is no longer in use as such, having become a private dwelling. Shellow Bowells is mentioned by Bill Bryson in Notes From A Small Island and Paul Theroux's The Kingdom By The Sea.[citation needed] It is referred to as Shallow Bowells in Part Five of Random Harvest by James Hilton.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellow_Bowells

2. A Vision of Britain Through Time In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shellow Bowells like this: SHELLOW-BOWELLS, a parish in Ongar district, Essex; 5 miles NE of Ongar r. station. Post town, Ongar, under Brentwood. Acres, 457. Real property, £649. Pop., 110. Houses, 23. The manor belongs to W. T. Bramston, Esq. The living is a rectory, annexed to Willingale-Doe, in the diocese of Rochester. The church is a brick building. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6898

3. White's Directory of Essex 1848

SHELLOW-BOWELLS, a small parish and village, 6½ miles West by North of Chelmsford, has only 134 souls, and 457 acres of land, belonging to T. W. Bramston, Esq., the lord of the manor. It was anciently called Schelowe, and had the latter part of its name from the Bowel or Bowles family.

The Church (St. Peter and St. Paul,) was rebuilt in 1752. and is a small brick fabric, with a wooden belfry. The rectory is consolidated with that of Willingale-Doe. The small parsonage-house is let as a cottage, and the tithes were commuted in 1840 for £120 per annum.

The Farmers are Joseph William Lucking, Hall; and William Gardener, Cross.

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St Peter and St Paul's Church, Shellow Bowells (now converted to a house). http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/placeS/essexs07a.html

4. Historical Description Shellow Bowells (formerly Shellow Boville), a village and a parish in Essex, 6 miles NE of Ongar station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order office, Willingale Doe; telegraph office, Boxwell-Chelmsford. Acreage, 469; population, 107. The manor belongs to the Bramston family. The living is a rectory, annexed to Willingale Doe, in the diocese of St. Albans. The church is a brick building, erected in 1754, consisting of chancel and nave, in good repair, with wooden belfry. https://ukga.org/england/Essex/towns/ShellowBowells.html

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Conclusion

It is important for local authorities to safeguard rural communities and the development of this site within the village of Shellow Bowells will assist in this strategy in line with both local and national policy. It is understood that the information above is mainly historical and that Shellow Bowells is now part of Willingale Parish. However there is nothing to suggest that its status as a village should be diminished. Shellow Bowells contains numerous listed buildings that have been identified to be worthy of protection by Historic England. It should therefore stand that the retention of these buildings continue to support its status, both past and present, as a village.

The applicant respectfully requests the Local Planning Authority support this application.

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