A BID to bring 35 new homes to a villages has been unanimously rejected by council bosses.

Developers Rainier Developments Limited have had their bid to bring homes to Cressing turned down.

Braintree Council's Planning Committee met to discuses the plans to build the homes on land east of Braintree Road.

If approved, the developers would have build a mix of 35 one-bed, two-bed, three-bed and four-bed bungalows, terrace, semi-detached and detached houses.

According to the council, 40 per cent would have been allocated as affordable housing.

There would have also been a single access point off Braintree Road, B1018.

However, the outline application came to a screeching halt after Braintree Council planners unanimously agreed to turn down the application.

The bid has previously been recommended for refusal by a planning report and opposed by Cressing Parish Council in "the strongest terms."

Issues highlighted by the council included the site being outside any settlement boundary and encroachment on the countryside.

Councillor James Abbott said: "I welcome the officers report.

"The staring point is obviously the local plan and its not allocated in either the current local plan or the proposed new one but also the Cressing Parish neighbourhood plan, its contrary to that.

"A huge amount of works goes into neighbourhood plans, I know how much work the community put into it, so its good to see on this occasion that the council is saying 'yeah, we agree with the neighbourhood plan'.

"Basically, Cressing-Tye Green risks being absorbed into Braintree if these developments keep occurring.

"I don't think any village in the entire district has come under the intense development pressure that Cressing-Tye Green has and it is a failure of the planning system both in this council and nationally that this has been allowed to happen.

"We're already looking at 700 houses. If all of them were given consent, we'd be at well over 1,000.

"Crossing the B1018 by foot is dangerous, it certainly is, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Yo take your life into your hands trying to cross that road."