Uttlesford District Council Offices, Saffron Walden. - Credit: Will Durrant Almost 300 sites in Uttlesford have been submitted to be considered for future housing or business development. Uttlesford District Council put out a "call for sites" earlier this year to see where landowners, and parish and town councils thought new builds should go. There were 299 sites submitted which the council could decide to put in a new Local Plan - a policy used to decide which land should be used for future housing, business and industrial development. A first draft of the Local Plan is expected in early 2022. Several large sites feature on the list, but no decision has been made as to which sites will be selected.