The Emergency Services have plans in place to deal with major emergencies of every conceivable type. In an emergency these are the trained personnel with the key facilities and equipment, so all other organisations and their plans are subordinate to them. Uttlesford also have plans in place to mobilise their resources in support of the emergency services and we are a part of those plans. The district is split into smaller areas and we are in sub-district 3 with its headquarters in Stansted. Each Parish Council has produced and maintains a plan of its own that links into all the others via periodic meetings and exchange of documents. Our plan has now been produced in PDF format so that it can be accessed via the Internet to avoid the printing and distribution of potentially huge stacks of paper.

Our Emergency Plan was initially produced by Cllr Mike Holmes and to do it he had access to the plans of many neighboring council’s and Uttlesford’s guidance documents. I now have up to date versions of many of them plus many more remote councils who have already published their work on the Internet.

However much we compare notes however our planning will always be based on speculation and guesswork but we are determined to be as ready as we possibly can be, but we fully expect to be confronted by things we have not foreseen.

The button below will download the emergency plan as a PDF document, its fairly large so a broadband connection is advisable. The key software is Adobe Acrobat Reader which is free and accessible via the link on the Home page.