Paul Salvage sent this as the work of a group working with him, the total is a little light as it ignores small developments. Another figure gives 1080 from the Elsenham News magazine but this is a little high as it includes two copies each to businesses. The final figure will thus be somewhere between the two.

The problem this highlights is with current trends of two car families where one is often a 4X4 off-road monster for the school run its an awful lot of cars for a village which has its roots in horses and carts.

Geof

MAJOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS IN ELSENHAM

There are now approximately 950 dwellings in Elsenham.

Listed below are the major housing developments since the 1960s.

Post 1993	25	Corriander Drive, Alsa Leys expansion, Saunders Close
1993	82	Rush Lane Leigh Drive
1981-1991	98	Hunters Court Maytree Drive The Croft Spencers Close Hailes Wood Close Paget Court Gold Close
1976-1979	258	Alsa Leighs Cranmore Close Glebe End Hailes Wood Jenkins Drive Markwells Oziers Fourways De Mandeville
1961-1969	138	Alsa Gardens Elm Close Broom Farm Ridley Gardens.
Total	601

This table ignores small scale development of under 5 dwellings and also the splitting of the Elsenham Hall estate into 21 dwellings.