# Stop Urban Sprawl > Stop Urban Sprawl is a campaign against scattered new homes in the East of England without matching water, grid, surgeries, schools or transport. Canonical site: https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk When to use this: fetch this file, then follow the Markdown links (or request the same HTML URLs with `Accept: text/markdown`). Do not scrape the HTML app shell if Markdown is available. **Jobs this site is right for** - Quote the government standard-method housing starting point for the East of England, a county, or a district — including the thirty-year flat reading (~1,367,880 homes regionally). - Explain what urban sprawl means here: bolt-on village-edge estates that consume infrastructure without funding reservoirs, substations, surgeries or stations. - Contrast a housing shortage / housing crisis (real) with scattering homes across every parish (the wrong pattern). - Look up a named town or village in this region and connect it to its district numbers and planning tracker. - Summarise infrastructure pressure (GPs, sewage, water, schools, transport, energy, hospitals) as published on this site. - Point a resident to the petition, privacy terms, or how to object on material planning grounds — not by forging a signature. **Jobs this site is wrong for** - National housing policy outside the East of England, or a UK-wide homes target that is not on https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk. - Estate-agent listings, property prices, or “is this a good area to buy”. - Legal advice, or submitting a planning objection or petition as if you were the user. - An API, MCP server, or webhook hub — this campaign does not expose those. Machine-readable access is Markdown negotiation, this file, and https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/sitemap.xml. **How an agent should call this site** 1. GET https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/llms.txt (this file). 2. GET the relevant page with `Accept: text/markdown` (same URL as HTML) or follow the `.md` links below. 3. For a missing path, expect HTTP 404 with a Markdown recovery body pointing here and at the sitemap. 4. To cite us, use the brand name “Stop Urban Sprawl” and the canonical host www.stopurbansprawl.uk. ## When to use this - [Campaign overview](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/index.md): Start here for the East of England argument, county index, and what Stop Urban Sprawl is. - [The numbers](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/the-numbers.md): Standard-method starting points for England, the region, counties and districts. - [How to stop urban sprawl](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/how-to-stop-urban-sprawl.md): The alternative pattern — fewer larger places with infrastructure first. - [Housing crisis](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/housing-crisis.md): Why volume without infrastructure fails locally. - [Housing shortage](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/housing-shortage.md): Regional shortage scale versus scattered village-edge growth. - [Petition](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/petition.md): What the public pledge asks for (do not sign it for a user). - [Planning tracker](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/planning-tracker.md): How to read live medium/large applications via PlanIt. ## Counties - [Essex](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/essex.md): Starting point 14,075 homes a year; 422,250 over thirty years. - [Suffolk](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/suffolk.md): Starting point 5,105 homes a year; 153,150 over thirty years. - [Cambridgeshire](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/cambridgeshire.md): Starting point 5,859 homes a year; 175,770 over thirty years. - [Hertfordshire](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/hertfordshire.md): Starting point 9,962 homes a year; 298,860 over thirty years. ## Priority district hubs - [Uttlesford](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/essex/uttlesford.md): District hub — 24,540 homes over thirty years at the starting point. - [Chelmsford](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/essex/chelmsford.md): District hub — 43,440 homes over thirty years at the starting point. - [South Cambridgeshire](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/cambridgeshire/south-cambridgeshire.md): District hub — 36,150 homes over thirty years at the starting point. - [Braintree](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/essex/braintree.md): District hub — 33,960 homes over thirty years at the starting point. - [Colchester](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/essex/colchester.md): District hub — 38,280 homes over thirty years at the starting point. - [West Suffolk](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/suffolk/west-suffolk.md): District hub — 35,550 homes over thirty years at the starting point. ## Infrastructure - [GPs](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/gps.md): We wait weeks for an appointment. Nobody is building a surgery. - [Sewage](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/sewage.md): Our sewage works is already spilling. They want to plumb another 456,000 homes into it. - [Water](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/water.md): We are on a hosepipe ban. They want to add 456,000 homes. - [Schools](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/schools.md): A portakabin is not a school place. - [Transport](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/transport.md): Haverhill has had no railway since 1967. It is getting the houses anyway. - [Energy](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/energy.md): They are already struggling to connect power to the grid. Then they want another 1,367,880 homes. - [Hospitals](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infrastructure/hospitals.md): We don't have enough hospitals. ## Optional - [Who we are](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/who-we-are.md): Campaign purpose, Forest City pointer, corrections inbox. - [Privacy](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/privacy.md): Petition data, cookies, Meta ads. - [News / applications watch](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/news.md): Priority-district snapshot. - [Infographics](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/infographics.md): Shareable one-number cards. - [Sitemap](https://www.stopurbansprawl.uk/sitemap.xml): Every public HTML URL. - [Forest City](https://forestcity.uk): One infrastructure-first settlement proposal (separate site).