Campaigners have launched a petition against a scheme to build up to 15,000 homes between Braintree and Colchester.

The Gateway 120 group plans to create a new village on land west of Marks Tey, with a further 4,000 homes on land east of Braintree.

Pressure group Campaign Against Urban Sprawl in Essex (Cause) has collected more than 270 signatures with an online petition in just over two weeks.

The petition can be viewed at ipetitions.com/petition/stop-west-teynew-town.

See this week's Braintree and Witham Times for the full story.