Local Plan - Additional Consultation Alert

5/11/2016

Possibly more Housing around Billericay

Basildon Borough Council is consulting on developers’ proposals for building on more Green Belt land around Billericay and elsewhere claiming it needs to determine if these new locations, or alternative proposals, offer better opportunities to help meet the Borough’s housing targets. The Billericay sites are:-
New Site 1 – This is proposed as a north eastward extension to H 27 (The Southend Rd site). The developer has not stated any number of homes: the area would appear to support around 300 additional homes. No access plan.
New Site 2 – This new site (Foots Farm, behind St Peters School ending at the Guildprime Business Centre) is proposed for 150 additional homes. Road access from Southend Rd.
New Site 3 – This new site (behind Maitland Lodge, Southend Rd) is proposed for 44 new homes. Road access from Southend Rd.
New Site 5 – This is proposed as an extension to H 21 (South of London Road at Greenleas Farm) adding 115 new houses to the 180 in the draft Local Plan. Provides the start of the proposed SW Relief Road with a junction at London Rd and access to the site.
Alternative Site 4 – This revives consideration of the area previously rejected site (known as PADC14), between Outwood Common Road and Outwood Farm Road, to provide 430 new houses. In the draft Local Plan this is a Landscape Protection Area. Road access from Outwood Common &/or Outwood Farm Roads.
Alternative Site 9 – This proposal extends H 23 (Land East of Frithwood Lane) to accommodate an additional 195 new houses on the expanded site that was originally for 330. Further expansion is offered to fund infrastructure (primarily the Relief Road). Road access by means of SW Relief Road on to Laindon Road.
Alternative Site 10 - This proposal extends H 24 (Land South of Windmill Heights) to accommodate an additional 100 new houses on the expanded site that was originally for 70. Road access from the A 176 or Kennel Lane.
This means we face potentially 1334 extra new homes, almost all on Green Belt,
in addition to the 1740 already in the draft Local Plan.
Furthermore there is no additional transport infrastructure mentioned in any document.
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This consultation which ends on 15th December 2016 is limited in scope. Comments will only be welcomed on the seventeen new/alternative sites being promoted (across the Borough) . Representations on these proposals, and also on the cumulative impact of the proposals alongside other proposals set out in the Draft Local Plan would be accepted. New representations on the Draft Local Plan or proposals contained within it however, will not be accepted, and would be classified as inadmissible.
BAG’s interpretation of these constraints is that residents will need to link any criticism of Infrastructure provision to the cumulative impact of the additional housing now being considered.
All comments must be submitted using the downloadable consultation response form available from http://www.basildon.gov.uk/article/6092/Public-Consultation---Local-Plan-New-and-Alternative-Sites
The completed form can be completed on line or returned as an email attachment to [email protected]

5 Comments

Debbie Dunning

5/11/2016 14:47:58

Thank you for notifying us of this. Having previously been a Governor at a local primary school, I am fully aware that the schools are already oversubscribed. Some have literally been forced to add another full class to existing year groups. Unless the Council add infrastructure to these ridiculous plans there will be so many children without school places. And obviously this will apply to everything, Dr's surgeries, hospitals, Billericay Station. I will put in my complaint but I feel they will do whatever they want anyway unfortunately. Thank you though for putting this all together for us.

Mr p wiley

6/11/2016 07:57:53

This again is an ill thought out plan.greenbelt should be what it was set up as,"The lungs of London"It seems commercial greed will oppose itself over the will of the residents of these areas.No thought of the increased traffic,effect on schools,doctors,hospitals,or the way of living of the people effected.These houses are from"Outsiders "not the local residents children, and are for Londoners,who have been bribed to move out of the City,and suburbs. The local Councillors, elected by us should resist not roll over and play dead.

Viv Parker

6/11/2016 09:03:56

We live close to Quilters and found that our child didn't get a place as too many siblings in area. How is the school situation going to be addressed? Billericay does not need this volume of building and certainly cannot cope with more people/ traffic .

Mrs Frances Vanner

6/11/2016 21:03:47

Green belt land should not be built on, this land is precious, it has taken hundreds of years to grow and once it is covered in concrete we will never get it back. There is enough places to build without touching this land it is just more difficult and expensive for the developers. Billericay is comparatively a small town and cannot accommodate the infrastructure hundreds of houses would need, the traffic now is very heavy, the station nearly comes to a stand still sometimes, the schools are full and it is nearly impossible to get a doctors appointment. etc., etc.,

Graham P Moat

15/10/2017 19:11:24

This posting is now nearly a year old. From a number of postings made on the Save Billericay from Housing Developments Facebook and articles in the Basildon Borough Diary publication there have been significant changes to the proposed plan. Is BAG fully active and abreast of these developments?

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Aims of BAG

To protect the Green Belt around Billericay and elsewhere in Basildon Borough from loss through excessive and unjustified development.

To prevent the character of our historic towns from being changed forever.

To ensure that any development that does take place is sustainable, with adequate infrastructure and prioritises local needs.

We support the need for a new Basildon Local Plan and the need for more housing. But it must be of the right number, the right type and in the right places to best help local people obtain a home of their own.

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