Basildon council will launch a third and final public consultation on the Local Plan on the 28 November, running for 7 weeks to 16 January 2026.
You can register for, and take part in, the consultation here;
basildonlocalplan25.commonplace.is/
This will be our last chance to comment on the content of the Basildon Local Plan before the council produces a final version for submission to the Government for examination. They hope to have the Local Plan adopted by the end of next year.
We urge every resident right across the borough to get involved and have their say.
The scale of housing growth, and therefore the population increase, is unsustainable. It will put huge pressure on our roads, schools, doctors, dentists and hospitals. There will be around 65,000 extra people looking for services that are all ready over capacity. That number of people is equivalent to that of Billericay and Wickford today.
You can register for, and take part in, the consultation here;
basildonlocalplan25.commonplace.is/
This will be our last chance to comment on the content of the Basildon Local Plan before the council produces a final version for submission to the Government for examination. They hope to have the Local Plan adopted by the end of next year.
We urge every resident right across the borough to get involved and have their say.
The scale of housing growth, and therefore the population increase, is unsustainable. It will put huge pressure on our roads, schools, doctors, dentists and hospitals. There will be around 65,000 extra people looking for services that are all ready over capacity. That number of people is equivalent to that of Billericay and Wickford today.
Below is the Policies Map that the council is proposing. This is a key part of the Local Plan, showing where development can, and can't, take place in the future.
The purple areas are where development will be allowed to take place. If adopted, it will totally redraw the Green Belt as we know it today. Huge swathes of open and productive farmland will be lost. This is not pre-developed, unused or scrubby wasteland, as some seem think.
The Local Plan is proposing to deliver over 28,000 new houses over the period 2023 to 2043, of which more that 20,000 will be on the Green Belt. Our view is that the purple areas on the map will be able to deliver considerably more than that already alarming and unnecessary number, and the council will have little ability to limit development if they release that scale of land now, Local Plan or not. Landowners and developers will have a field day!
The future will be very uncertain.
The purple areas are where development will be allowed to take place. If adopted, it will totally redraw the Green Belt as we know it today. Huge swathes of open and productive farmland will be lost. This is not pre-developed, unused or scrubby wasteland, as some seem think.
The Local Plan is proposing to deliver over 28,000 new houses over the period 2023 to 2043, of which more that 20,000 will be on the Green Belt. Our view is that the purple areas on the map will be able to deliver considerably more than that already alarming and unnecessary number, and the council will have little ability to limit development if they release that scale of land now, Local Plan or not. Landowners and developers will have a field day!
The future will be very uncertain.
