THE FOUR FIRSTS CHARTER

7/7/2019

Today the Billericay District Residents' Association (BDRA) launches The Four Firsts Charter as explained and set out below.

The BDRA and BAG will use these principles going forward in everything we do relative to the Basildon Local Plan. It will shape our thinking and actions as we strive to get the best outcome for Billericay; during the impending Examination in Public and further out if and when a Local Plan is finally adopted.

We will also take this approach into the informal design and planning consultation for south-west Billericay with the developer's consultants on Thursday 11 July. But we will be making it very clear from the outset that we consider the submitted Local Plan to be unsound on many levels and that we are not accepting or endorsing any housing numbers, sites or infrastructure ahead of the formal Examination in Public.

We encourage other representative bodies invited to the consultation to adopt this approach and similar principles. To accept any element of the Local Plan at this stage would be inappropriate and premature. It remains a bad plan for Billericay.

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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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Information on the Local Plan

The latest summary position on the long history of the Basildon Local Plan can be found here;
Current Situation

Historical items from the 2022 withdrawn Local Plan can be found here;
2014 to 2034 Withdrawn Plan Archive