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of England Plan & Up Dates
1st April 2010 East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) is no more:
The East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) that developed the 'East of England Plan' was dissolved on the 31 March 2010 and no longer functions as an organisation. From 1st April 2010, much of EERA's work will be taken forward by a new organisation called the East of England Local Goverment Association - www.eelga.gov.uk
NEW -9th December 2009 Theydon Bois Rural Preservation Society East of England Plan > 2031 Response:
The Society has attended the recent East of England Regional Assembly (ERRA) consultation meetings (as noted below) on the extension of The East of England Plan to 2031. We managed to successfully challenge a number of the worst proposals for our district that were in the original of ‘The Plan’ that was finally published in May 2008. Again the Society is unhappy with the scenario’s in this proposed extension to ‘The Plan’ as they do not offer sufficient protection for the Green Belt around our village and the amount of housing growth that is suggested is environmentally unsustainable. We made detailed answers to the consultation questionnaire before the closing date and a copy the Society's response can now be found as a Word Document here.
NEW - 4th September 2009: 2031 Plan - 'East of England Plan > 2031 Scenarios for Housing and Economic Growth'
Villagers will probably remember the East of England Plan of a few years back (see below) and the concerns over what effect extensive housing development (478,000 new homes in the East Anglia) would have on Theydon Bois and the surrounding countryside. Theydon Bois & District Rural Preservation Society were involved on the consultation process and submitted a detailed response to the proposals in March 2005. The final East of England Plan published in May 2008 contained a policy that requires EERA to commence an early focused review to be completed by 2011. The review requires the Plan to extend its coverage to 2031. For the review, EERA is testing the implications of a range of scenarios through a variety of models (e.g. Government's advice on housing, demography, economic, traffic, water supply) to assist in the development of options for the scale and distribution of growth up to 2031.
Members of Theydon Bois & District Rural Preservation Society together with Parish Council Chairman, Sue Jones attended a consultation meeting abou the 'East of England Plan > 2031 Scenarios for Housing and Economic Growth' in Chelmsford on the 3rd September 2009 and the related Plan document (it is a large document, with further related documents, but a ERRA has also published a a useful starting guide).
Epping Forest District does not come out too badly in most scenarios. An extra 3,200 homes between 2011 - 3031 (average 160 p/a) in scenarios 1 & 2, but Harlow would have to accommodate extensive growth in most scenarios that could effect our district also. Local Authorities have already made it clear that they do not believe it is possible to deliver on higher targets in scenarios 3 & 4.
The final options will evolve from the first public consultation programme around a number of scenarios for future growth. The public consultation runs from 2 September 2009 to 5.00 p.m. 24 November 2009. TB&DRPS is at present reviewing all the scenarios in the plan to see what effect it could have on our village and our surrounding Green Belt. They will then make a response before the closing date. Interested villagers who made individual responses to the previous plan may also wish to respond to the present proposals before the 24th November closing date. The Draft East of England Plan will then be published in early 2010 followed by a further consultation in March 2010 and an "Examination in Public" in the Summer. You can register to make a response to the plan here.
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This is the final published version of the plan - May 2008. There will be review that requires the Plan to extend its coverage to 2031.
 East of England Plan Final 2008 Version
East of England Plan (2005):
The
Theydon Bois & District Rural Preservation Society has been monitoring
the development of this plan. The consultation phase for the plan is now
open and we are considering our detailed response but believe that it
is important that as many people as possible submit a response before
the closing date on the 16th March 2005. A copy of the plan in pdf form
is available to download here and we have added a number of useful links
below to help you respond. We hope to up date this page with our views
as we work on our response. The first report is one to our committee made
by Peter Newton & Jim Watts who attended some of the first consultation
meetings.
 East of England Plan Draft Version
The file size is 2.7mb and download time
should be about 12 minutes on a 56k dial up and about 1 minute broadband.
We suggest you right click the link above or those below and select Save
As.
Non
Technical Summary of the Report of the Sustainability Appraisal
(pdf 189Kb) Report of the Sustainability Appraisal
Report
of the Sustainability Appraisal (pdf 1.3Mb)
Please make a response to this plan either on the EERA
web site or download the EERA Word document response
form to post here.
You may find that if you wish to make more general observations on the
plan that our own Word reply form is more user friendly. General
Reply Form.
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TB&DRPS Response to East of England
Plan:
Below is the 'Body Text' as entered in the EERA response forms by Chapter
& Policy number. Summaries and suggested changes to the plan on the
forms were drawn from this text. Submitted on 14th March 2005:
Representation on the East of England Plan
from Theydon Bois and District Rural Preservation Society.
Policies SS1 & SS10:
The notion that 478,000 homes and the creation of 421,000 new jobs are
needed in the South East of England is totally misguided. The South East
is already 'overheated' economically and the region's environment, natural
resources, character and quality of life are already showing adverse affects
as a result of the pressures this has brought. The scale of development
proposed will not be sustainable. The problems of social inclusion and
deprivation are "key issues" but these need to be focussed nationally.
There is a real need to encourage economic development in the North and
West of our country and these are the areas where any large-scale growth
should be planned. Here deprivation and social exclusion are still high
and there is a real need for new jobs and regeneration around urban centres.
If this fails to take place and further development is encouraged in the
South East the population drift to the this part of the country will continue
with disastrous environmental consequences for the South and further deterioration
in the North.
Policies E2 & ST2:
The figures of 421,500 new jobs for the region as a whole and 116,000
for Essex are totally unrealistic. The regional share of jobs would need
to increase from 12.5% to 21% to achieve this target. The details of how
this increase in new jobs will be achieved are not adequately explained
and the Bone Wells Associates analysis has largely been based on 'selective'
historic precedents which are not a safe guide to future trends.. They
are further contradicted by other studies. The Harlow area has lost 20,000
jobs in recent years.
If the proposed jobs do not materialise and the growth in dwellings is
allowed to proceed or has already taken place then the result will be
even greater amounts of commuting by road and rail on links that are already
over stretched. The job numbers for Essex are not based on need but on
the further growth areas, clearly a chicken and egg situation. Again such
growth areas need to be located further north where there is a real need
for further employment.
Policies SS13 & ST4:
The proposed 478,000 housing units are not justified, as realistic job
numbers do not support them as described in Policy E2. Such numbers would
not be sustainable and would severely impact unfavourably on the environment,
and quality of life in the region.
Although it is clear that some affordable homes are needed in the region,
these should only fulfil the needs of the region's present communities.
The large numbers proposed have been arrived at by a discredited 'predict
and provide' approach and an untried methodology. There is no indication
as to how 'affordable homes', even if in the first place built cheaply
using government owned land, will resist long-term market forces. The
proposals to extend 'the right to buy' or partial ownership to Housing
Association tenants would soon see house prices rising well above any
affordable levels for low-income families in the South East. Essex is
already 30% behind in its provision of affordable homes because of market
and other pressures.
123,000 new dwellings in Essex is excessive and represents an 18% increase
on current planned levels and is higher than other counties. The Epping
Forest District will see a 37.5% increase in proposed housing levels,
more than double all other areas excepting Maldon at 26.3%. This figure
is clearly in conflict with the other stated objects of the plan as in
SS1, SS4, SS7, SS9, ST2, Map 7.1 &ENV9. Of this number of dwellings
80% would have to be built in the Green Belt and the 2,700 to the South
& West of Harlow would be a 100% on Green Belt land.
If 6,000 houses are allocated to North Weald, currently only 1,800, using
the plans own definition of a similar number near Cambridge, it would
be considered a 'New Town'. These proposed developments would stretch
north as far as the M11, junction 7 and adjoin an expanded Harlow and
to the South West would also be less than 2 miles from Epping. This would
result in a virtually continuous built up area from the edge of Epping
Forest to the northern limits of the expanded Harlow, forming a massive
barrier in the London Arc. It would swamp the separate communities of
North Weald, Thornwood and Hastingwood and these would no longer then
have a separate identity.
With no proposed road improvements to the south of North Weald and no
improvements to rail infrastructure the narrow winding lanes that pass
through Coopersale, Theydon Bois, Fiddlers Hamlet etc. would become shortcuts
causing parking and traffic chaos in these villages and overloading the
Central line services at Epping and Theydon Bois. To stop such commuter
madness the North Weald development would need to be self sustaining with
the required number of jobs in place first, but nowhere is it stated that
in this specific location these jobs will precede the house building.
The almost certain result of a development on this scale at North Weald
will be that it will become a dormitory town for London Commuters.
The plan with regard to its proposals for the Epping Forest District should
be scaled back to a more realistic figure of 5,000 new dwellings. This
could be achieved by continuing the present rate of house building up
to 2021. This would also be more in keeping with house building levels
in other parts of Essex. It would also be less likely to breach the limit
of 60% of housing on Brownfield sites.
Policies SS6 & ST6:
It is already recognised that many of the strategic highway routes and
many more of Essex's local roads will be heavily congested by 2016 even
without further house building. Although the plan does propose a number
of transport improvements in Essex it is far from certain that these will
be delivered on time or ahead of housing provision. Strategic rail routes
have inadequate capacity and future rail investment at the level needed
seems unlikely. EERA at this present stage will not endorse their own
plan because the government will only commit to a quarter of the £1.5
Billion needed for the first three years of transport infrastructure alone.
None of this reduced allocation is designated for Essex. As previously
stated a lack of transport infrastructure will result in traffic chaos
and gridlock in the Epping Forest District and throughout Essex.
Policies SS12, ENV9 & ENV10:
The historic experience for Essex has been that in recent decades there
has been insufficient infrastructure with regard to Hospitals, Education,
Transport, Emergency Services, Water Supply and Waste Management etc.
A lack of skilled essential staff; Doctors, Nurses and Teachers etc further
exacerbate this. The Plan glosses over the detail of how this infrastructure
will be provided to meet the needs of a much-increased population. At
present there are insufficient Doctors, Teachers etc. in training to meet
current needs let alone the South East's increased needs under the plan.
Will the intention be to 'poach' these skilled people from other areas
leaving them deprived in this provision?
Key water infrastructure projects such as the Abberton Reservoir extension
have not yet received planning permission and even if approved will have
long lead times. Essex is the driest county in the country, already struggling
to meet current needs. It is vitally important that how the method of
supplying adequate sustainable water supplies that do not cause environmental
damage are to be met, is spelled out. The plan lacks all detail on how
this key provision is to be met.
With waste management the plan again (9.51) merely indicates that Local
Authorities will need to ensure their development plans, framework and
documents reflect the aims and policies of the plan, but it in no way
indicates how the Local Authorities will be able to achieve this. It does
though say "That failure in this respect will undermine the ability
of the region to achieve its aims".
Policy SS7:
Many parts of the plan seem to be in conflict with others and the Sustainability
study when it comes to the Green Belt. S.E.A. Chapter 14 states; "The
baseline shows that a number of aspects of the environment-area are already
seriously stressed by human impacts. Further development on any significant
scale is likely to have serious negative impacts on water resources, biodiversity,
tranquillity, air quality, recreational access and congestion. The larger
the volume of development the harder it will be to avoid increased flood
risk, erosion of the quality and distinctiveness of settlements, the built
environment and landscape".
The London Arc Green Belt is already suffering from these environmental
pressures with Epping Forest being particularly at risk from air pollution
caused by traffic congestion and its inability to maintain its biodiversity.
The level of development proposed for Epping Forest District will require
80% of the dwellings to be built on Green Belt land (note the North Weald
site is all Green Belt and not a mixture of Green Belt and Brownfield
as suggested) the proximity of all this development to the forest with
the resulting pollution would eventually result in its death.
The plan indicates that areas taken out of the Green Belt will be replaced
by including other areas in it. The major point of the Green Belt is its
permanence, which prevents further urban sprawl. The only way 'replacement'
could be achieved is by including areas on the perimeter, effectively
moving the Green Belt outwards. Along with permanence, the prevention
of the coalescence of settlements is another important function of the
Green Belt but this coalescing will certainly happen in the Epping Forest
District unless it is maintained in its present form. Tranquillity and
Quality of Life are other important functions and the removal of any Green
Belt from the inner London Arc will be to the detriment and chances of
sustainability of the remainder. A loss in the Quality of Life for all
those who at present access it is the certain result of the plan in its
present form.
Sustainability Study:
As mentioned above The Sustainability Appraisal Report (Based on the Non-Technical
Summary) is clearly at issue with the Plan in many places. It claims to
accept the stated aims of The Plan, which appear "as we are all against
sin and for a better life for all" but then at every stage it lists
at length the environmental factors that negate what The Plan sets out
to achieve.
A few quotations will suffice to underline this point.
P.22 A strong element of 'predict and provide' based on past trends and
projections appear to underpin the overall housing numbers and allocations.
P.22 The policies are likely to have significant negative effects on the
water resources of the region, particularly in the southern areas where
water availability is lowest and housing allocation is highest.
P.29 The SA/SAE states that it will be extremely difficult to implement
the RSS in a way that meets all its policy objectives because of the 'step-change'
in delivery of housing employment and infrastructure are called for in
the RSS.
Tables' 3.1h & 3.1i contain many items under the heading Problems
and Issues that if taken seriously would make it impossible to allocate
11,000 dwellings in the Epping Forest District. This is especially relevant
to the 6000 homes, plus 56 hectares for employment, directed to North
Weald. This is guaranteed to destroy all the environmental attributes
described in the report. These attributes are not just an accident of
history but are due to the adherence over many years to the principle
of the Green Belt - the very essence of which is its permanence.
Conclusion:
1. The Plan in its present form is deeply flawed and should be opposed.
2. The arguments for the proposed number of jobs are not well made and
not supported by other sources of research.
3. Further development in the South East should be discouraged, not encouraged.
Development other than for essential needs should be allocated in the
North and West where there is a real need for new jobs and regeneration
around urban centres and where there will be less environmental impact.
4. The housing numbers proposed are not sustainable and any increase in
the level of housing numbers should only be on the basis that the jobs
and infrastructure are in place first.
5. Essex and Epping Forest District are being required to take a disproportionate
proportion of the housing burden.
6. There is inadequate funding for transport infrastructure, which will
result in congestion and traffic chaos.
7. There is insufficient detail and analysis as to how other infrastructure
requirements will be met in the areas of Health Care, Education, Water
Supply and Waste Management etc.
8. Any change in the present boundaries of the Green Belt is unacceptable
and will cause uncontrollable environmental damage and a loss of The Quality
of Life for the regions population.
9. The Sustainability Appraisal Report (Based on the Non-Technical Summary)
contains some of the best arguments as to why The Plan is flawed and this
level of development should not be allowed to proceed.
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Preservation
Society & Parish Council Notice 1st March 2005:
Theydon Bois Parish Council & Rural Preservation
Society
Important Notice
East of England Plan Consultation Closing Date: 5pm,
16th March 2005
We strongly urge you to add your voice to this consultation. This plan
will affect us all.
The East of England plan is a strategy to guide development in the East
of England for at least the next 20 years. It has implications for housing,
economic development, the environment, transport, health care, the protection
of our countryside and our quality of life. The East of England Regional
Assembly devised the 'Plan' or Regional Spatial strategy, but they were
an appointed body, not one democratically elected by us.
Theydon Bois Parish Council and District Rural Preservation Society has
severe reservations about the plan in its present form as we believe that
the excessive amount of housing development involved is not sustainable
and will have devastating effects on the environment and quality of our
own and our children's lives in the future. The 'Plan' is now in the consultation
phase and the closing date is the 16th March 2005. We think it is important
for as many individuals as possible to make their views about the plan
known, as every individual submission will count.
The plan and sustainability studies will be available at local libraries
or you can request your own free copy by phoning EERA at the number below*,
but it is a 300page document. You can if you wish download and respond
to the plan by chapter on the EERA web site at: www.eera.gov.uk or you can visit the Theydon Bois Village Web Site; www.theydon.org.uk
where the Preservation Society has copies of the plan for downloading
together with further information and many useful links and addresses.
The EERA reply form is also available, but as this does not make it clear
that you can make a general, rather than a detailed reply to the plan
proposals, you may prefer to use our Response Form to indicate if you agree with the plan and to make more general comments
on it. One is enclosed and further copies are available from the Parish
Council Office at the Village Hall and on the Village Web Site. Please
do not enclose this notice with your reply.
We believe that this plan should be opposed in its present form. Please
make your views known.
Some Key Issues for Essex and Epping Forest District
· The plan fails to show how sufficient new jobs will be
created in line with new houses. The statistics used are based on selected
periods in the past and are very suspect. It is suggested that 116,000
jobs will be created in Essex but where will these come from? Harlow has
lost 20,000 jobs in recent years!
· There will be significant negative impact on our environment,
sustainability and the quality of life in our district together with the
destruction of large parts of the Green Belt.
· The plan proposes more new homes than can be accommodated
in Essex.
· 'Affordable' home numbers in the plan are based on a partial
assessment using a discredited demographic 'predict and provide' approach
and untried methodology.
· While we would agree that some new 'affordable' homes
are an essential requirement for our own communities needs, there is no
indication as to how all these new builds will resist market forces. The
result will be immigration from other areas into our district with people
commuting to London bringing further negative environmental impact and
still no affordable new homes for our children.
· There are serious doubts about the delivery of the required
infrastructure, transport, health care, water supply etc. EERA will not
endorse their own plan at this stage because the government will only
commit to a quarter of the £1.5 Billion needed for the first three
years of transport infrastructure alone. None of this reduced amount of
money is designated for Essex.
· The 6,000 houses proposed at North Weald and 2,700 to
the South of Harlow with inadequate transport infrastructure will have
disastrous effects on traffic levels in Theydon Bois.
· Epping Forest District will see a 37.5% increase in proposed
housing levels more than double other all areas in Essex except Maldon
(26.3%).
Send your response to:
*EERA (RSS), Flempton House, Flempton, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6EG.
Tel: 01284 729443
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First TB&DPS Report - 12.01.05:
This was the report on the first East of England Plan
consultation meetings made to the committee of Theydon Bois & District
Preservation Society.
Report on EERA Meetings & Developments:
PN & JW attended both the EERA Consultation at Harlow on Thursday
6th January and The West Essex Forum Meeting (of E.C.C.) at North Weald
Golf Course on Tuesday 11th January and made the following reports:
EERA Consultation:
It was noted that a Group of 'Stop
Harlow North' protesters were allowed to demonstrate outside before the
meeting. The relevance of this is that they were very well organised and
clearly are a strong pressure group and there is a danger that EERA and
the Government may play one group off against another with the most powerful
groupings eventually reducing the amount of development in their area
at the expense of areas that have not protested or are less well organised.
We do not wish to be NIMBY about our response to the plan and should look
at its implications for the whole of Essex but we also cannot afford to
take the view that we are not badly affected and therefore do not need
to respond to this plan.
Despite the many questions (at the end) about EERA not being an elected
body and therefore undemocratic (which is the case) we thought there did
seem to be a proper attempt at consultation but this body is costing £3
Million a year or 55p for every person in the region and there are still
problems. One of the problems about the consultation is the size of the
East of England Plan (over 300 pages) and the fact that it is only available
to individual applications (a body can't order a number of copies, we
tried) making it more difficult for individual member of the public to
obtain a copy and respond even though they are requested to do so.
The first point to come out of this presentation (and an earlier letter
about the plan) is that EERA themselves will no longer endorse their own
plan. The reason for this is the Government is not meeting the financial
commitment required for infrastructure. An EERA press release "deplores
the Government's grossly inadequate funding of transport infrastructure
costs" despite there being "repeated written assurances that
growth will not be imposed without the associated infrastructure".
The first bid was for the first 3 years only and was £1.5 Billion
but the Government will only commit to a quarter of this with Essex, so
far, getting nothing. EERA's view is that without the proper commitment
to infrastructure the plan will fail but when we asked what were the implications
if EERA failed to support the plan into the "Examination in Public"
and beyond there were vague mentions of getting the Government to see
sense and put up the funding. But it was also said "EERA had no intention
of carrying out Megaphone Diplomacy with the Government". It will
then surely become the Government's (top down plan) with inadequate funding
for the necessary infrastructure.
The good news for Theydon Bois is (but note first paragraph) that large
amounts of the proposed housing to be located to the south of Harlow is
now to be located to the North, but 2,700 are still to be built to the
South & West of Harlow and as there is now no provision for infrastructure
here and few roads in this Green Belt area at present (as well as a strong
and well funded protest group) we fear there is a possibility that this
block of housing could be relocated to Debden (note the Harlow Options
Study).
Development is still supposed to be "Sustainable" and built
upon Jobs in the area. Thankfully EERA has come out against a second runway
at Stansted but still bases its plan on the creation of 421,000 jobs in
the plan area. Most views are that this is very optimistic (it's 12.5%
of suggested national job growth targets). Harlow alone has lost 20,000
jobs over the last few years and the while the plan specifies 20,700 homes
in Harlow and 11,000 in Epping Forest it is very non specific about job
numbers for these housing areas. Clearly if there are not 'Local Jobs'
this will encourage commuting to London with all the associated problems.
Another main tenet of the plan is the need for "Affordable Housing"
and while in principle this is something most would wish to support, the
detail in the plan as to how this would work is very thin. 30% of the
478,000 homes proposed for building between 2001 and 2021 would have to
be "affordable" to meet the required need and there is already
a backlog of 50,000 affordable homes. Unless there was some form of secured
public ownership of homes to rent it seems unlikely that many of the homes,
even if started at affordable prices, would remain so for long.
Detail for infrastructure needs other than transport is also thin in
the plan. The whole of the Region and Essex especially already imports
a high proportion of its water in the summer. Where will all this extra
water come from? When questioned EERA officials would only say they have
spoken to the utility companies who say they should be able to meet it?
Again the detail on the provision of Health Care is poor. There are at
present no figures for our Sub-area but the Thames Gateway Sub-area is
already short of 21 GP's and the proposed population increase, even with
some extra provision, would increase this to 69.
The notion of sustainability in the plan is based on the proper implementation
of Plan, Monitor, Manage and therefore if the Jobs and Infrastructure
are not forthcoming the housing should not be built, but in practise if
you get the developers to start house building it is very difficult to
turn off the tap.
West Essex Forum Meeting: Essex and Hertfordshire County Councils were
allowed to put their views at the EERA consultation meeting and at this
well attended forum, with many Town and Parish Councils from across Essex
attending, Essex C.C. expanded on its own response to the EERA Plan. This
is well argued with many good points (we distributed the Essex Response
handouts to all committee members present and also passed copies to T.B.
Parish Council who were not represented at the meeting) but still favours
a maximum of 110,400 homes in Essex against 123,000 in the East of England
Plan which is still a very high number. In Epping Forest District they
support 8,000 homes against the 11,000 in the plan. EFD RP increase was
37.5%, more than double any other area apart from Maldon, so 8,000 would
still give this area a relatively bigger increase than other sub-regions.
The plans original proposal was for 18,600 homes in the EFD area.
The Keynotes of EERA's Regional Spatial Strategy Vision are "To
develop a more sustainable, prosperous and out-ward-looking region, while
respecting its diversity, maintaining and enhancing its assets, and sustaining
and improving the quality of life for all people who live and work in
or visit the region". ; Our people, The future, Quality of Life for
All and Quality of the Region. It's hard to accept that our Quality of
Life will be improved if the plan goes ahead in its present form.
There was considerable discussion on this report and members indicated
they would respond to the Essex Questionnaire that was distributed with
the handouts. The committee also saw the need for as many individuals
and organisations as possible to be part of the consultation process.
It was requested that we should make our own Parish Council fully aware
of the Consultation and the need to respond. We need to get as many individual
responses from villagers as possible to the plan and therefore need to
make sure that the consultation and its closing date on 16th March 2005
is well publicised around the village. We are aware that the next issue
of Village News will be past the closing date so PN & JW will talk
to the Parish Council about possible posters and leaflets in shops. JW
will ensure an article with relevant links goes on the Village Web Site.
HM will try to get a piece in the next St. Mary's Newsletter and JW will
circulate a Press release from the Society. PN & JW will prepare the
Society's response to the plan and other committee members were encouraged
to get copies of the plan and give their inputs.
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Links:
www.eera.gov.uk Home
Page
www.eera.gov.uk/ Download page for East of
England Plan in total or by individual chapter headings.
www.eera.gov.uk/ Sustainabilty Study Page
& Technical Appraisal.
www.essexcc.gov.uk Home Page
www.essexcc.gov.uk Essex East of England Plan Guide.
www.planninghelp.org.uk CPRE's planning response help.
www.cpressex.freeuk.com CPREssex's Home Page. Up
dates on responses to the plan.
Useful Addresses for Help &
Responses:
Panel Secretary c/o EERA (RSS)
Flempton House
Flempton
Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 6EG
Tel: 01284729443
www.eera.gov.uk
E-Mail: planning@eera.gov.uk
The
Plan Download Page at EERA
Closing Date for East of England Plan Response: 5pm 16th March 2005.
Patrick Amos
Planning Service Group
Essex County Council
County Hall
Chelmsford, CM1 1QH
Tel: 01245 437557
www.essexcc.gov.uk
E-Mail: Patrick.amos@essxcc.gov.uk
There are good summaries and info about statistics on the Essex CC
site.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE)
Tel: 020 7981 2800
www.cpre.org.uk
E-Mail: info@cpre.org.uk
www.planninghelp.org.uk
Good information about the new Planning Laws and up dates about the
EERA Plan.
CPREssex
www.cpressex.freeuk.com
E-Mail: cpressex@freeuk.com
Info on the Plans implications for Essex.
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