Object
Schedule of Potential Main Modifications
Representation ID: 29548
Received: 04/11/2021
Respondent: Essex County Council
Legally compliant? Yes
Sound? No
4. Not consistent with National Policy
Paragraph 73 c of the NPPF requires that strategic policy-making authorities should ensure that larger scale development provides “sufficient access to services and employment opportunities within the development itself (without expecting an unrealistic level of self-containment), or in larger towns to which there is good access.
Criterion B. needs to be amended to include criteria to ensure that delivery of employment floorspace in each employment area is tied to occupation of housing, and to include an obligation to provide future-proofed broadband access for all homes and businesses (ideally, Fibre to the Premises).
4. Not consistent with National Policy
Paragraph 73 c of the NPPF requires that strategic policy-making authorities should ensure that larger scale development provides “sufficient access to services and employment opportunities within the development itself (without expecting an unrealistic level of self-containment), or in larger towns to which there is good access.
Criterion B. needs to be amended to include criteria to ensure that delivery of employment floorspace in each employment area is tied to occupation of housing, and to include an obligation to provide future-proofed broadband access for all homes and businesses (ideally, Fibre to the Premises).