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Section 1 - Introduction

Everyone’s Essex - our plan for Essex (2021-2025) (Everyone’s Essex), is ECC’s plan for levelling-up the county over the next four years and is based on the themes of Renewal, Ambition and Equality. It sets out 20 commitments, focused around the following four areas, the majority of which are relevant to providing development in the borough:
• the economy – good jobs, infrastructure, future growth and employment, green growth and levelling up the economy;
• the environment – net zero, transport and built environment, minimise waste, green communities and levelling up the environment;
• children and families – education outcomes, family resilience and stability, safety, outcomes for vulnerable children and levelling up outcomes for families; and
• promoting health, care and wellbeing for all ages – healthy lifestyles, promoting independence, place-based working and levelling up health.

Everyone’s Essex sets out a strategic aim for a strong, inclusive and sustainable economy. This strategic aim includes a commitment to deliver and maintain high quality infrastructure to support a growing economy and the delivery of new homes and communities. Achieving this requires us to ensure that the development, planning and infrastructure delivery across the administrative county, is aligned with Local Plans and supporting documents such as the Draft Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule for BBC. This is to ensure that the planned growth includes provision for the delivery of ECC’s infrastructure and services commensurate with the growth being planned, and to support existing and future residents and businesses.