Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 5549
Received: 20/02/2015
Respondent: Essex County Council
Base ECC has specific concerns regarding the lack of available evidence base to inform and shape the Spatial Growth Options report. The report has been published in the absence of supporting evidence contrary to the statements within Paragraphs 1.11 to 1.13 emphasising the NPPF requirements on the importance of positively prepared plans, informed by robust up to date evidence. Any proposed strategy is of particular importance to ECC as it will need to be satisfied that the impact of any planned scale and distribution of growth can be accommodated by ECC areas of responsibility, or identify what additional facilities or mitigation is required to make the strategy sustainable in social, economic and environmental grounds. (See full rep for further details)
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