Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 5846
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: Environment Agency
We have no specific recommendations for the best location but would consider that the Dunton Garden Suburb Strategic Allocation offers possible sustainable benefits of extending an existing urban area on the east side of Basildon.
On this point we would mention that major planned developments such as new settlements and urban extensions provide an opportunity to design-in the greenest of technologies and infrastructure from scratch, in ways that are not possible in smaller infill schemes1. With this mind, we consider that the proposed scale of development would lend itself well to the use of technologies and construction methods that underpin the principles of high quality sustainable development. Such development should aim to be, in our view, designed along the lines of Eco-town standards and Garden Suburb attributes envisaged by the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA). The creation of a high quality sustainable development would provide an excellent opportunity to uphold the development as an exemplary to the planning world.
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