Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 7154
Received: 17/02/2015
Respondent: Mrs Nicola McNicol
Education infrastructure in the A127 corridor is already woefully inadequate. Secondary school age children from West Horndon and Langdon Hills are almost exclusively bussed to other towns because there is no adequate provision for secondary schools there. At least one new large secondary school is needed in the West of Basildon to support the local population. If the Dunton Garden Suburb is built there will be enough demand for a second new secondary school. Yet the draft local plan for Basildon makes no provision for such secondary schools. Since a secondary school can require about 10 hectares of land these schools would need to be planned along with new developments and cannot be left to be built later.
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