Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community Development Plan Document (DPD)

Include reference to all the emergency services in the text of Part B, paragraph 7 of the policy referable to the South and North Neighbourhoods;

Amended Policy Excerpt to read:
“The councils will work with the University of Essex and other partners as appropriate, to deliver the key infrastructure (health, education, ambulance, police, firefighting and other community uses)”

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph to read:
“This chapter contains the Council’s expectations and policy ensuring the Garden Community is served by community services and facilities of the right type in the right location, including schools and sports facilities; as well as access to health, ambulance, police and firefighting services and how the development will incorporate measures to encourage including, healthy and happy lifestyles.”

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Change Requested: Include reference to all the emergency services in the text of the policy under a new Part F following on after Part E: Health;

Amended Policy Excerpt to read:
“Part F: Emergency Services
The Garden Community will promote community safety and cohesion by providing for an appropriate level of ambulance, police and firefighting facilities to serve the needs of each neighbourhood and its residents, with the phasing of facilities to be set out in the Infrastructure Delivery, Phasing & Funding Plan.
Developers should enter into early discussions with the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST), Essex Police and Essex Fire & Rescue to identify the physical and social infrastructure and facilities funding required, along with a strategy for phased implementation.”

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph to read (from line 3)
“ . . . The Garden Community is an opportunity to explore, with service providers, new ways to provide and deliver the education, health, ambulance, police, firefighting and other community and social infrastructure and facilities needed to support the new community, and the Councils have worked with service providers throughout the production of the Plan.”

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph to read:
“Community and social infrastructure covers a wide range of facilities, such as health; ambulance; police; firefighting; education; sports; recreation and greenspace; places of worship; community halls; public houses and cultural infrastructure . . “

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph & 5th bullet point below it to read:
Paragraph change - “The main requirements covered in this Plan, as set out in the policies of the adopted Section 1 Local Plan, and based on the evidence of key infrastructure providers include:
5th bullet point change;
• “Addressing education, healthcare, ambulance, police, firefighting, leisure and sports”

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph to read:
“The Garden community will require the provision of new physical infrastructure such as footways, cycleways, roads, and sewers; social infrastructure such as health, ambulance, police, firefighting, education and community facilities, and green infrastructure such as open and recreational spaces.”

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Change Requested: Amended Paragraph to read:
“The councils will seek contributions from developers to fund improvements to existing infrastructure and the environment and new infrastructure contributions will be made through the Community Infrastructure Levy (if adopted) which applies a standard charge to developers to fund supporting infrastructure such as transport, schools, community facilities and health, ambulance, police and firefighting facilities, and/or Section 106 agreements which address the provision of affordable housing and more site-specific infrastructure requirements.”
The Garden community will require the provision of new physical infrastructure such as footways, cycleways, roads, and sewers; social infrastructure such as health, ambulance, police, firefighting, education and community facilities, and green infrastructure such as open and recreational spaces.”

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Change Requested: Amended bullet point 4 to read:
• “Provision of healthcare, ambulance, police, firefighting, leisure, social and community facilities accessible by all modes of transport.”

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After bullet point 22 add a new bullet point 23 to read:
• “Strategy for addressing the requirement for ambulance, police, & firefighting infrastructure & facilities”

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