Canvey Islanders, this time next week our Fate will have been decided!
A meeting to consider the CPBC Local Plan 2018 with sites identified for 4,000* new dwellings, and the release of vast tracts of Green Belt and green field sites will have been held and a decision made!
Benfleet Residents will be mobilised to attend the meeting on the 28th November to influence their councillors.
Canvey Island Residents should be prepared to do the same!
Details of the meeting are below.
Cllr Smith and the Chief Executive of CPBC will be giving the Green Light to developers in areas such as the Dutch Village cornfields, the Triangle, the Paddocks, Thorney Bay and Jotmans farm!
This decision will have a fundamental affect on our daily lives if allowed to happen!
Whether your current concerns are the daily Traffic Congestion, the removal of the Rapid Response Vehicle, the NHS “reorganisation” in our area, access to Doctors, Schools, the loss of Green Fields, Flooding of our Homes, be certain that if our Councillors vote to Approve the Local Plan as it stands, these issues will intensify!
We must Urge our Councillors to actively Vote Against this Local Plan, even if Intervention is the only option.
As it was explained in the previous POST the threat of Intervention may not be quite as bad as portrayed by cllr smith and ceo marchant. Certainly the removal of local input, was exaggerated.
Back in June Castle Point councillors were threatened by the effects of Intervention and the benefits of CPBC retaining control of the Local Plan;
By the cpbc ceo: with intervention “Council with no say over Plan making locally, and no influence over the outcome”
By Cllr smith said: “keeping the plan making process in members control is of paramount importance for cllrs and residents to keep control of the shaping of our future Borough.” “Green Belt assessment a set process and promised member involvement in that process.
“By cllr Stanley: “give confidence to the gov minister that he can leave the job safely in our hands.”
I wonder how worse it could have been?
We must Urge our Councillors to actively Vote Against this Local Plan, even if Intervention is the only option.
Part of the Local Plan is to consider Constraints against development. Across the Borough Green Belt is a major Policy Constraint against development.
On Canvey Island, in particular, a second major Constraint is Flood Risk. CPBC have consistently used Flood Risk as a Constraint against development Housing Numbers across the Borough.
Where Flood Risk actually threatens, on Canvey Island, the Constraint is Not applied to development. In effect the Borough Housing Supply Numbers are reduced, but not on Canvey Island specifically.
We must Urge our Councillors to actively Vote Against this Local Plan, even if Intervention is the only option.
The population of Castle Point increased over the previous Census Period 2001 -2011 by just 1.6%.
However, the distribution of this increase is interesting, Canvey Island, where Flood Risk is an Actual Threat, was 2.6% up, whilst the Mainland saw just a 0.8% increase!
We covered this in more detail HERE.
We must Urge our Councillors to actively Vote Against this Local Plan, even if Intervention is the only option.
With the development of Jotmans Farm, of 900 dwellings, comes a Link Road, wait for it, ONTO CANVEY WAY !
The intention is to form a junction from west Benfleet to meet Canvey Way halfway along.
Canvey Island Commuters will only have to envisage the effects of traffic having priority from the right at junctions to imagine how this will effect the Island!
It is clear this Local Plan 2018 is a Bad Plan.
We must Urge our Councillors to actively Vote Against this Local Plan, even if Intervention is the only option.
At least the possibility of a Neutral view on development distribution may be applied, rather than this biased version!
A list of our CPBC councillors contact details can be found HERE.
The Local Plan meeting to decide where and when development across Canvey Island will take place Wednesday 28th November start 7.30pm at Council Chamber, Kiln Road, Thundersley, Benfleet, Essex, SS7 1TF.
*mainland residents group claim.