Ticking Clock: Rochford’s Local Plan Risks the Same Fate as Stockport
Rochford District Council’s Local Development Scheme (LDS) has once again been reset. The new timetable pushes key stages of the Local Plan...
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Another Conservative Local Plan – Same Old Failures?
Residents have every reason to be sceptical about the Conservatives’ shiny new Local Plan. We’ve been here before. The last time they...
Read the update →Rochford Districts Speculative Planning Proposals Mapped!
I’ve mapped all the speculative planning proposals across the District that we publicly know about – there are more, but the Council...
Read the update →Meeting with Lidl: Speaking Up for Local Concerns
Earlier this year along with Cllr Cripps and RDC planning officers, I met with representatives from Lidl to discuss their proposed new...
Read the update →Why No Parish Council in Rochford Has Produced a Neighbourhood Plan – And How They Could Still Protect Local Areas from Development
Neighbourhood Plans are meant to give communities a greater say over development in their area. Since being introduced by the Localism Act...
Read the update →How Conservative Policies Broke the Planning System – and Threaten Our Green Belt
Over the past decade, Conservative governments have made repeated changes to the national planning system. These policies have created a broken, unbalanced...
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