East of England Plan [Regional Spatial Strategy]
What is it?
This RSS report is some 305 pages in total, covering the whole of the Eastern Region. For full report refer to: East of England Plan or, website eera.gov.uk
Following are extracts from the full report of the East of England Plan: Stansted/M11 sub-region, where North Weald is mentioned on numerous occasions; therefore being site specific in their Plan.
We draw your attention to just some of the extracts taken from this lengthy report:
- Policy ST1: spatial strategy taken from page 85/86
- Policy ST2: spatial strategy taken from page 87
- Policy ST6: spatial strategy taken from page 92/93
Map of proposed development area effecting North Weald Bassett and the surrounding areas.
Click on the following link to find out, What happens after the Public Consultation period?
To deliver the Stansted/M11 strategy, local development documents and realted strategies will provide for:
restraint on development, except for provision for identified local needs or strategic transport improvements, in the following rural areas:
- Uttlesford district north of Stanstead Airport
- east of the M11, with the exception of strategic growth as North Weald
- north of the Stort Valley, with the exception of the area north of Harlow required for strategic growth, and west of the M11
- a strategic green wedge to be defined west of Harlow
Policy ST2: employment generation and economic regeneration
Provision will be made in local development documents to accomodate up to 40,000 net additional jobs in the sub-region by 2021.
Local development documents will provide for at least two new strategic employment sites, one north of Harlow and another, of 25 hectares, in the North Weald area, phased over the period 2001-2011.
Subject to the outcome of further transport studies, the sub-regional transport priorities are:
- an outer bypass to the north of the existing urban area of Harlow from the A414 to the M11 to accomodate east-west through traffic on the A414 route and with appropriate links to provide improved access to strategic growth locations, and improve external access into the existing built-up area of Harlow, the town centre, and main employment areas. This will require a new junction on the M11
- provision of park and ride facilities at North Weald and Harlow Town Station to provide for high quality passenger transport access to Harlow town centre and Stanstead Airport
- provision of a high quality transport link between Epping, North Weald, Harlow and Stanstead Airport, with related route options for serving Sawbridgeworth and Bishop's Stortford
- a study of longer term public transport access improvements between London, North Weald and Harlow
- improvements to junctions 7 and 8 of the M11 motorway
The Examination in Public. [EiP]
The East of England Plan will be subject to a further review in an Examination in Public (EIP). It is anticipated that this will start in mid September 2005. Attendance and involvement in this is by invitation only and so the NWB Parish Council is concentrating on ways of ensuring that we are at the EIP to represent your interests.
The timetable of process is;
- 8 December 2004 – publication of RSS draft and start of public consultation period 16 March 2005 – deadline for consultation response
- 13 September 2005 – Examination in Public [EiP] starts Early 2006 – Publication of Panel Report
- Mid 2006 – Secretary of State publishes proposed changes to draft RSS followed by 8 week consultation
After this the final report is compiled and in our case it is likely that Epping Forest District Council will have the task of implementing the Plan. Remember that they are the Landlords of one third of this development i.e. The Airfield.
The District Council have agreed not to develop the Airfield and surrounding Greenbelt with 6,000 house plus. However they are yet to debate what part the Airfield should play in the future and how best this facility should be used.