Session to start on Place Plan for Jaywick Sands

A ultimate draft Place Plan for Jaywick Sands will exit for session later this month after it was backed by senior councillors.

Tendring District Council’s (TDC) Cupboard authorized the doc exit for additional session at its assembly on Friday (10 November).

The Place Plan is a long-term technique for Jaywick Sands, and features a combination of prompt ‘fast win’ actions to enhance the realm in addition to a wider imaginative and prescient spanning 20 years.

Andy Baker, TDC Cupboard Member for Planning and Housing, stated he was eager to listen to individuals’s views on the ultimate model of the plan, earlier than it was adopted.

“This can be a imaginative and prescient and ambition for what Jaywick Sands might be sooner or later,” Councillor Baker stated.

“We now have already seen some unbelievable work happen in the neighborhood: new council houses, the Sunspot improvement, and the Wholesome Houses workforce working to enhance the usual of housing regionally. This Place Plan will construct upon that, notably the short wins – demonstrating this plan, as soon as authorized, won’t simply sit on a shelf.

“We now have made modifications to the unique model based mostly on the earlier session, with some actually constructive engagement with the local people, and I might encourage individuals to once more have their say on this subsequent spherical of session.”

Fast wins included within the draft Place Plan embrace making Brooklands one-way to visitors, enhancements to parks and gardens, higher seaside entry, and improved footpaths bus stops and alleys.

Longer-term strategic goals embrace securing funding for improved flood defences which each defend the neighborhood with out blocking entry and sight of the seaside – one in every of Jaywick Sands greatest belongings.

The price of finishing the entire actions is estimated at £120million, over two-decades, and the plan units out the place it will require exterior funding. Of this whole, £84million (70%) is the estimated price ticket of the popular flood defence choice.

Cllr Baker added: “Having a fully-costed plan means we could be real looking about what is required – externally – to ship it, and exhibits we’re critical about reaching it.”

The preliminary model of the Place Plan went out for session in Autumn 2022. Since then work has been ongoing to contemplate the feedback made, and think about up to date info from companions, and TDC’s Planning Coverage and Native Plan Committee thought-about the revised model at a gathering final month.

The subsequent public session will start on 20 November, with a web based survey and in-person exhibition occasions being held round Jaywick Sands. It should run till the New Yr.