Core Strategy Preferred Options document - Amazon Web Services

Strategies, Activities and Actions – Community Infrastructure, Leisure
and Tourism
CLT1 – Alternative Options
Option Why is it not preferred?
Cost all infrastructure on a
District wide basis and
require all developments
anywhere within the
District to make a
contribution to the
District’s overall
infrastructure needs.
To continue to require
planning obligations from
developers, but not to
impose standard charges.
Education
The settlements within the District
are functionally separate and
development within one part will not
have the same impact on
infrastructure in other parts. A
District wide approach would
involve developments in, for
example Rayleigh, having to make
a contribution to infrastructure
required in Rochford. Such an
approach is not considered
reasonable.
This approach would not deliver the
requisite infrastructure, to the
detriment of existing and future
communities.
It is crucial that planning addresses accessibility to education.
Essex County Council is the education authority for Rochford District and
produces an annual plan on how education is to be provided within the
area. The report includes an analysis of supply and demand for school
places within Rochford District which is examined in greater depth within
Evidence Base Summary Document – School Places. In short, recent
data has demonstrated there is no direct correlation between estimated
total population increase and the numbers of pupils in schools (the overall
population increase has been largely due to an increase in the numbers
of elderly people, with the youth population shrinking).
In determining the likely impact on school place supply and demand from
future housing allocations it will be necessary to take a more
sophisticated approach than purely looking at population projections. It
will be more appropriate to look at developments on a case-by-case basis
to determine their likely impact upon school place provision.
Notwithstanding this, the distribution of housing proposed in the Housing
section of the Core Strategy makes it clear that new single-form entry
primary schools will be required in Rayleigh and Rochford as a minimum.
At least 1.1 hectares of land within areas allocated for residential
development will be required for a primary school in Rayleigh and
Rochford. In addition, the existing secondary school in Rochford – King
Edmund School – will be allocated the necessary 3 hectares to allow the
required expansion to meet additional need. Residential development in
Hockley is not considered to generate a requirement for any additional
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Planning obligations
and the community
infrastructure levy
provide a mechanism
to ensure that the
required infrastructure
accompanies new
housing.
Standard charges for
development in the
Rochford District will
be detailed in an
Infrastructure and
Standard Charges
Document.
Capacity figures for
2007 indicate that on a
District wide basis
there are enough
primary school places
for 2008, however
there is a shortfall of
20 pupils for
secondary schools.
78.3% of students in
2005 -2006 attained 5
or more A*-C grades,
which was significantly
above the East of
England average.