When Essex County Council developed South Woodham Ferrers their main priority was to maximise the income from land sales while minimising the amount spent of community facilities and infrastructure.
They set out to attract young families to the town applying the Peter Pan Principle to their planning decisions. To them South Woodham was a "Never-never" land. The children born in the town would never grow up, therefore they would never need jobs and they would never need homes !
But the children are growing up and there is a need for us to make some decisions about our future.
Do we want our children to have the option of staying in the town when they decide to move out of the family home ? Or do we want to banish them to live elsewhere because meeting their needs would "spoil" our town ?
Do we want to try and find (or create) easily accessable, well paid, employment ? Or do we tell them that if they want to stay in our town then they will have to be unemployed because we don't want to see employment provided anywhere near our town ?
Any decisions about our town are complicated by the land position.
Almost all the available land within the town has been built on and the town is surrounded by land that has planning restrictions preventing any development on it.
That simply is a summary of the decisions facing us. Further information and discussion is available on the following pages........
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