Housing

The South Essex Thames Gateway sub-region is crucial to the UK economy, has a rising population, and exhibits all the issues that are central to strategic housing policy.

Our Vision : "To deliver quality housing that contributes to sustainable communities and a balanced housing market."

Our Priorities

• Maximise Thames Gateway's number of key employment and residential sites to present an opportunity to create exemplar mixed communities.

• Ensure transport and social infrastructure is planned and focussed to open up new development sites to deliver housing growth.

• Maximise the housing development potential of the Thames riverfront, whilst enhancing its recreational use and protecting its bio-diversity.

• Encourage inward migration of skilled worker and enhance the skills of the wider workforce, ensuring that housing growth meets their diverse needs

• Ensure Thames Gateway planned population growth benefits all residents not just newcomers by for example developing the local skills base to maximise take up of new jobs

• Ensure programmes are in place to improve Community Safety and guarantee good housing management for the gateway's housing stock both public and private

• Ensure that addressing health inequalities is mainstreamed in the planning of infrastructure and through a design code for future developments

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