Updated: 21,000 new homes for Basildon? (From Echo)

Option 4. No new houses until the A127 is made into a motorway, the train lines are upgraded to cope with the extra commuters, and the local water companies are in a position to guarantee the additional supply requirements.

how many new homes have been/are being built in Basildon over the past few years/planned and in development at this time?

Does anybody know the total?

There's been/is building in Cranes Farm Road, Markhams Chase, Leinster Road (James Hornsby's playing field), The site of Laindon High Road School (plus it's extension far beyond the footprint of the old school grounds), Vange 3/4 Estate, Cherrydown (The Morello Quarter), The Icon, The Axis, building on the Five Links Estate, the development on the site of the old swimming Pool in Gloucester Park, development on the former Fryerns School grounds to name a few.


How many does that add up to?


Will they use Trafford House site for housing?

Will there be any green space left in Basildon?

There's a nice little green area on the roundabout at Ashlyns' junction with Pitsea Road - could get a few flats on that too

I don't suppose many of the proposed 21,000 extra houses will be social housing for those that are in need of it but cannot afford to buy a house due to the state of the housing market will they? They'll have a token dozen or so 'afordable' properties dotted about here and there, like recent developments, in order to pay lip service to tackling the problem - if we're lucky.

It'll all be two hundred grand plus houses or flats for a hundred and fifty grand plus, so that the developers can continue to rake in the profits and keep themselves in Aston Martins and solid gold pocket linings while the people who actually need decent housing will have to rent from 'buy to let' Rachmanesque landlords at an inflated rent - a lot of which will, undoubtedly come out of the publc purse in the form of benefit.

This is not the solution!

Also would like to Echo (see what I did there?) Nebs' comments regarding the necessity to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to be able to deal with this proposed extra amount of housing/population.

"21,600 new homes in Basildon..." is that what they're calling travellers' sites these days?

Alice in Her Own Land :P wrote:
"21,600 new homes in Basildon..." is that what they're calling travellers' sites these days?

It might be they have to factor in a % of Traveller accommodation in their total number. Nothing wrong with that is there?
If the council wont allow Travellers to provide their own accommodation then of course they will have to provide it.

In the words of Spike Milligan when he was asked why was he sitting in a fridge "everybody has got to be somewhere"

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do not put more homes in what i call inner Basildon ,if more homes are required build them on the outskirts where there is more land ,but also build the facilitys and services that should go hand in hand with more house building,do not build on the remaining green spaces in inner basildon ,like school playing fields and the like also make sure the build is traditional style brick ,not these concrete or wooden type,look at the cooperation homes in old Fryerns that have stood the test of time and homes in lee chapel south

If this Conservative administration really acted on what residents wanted and actually listened to residents views then they wouldn't still be proposing to develop on 56pct of Kent View Recreation Ground, Vange. Residents of Vange were told children's playing fields had to be sold to fund the shortfall on the Sporting Village as there were no alternatives to build the supposed much needed houses, clearly there is.

They are just going to keep building on all the grass around basildon, wickford, pitsea etc with estates like chafford hundred until basildon is a crime ridden pit like barking

Travellers are against it! Building houses on land that will never be green again, displacing people who wont be able to purchase it and alter slightly for their needs without destroying it forever under concrete and brick. No NO NO we say. Keep land green and growing.

The Cater Wood Creeper wrote:
I don't suppose many of the proposed 21,000 extra houses will be social housing for those that are in need of it but cannot afford to buy a house due to the state of the housing market will they? They'll have a token dozen or so 'afordable' properties dotted about here and there, like recent developments, in order to pay lip service to tackling the problem - if we're lucky. It'll all be two hundred grand plus houses or flats for a hundred and fifty grand plus, so that the developers can continue to rake in the profits and keep themselves in Aston Martins and solid gold pocket linings while the people who actually need decent housing will have to rent from 'buy to let' Rachmanesque landlords at an inflated rent - a lot of which will, undoubtedly come out of the publc purse in the form of benefit. This is not the solution! Also would like to Echo (see what I did there?) Nebs' comments regarding the necessity to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to be able to deal with this proposed extra amount of housing/population.

What a lod of tosh.

Rachmanesque ? Hello...have you seen a calender lately? It aint the 1950's anymore mate.

I'm a landlord and let me tell you the problem these days is dodgy tenants. Keep the property like a pigsty, skip without paying rent etc. Your living in the past.

Second £200K isn't that much money these days. In fact it won't even buy you a 3 bed 1930's semi in Billericay.

BTW come and see my Gold Plated Aston...just looks like a rusty old nissan ...amazing innit!!

EthanEdwards wrote:

The Cater Wood Creeper wrote:
I don't suppose many of the proposed 21,000 extra houses will be social housing for those that are in need of it but cannot afford to buy a house due to the state of the housing market will they? They'll have a token dozen or so 'afordable' properties dotted about here and there, like recent developments, in order to pay lip service to tackling the problem - if we're lucky. It'll all be two hundred grand plus houses or flats for a hundred and fifty grand plus, so that the developers can continue to rake in the profits and keep themselves in Aston Martins and solid gold pocket linings while the people who actually need decent housing will have to rent from 'buy to let' Rachmanesque landlords at an inflated rent - a lot of which will, undoubtedly come out of the publc purse in the form of benefit. This is not the solution! Also would like to Echo (see what I did there?) Nebs' comments regarding the necessity to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is in place to be able to deal with this proposed extra amount of housing/population.

What a lod of tosh.

Rachmanesque ? Hello...have you seen a calender lately? It aint the 1950's anymore mate.

I'm a landlord and let me tell you the problem these days is dodgy tenants. Keep the property like a pigsty, skip without paying rent etc. Your living in the past.

Second £200K isn't that much money these days. In fact it won't even buy you a 3 bed 1930's semi in Billericay.

BTW come and see my Gold Plated Aston...just looks like a rusty old nissan ...amazing innit!!

Interesting very interesting!