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Consultation on the Essex Coast RAMS SPD commenced on 10 January 2020 for 6 weeks. Please send us any comments you have by 5pm on 21 February 2020.

This is your opportunity to have a say on the Essex Coast RAMS SPD.

As the Essex Coast RAMS SPD will be adopted by each local authority, each local authority is consulting individually. This means that you may have received a number of items of correspondence similar to this from two or more local authorities, for this we apologise. However, you only need to respond once and not to each local authority.

The details of anyone who makes a representation on this SPD will be held on a database maintained by Place Services and shared between the 12 Essex Authorities (Basildon Borough Council, Braintree District Council, Brentwood Borough Council, Castle Point District Council, Chelmsford City Council, Colchester Borough Council, Maldon District Council, Rochford Borough Council, Southend-on-Sea Borough Council, Tendring District Council, Thurrock Council and Uttlesford District Council) and Essex County Council. This database will be used for the sole purposes of matters relating only to the Essex Coast RAMS SPD. No personal respondent data will be shared with council partners, only respondent name, organisation (if relevant) and comments.

The names of any member of the public making a representation to this SPD will be published alongside their representation as these are required to be made a matter of public record. All other personal details will be redacted.

Please make any comments you have on the Essex Coast Recreational disturbance Avoidance and Mitigation Strategy SPD to the following link and not to the individual named on this correspondence, by 5pm on 21 February 2020.

Consultation Unavailable - Essex County Council - Citizen Space

Alternatively, please email or post your representation to: ecology.placeservices@essex.gov.uk

Place Services,
Essex County Council
County Hall
Chelmsford
Essex
CM1 1QH

If you have any queries about the consultation, please contact Place Services via the email address above or by phoning 03330 322130.

Any comments may be accompanied by a request to be notified at a specified address of the adoption of the SPD
 
'Essex coast recreational disturbance avoidance and mitigation strategy (RAMS) Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)'

Basically, its a means of collecting money from new residential developments in Essex to fund measures to accommodate the additional recreational pressures arising from the residents of those developments. Typically these will include, e.g. new parks, planting and open spaces; way marking of paths and interpretation boards to encourage recreation in less environmentally sensitive places and steer it away from the most sensitive areas; wardening of the most sensitive areas.

Shocking, huh?

Details, documents and means of commenting before it is finalised here - The Essex Coast RAMS Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) - Essex County Council - Citizen Space
 
Apart from the basically crap argument that only people in Essex use the waters round the coast.

Indeed the mysterious Sailorman lives in Cambridgeshire. Boat in Foxes.
I used to live in Bedford and drive to Ransgate

It’s a socialist tax on land owners based on the old socialist idea of greed and envy being presented as good... But who is it good for? a handful of bird watchers? The vast majority of the population are not bird twitchers.
 
LittleSister said:
'Essex coast recreational disturbance avoidance and mitigation strategy (RAMS) Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)'

Basically, its a means of collecting money from new residential developments in Essex to fund measures to accommodate the additional recreational pressures arising from the residents of those developments. Typically these will include, e.g. new parks, planting and open spaces; way marking of paths and interpretation boards to encourage recreation in less environmentally sensitive places and steer it away from the most sensitive areas; wardening of the most sensitive areas.

Shocking, huh?

Details, documents and means of commenting before it is finalised here - The Essex Coast RAMS Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) - Essex County Council - Citizen Space
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Nonesense. If you made new householders pay the full costs of their share of the existing infrastructure they benefit from and on which they place a burden then the costs would be as much as their house value again. Maybe it would seem fair if they gave a refund to all families moving out, or to the estates of those dying. These taxes are so illogical they are comical. It's a stealthy tax. A lie, Admit it, it's an artifical pretext to justify nicking money from the nasty landowners the commies despise.
 
The builder is forced to pay extra money to the loclal council in order to get planning permission.If they don't "volunteer" to pay, they are refused planning permission.As such it is a stealth tax.

But the developer can’t afford to pay all that cash and still make a profit. So they have to reduce the price they pay for their raw material... land. I know this as my development opportunity is being made unviable by these taxes.
 
Tomahawk said:
The builder is forced to pay extra money to the loclal council in order to get planning permission.If they don't "volunteer" to pay, they are refused planning permission.As such it is a stealth tax.

But the developer can’t afford to pay all that cash and still make a profit. So they have to reduce the price they pay for their raw material... land. I know this as my development opportunity is being made unviable by these taxes.
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Viability is a reason for getting the taxes waived. Have you spoken to a planning viability consultant? Most councils will haggle. Better a little cash than none. It can take two or three years for them to test your limits. A horrid job.
 
After paying for an account to try and show the taxes are too high I have to pay to speak with a jobsworth at the council. They want best part of a grand for a 1 hour discussion. Then the whole thing has to go through process and will cost upwards of £200k by the time it gets PP.... if it does?
Why should I be forced to pay all that money?

No far better to cover another field than build homes next to a railway station with a journey time less than an hou r breakfast table to desk in London .

This is yet another attempt to put someones hand in my wallet.
 
Tomahawk said:
The builder is forced to pay extra money to the loclal council in order to get planning permission.If they don't "volunteer" to pay, they are refused planning permission.As such it is a stealth tax.

But the developer can’t afford to pay all that cash and still make a profit. So they have to reduce the price they pay for their raw material... land. I know this as my development opportunity is being made unviable by these taxes.
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Hmmm... so... the developer builds 250 houses (say), and has "promised" to include certain features (e.g. new doctor's surgery, improvements to local school, etc) and doesn't... The existing school/doctor facilities are at capacity so worsening the situation for everyone...

This isn't "theoretical" it's the Rowhedge Quay development
 
The people who move into the new homes pay council tax. They also pay income tax, (apart from the 30 % who live on benefits ).

On top of that there are some 8000 young adults living with mum and dad in Colchester district (source ONS) who are already using the doctors and the rest of the over crowded infrastructure. By moving into decent homes from their parents they don't add to demands on the system. But this stealth tax is being used to finance facilities that are used by the entire community.
 
That's your view.
Income tax doesn't come to the local community, council tax is primarily to the county council and the Police Authority. My point is that developers aren't providing the facilities that were promised in the planning application which was approved.
 
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