My Residents’ Charter

  1. Sustainable Transport and Integrated Connectivity
    Developers would invest in a reliable, subsidised bus network and develop "active travel" routes that make walking and cycling safer and more accessible.

  2. Road Capacity and Strategic Infrastructure Flow
    Ensure that all new developments include necessary road widening, junction improvements, and "relief" infrastructure. Developer should use data-driven modeling to identify bottlenecks and prioritise schemes that increase capacity and reduce journey times.

  3. Excellence in Education and School Places
    Mid Suffolk District Council need to fund sufficient school places as part of the planning consent, ensuring that new housing developments are matched by adequate educational provision using community infrastructure levy (CIL) and Section 106 funding.

  4. High-Quality Early Years and Childcare
    Ensure a sufficient supply of high-quality, flexible childcare and early years places across the county, specifically designed to support young parents in returning to or remaining in the workforce.

  5. Environmental Stewardship and Biodiversity
    To enforce Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) standards on all new developments. Where a developer cannot achieve the required 10% gain on-site, we will mandate that offsetting contributions are reinvested into local nature recovery networks within the county, rather than being spent elsewhere.

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Chris Chambers - County Councillor

Front page of the East Anglian Daily Times newspaper with a headline about alarm bells over new build homes and a photograph of a soccer match. The soccer image shows players on the field, with one player in a blue jersey kicking a ball while others are nearby. There is also a smaller photo of an elderly woman with red hair smiling.

“The governments proposed housing targets will only exacerbate the lack of infrastructure.”

Read my comments in the East Anglian Daily Times on how the government's proposed housing targets will only exacerbate the problem, and why any future housing developments must include adequate infrastructure, such as schools and healthcare services.

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