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Section 13 Sub-Areas and Key Centres for Development and Change
13.22 Successful regeneration and further growth on the scale planned will require substantial improvements to the transport
network. Related sub-regional strategies, Development Plan Documents and Local Transport Plans serving Essex
Thames Gateway should address these needs.
POLICY ETG7: Implementation and Delivery
The Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership should work with its partners to ensure:
• appropriate guidance and coordination is available to ensure Local Development Documents contribute to
meeting the objectives of the RSS, with joint working where appropriate;
• implementation and delivery bodies have appropriate strategies and resources to achieve the objectives in the
overall vision for the area in ETG1 and the other Essex Thames Gateway policies; and
• implementation and delivery bodies work closely with local plan making authorities to ensure that the non
statutory Essex Thames Gateway policies and plans are supported by and are supportive of Local Development
Documents.
13.23 The Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership has been established to develop co-operative working between partners
and to ensure effective coordination of actions to deliver holistic, integrated regeneration and growth. The partnership
draws together the local authorities, East of England Development Agency, other agencies and the voluntary and private
sectors to maintain a strategic overview, oversee Essex Thames Gateway wide implementation challenges and ensure
that commitment is obtained from other agencies to achieve delivery.
13.24 A range of local delivery vehicles have been established. An Urban Development Corporation has been formed covering
all of the borough of Thurrock with responsibility for major physical redevelopment, including land acquisition and planning
powers. Other local delivery vehicles are the Urban Regeneration Company, Southend Renaissance and the Basildon
Renaissance Partnership. For Castle Point and Rochford the local authorities and Thames Gateway South Essex
Partnership have formed a steering group with other partners to provide a focus for delivery.
13.25 Essex Thames Gateway is a complex area where many partners are contributing to regeneration and growth. There is a
need for connectivity and complementarity between statutory development plan making and related non statutory plans,
for example those addressing health planning, green infrastructure and flood defence, along with the regeneration
frameworks and master planning exercises undertaken by local delivery vehicles. A delivery plan covering the whole of
Thames Gateway was published in 2007, which reflects the commitment to back the vision for the Gateway with cross-
Government priorities and funding. It provides a framework for making the best use of public investment, local ownership,
big project expertise and private sector entrepreneurship, sets out shorter term spending plans and identifies the
resources needed.
13.26 Waste management, including hazardous waste, is a major issue. There are limits to how far the area can continue to
provide landfill capacity for the wider London / Essex area, whilst the scale of redevelopment on previously developed land
requiring decontamination represents a particular challenge for waste management planning. The Thames Gateway
South Essex Partnership and delivery agencies will need to work with the Environment Agency and waste planning
partners to ensure that the significant volumes of waste predicted to arise in the course of development are managed
effectively. Policy WM7 addresses this issue as part of a hazardous waste strategy to be developed in the further review
of RSS.