Make it illegal to build housing estates without a GP surgery

Housing ● Healthcare National by RachelNotRachael · 🏷️ 1. Concerned Citizen · Fringe · 7 months ago
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New estate of 500 homes went up near us last year. Lovely houses. Absolutely no infrastructure.

No GP surgery. No school places. No bus route. No pharmacy. No park. Five hundred families all trying to register at a practice that was already full.

Any development above 200 homes should be legally required to include:

- Primary healthcare facility, built before the first resident moves in
- Guaranteed school places at a local school or funding for expansion
- A public transport link operational from day one
- Green space meeting Natural England minimum standards
- Electric vehicle charging in every parking space

Not a contribution to a future facility. Actually build it.

RachelNotRachael 🗳️ Ward Councillor Fringe

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Sensible proposal. I'd extend it to environmental infrastructure, new developments at this scale should be required to include green space, sustainable drainage and EV charging as standard. Planning currently treats these as optional extras when they should be non-negotiable. We keep building communities that are car-dependent, flood-prone, and disconnected from nature, then wonder why mental health outcomes there are poor.
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