Basildon

So the authority that's considering delaying or withdrawing its emerging plan, which is it and what's the background?

It's Basildon Borough Council in Essex, which last adopted a local plan more than 30 years ago.

In July, the planning minister, Matthew Pennycook, ordered the authority to consult on its Regulation 19 draft strategy and submit the document by the end of the year in line with government submission deadline for plans being prepared under the so-called legacy planmaking system.

And that's the current planmaking system, which is due to be replaced at the beginning of next year.

That's right.

Basildon consulted on its draft plan between August and September in line with Pennycook's direction, but it voted last month to consider taking high court legal action over the minister's intervention, arguing that the move was premature and unnecessary.

And the council's cabinet considered confidential professional legal advice from the planning barrister Gregory Jones Casey of FTB Chambers at a meeting on the 15th of October.

And how did the cabinet choose to proceed?

Imagine if you're like...

You've done like 30 years as a medical professional and you grew up in the Basildon area.

Yeah.

And all of a sudden you get a little test tube.

on.

And I looked at it and I was like, you might need a stitch in that.

And we got to Basildon Hospital.

I love that diagnosis.

quite the weapons cachet to have in one house.

I mean, I grew up on a council estate in Basildon and I'm like, son, you need to spread those weapons out across several

houses.

Yeah.

12.14 is the time.

Wayne's in Basildon.

Wayne, I thought you were working in the garden centre today.

I am, mate.

he? It's a bit

entitled.

He sounded a bit entitled, like, just because he's Wayne in Basildon, he should have got an answer.

I'd

No.

There's a guy in Pitsy, which is Basildon way, something like that, in Essex, you

know,

been arrested.