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Colchester Borough Council, Tendring District Council, and Braintree District Council have been working in partnership with Essex County Council to achieve this through proposals for three garden communities in North Essex. In order to support the proposals, the four...

Housing Minister, Rt Hon Esther Mcvey, has announced a total of £6 million of funding to help progress plans for garden towns and villages across the UK. In total, plans across the UK will help deliver up to 200,000 new homes. The North Essex Garden Communities...

Throughout October and November NEGC Ltd has been running a series of workshops and exhibitions, encouraging a genuine dialogue with the public about Garden Communities. We are now giving people an opportunity to feedback online during December.    Under the...

NEGC Ltd today announce that it will carry out a programme of public engagement starting in late October; a genuine dialogue with the public about Garden Communities. Under the title, “Shaping Communities for Future Generations”, the aim is to begin a genuine dialogue...

Richard Bayley, Managing Director of NEGC Ltd, explains why talking to residents is a high priority: “We want to make sure that the Garden Communities project works for current and future generations in North Essex. One important aspect is getting infrastructure like...

North Essex Garden Communities Ltd (NEGC Ltd) has announced it will carry out an extensive programme of public engagement work later this year to raise the awareness and understanding of the garden community proposals. NEGC Ltd, which is wholly owned by and working on...

A £100million funding announcement by the Government for North Essex has been welcomed by the councils behind the bid. Essex County Council, supported by Colchester, Tendring and Braintree councils, applied to the Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) for cash to support...

Cllr David King, Colchester Council Cabinet Member for Business and Resources, has been selected by the Council to join the Board of North Essex Garden Communities Ltd (NEGC). Cllr King replaces Cllr Tim Young as the nominated Director for Colchester Borough Council....

North Essex Garden Communities (NEGC) is to receive £1million of Government funding, it has been announced. The company, a collaboration between Braintree District, Tendring District, Colchester Borough and Essex County Councils to develop new purpose-built...

Revisions to the Braintree, Colchester and Tendring Councils’ Garden Community proposals are expected to go before the Government’s Planning Inspector in the autumn of 2019, it has been announced. In September the three councils, working in partnership with Essex...