Eldon Way and Foundry Industrial Estates form a significant part of the ongoing Hockley Area Action Plan (HAAP) consultation but the Core Strategy proposals pre-empt the next stage of the HAAP consultation.

Neither the Core Strategy nor HAAP define its status relevant to the other plan and subsequent priorities. Why is there no cross-referencing between concurrent plans affecting the exact same piece of land?

There are also inconsistencies between the Core Strategy & HAAP regarding the description of proposed uses for the two industrial estates. The Core Strategy refers to Leisure, Commercial and Residential whilst HAAP mentions a "village green, introducing a significant area of public open space". There is not sufficient space for both and the Core Strategy is again pre-empting the ongoing HAAP.

If a decision is taken now, as part of the Core Strategy, to relocate all the existing businesses on the two estates, it will set a legal precedent which HAAP will need to follow and renders the next stage of HAAP virtually redundant. Particularly given the 95% rejection rate of respondents to the previous round of HAAP such an approach is entirely undemocratic and unsound.