Employment opportunities will be located in the Garden Community in specially designed areas as well as mixed in with residential areas. As and when we agree deals with businesses, this will be communicated.

Planning mixed use areas encourages increased social interaction and reduces the need for people to drive to get to day to day facilities such as schools and shops. Additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic has introduced fundamental shifts to working patterns that can be expected to result in lasting increases to home working and the need for supporting services in nearby centres. The Garden Community model is well-suited to support these new ways of working.

The Garden Community is well located, with the University of Essex nearby as well as international gateways with Stansted Airport and the ports at Harwich and Felixstowe along the A120 corridor.

We will allocate 25 hectares of employment land within the Garden Community and economic assessments have shown the equivalent of one job per new home built in the Garden Community is achievable.