Basildon Council submits plans for 48 social-rent flats in Craylands as its housing waiting list tops 3,800

Basildon Council has submitted plans for 48 social-rent flats, 18 one-bedroom and 30 two-bedroom, off Churchill Avenue in Craylands. More than 3,800 people are on the borough's waiting list, and the council can show only 1.96 years of housing land supply, short of what national planning policy expects, which makes other housing schemes harder to refuse. For buyers and sellers in Basildon, that points to more new-build competition. This is an application, not yet an approval.