Jackson Ng at Growth, Infrastructure & Housing Select Committee, 23 September 2026

Local Plan for Buckinghamshire (part 1 of 3)

· Growth, Infrastructure & Housing Select Committee, Buckinghamshire Council · 1:04

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Infrastructure for this plan was put at more than £6 billion with a clear funding gap. I think I raised this question in the last committee, the same committee, and we were told there was no extra central government funding and that developers and providers will provide most of the cost. However, there is a real infrastructure issue. I appreciate that we do need to build. The national government wants us to build. However, my understanding is Regulation 19 is the public's chance to test whether the gap is real. And I'm not asking whether the studies have been done or previous studies have been done. We dealt with that in the last meeting. But what I want to know is, since this has gone to the public, has there been any new, timed, funded commitment, whether it's water, sewage, highways, schools or health across the county that wasn't in the July evidence that's now been committed? Or is the funding gap still as substantial as it was when we last met? Thank you. I think the short answer to that is that no, there has not been any additional thing from...

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