How will Stratford’s infrastructure support 6,000 new homes?
Stratford’s existing infrastructure will not be made to cope with the new homes. The proposals include a comprehensive package of improvements to the local infrastructure network to cater for new residents and improve services for existing residents in the area. This will include the provision of new schools, both primary and secondary, which will benefit the existing communities around the site as well as new residents, many of whom are forced to send their children considerable distances for secondary school education. New health care facilities will be provided including doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries again cutting the distances that existing communities need to travel to access services. St Modwen and The Bird Group are committed to delivering sufficient community infrastructure and services for the new community at the very first phase of development so that there will be no reliance, no matter how short that period may have been, on existing services. We believe that providing