Homes first. Surgery later.
The order things arrive in when estates are added to villages, with the dates to show it.
If you've lived in a village round here for a while, you'll know the order things arrive in. The homes, then a few years later the school, then later still (if at all) the surgery.
It isn't just a feeling. Across the region, big new estates have been lived in for years before their school opens, and the surgery tends to come last.
Surgeries do worst of all. Of the developer money councils have received for health, about £1 in every £10 has been spent: £1.34m of £13.67m, on the government's own planning data from the councils that publish it. For schools it's about half.
That's not because anyone forgot. It's how developer money works: it arrives after the homes, and each estate only pays for its own share. We explain that in If it isn't spent, it can go back.
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