Comment
Draft Local Plan
Representation ID: 15923
Received: 12/05/2016
Respondent: West Horndon Parish Council
SO11 states that BBC will "protect and nurture existing leisure, cultural and recreational assets such as the Borough's Country Parks for residents and visitors to the Borough and promote and enhance social inclusion, health and wellbeing". Thorndon Country Park is mentioned extensively throughout the Draft Local Plan as both a leisure and environmental area that it wishes to protect and enhance. WHPC share this view. Should development east of the A128 take place, be it in the form of the proposed Dunton Hills Garden Village, or an alternative development, WHPC recommend that an environmental buffer is created between the A128, any new development, reaching up to Thorndon Country Park. This would have the dual benefit of i) preventing urban sprawl which would be inevitable should no buffer be created given proximity of West Horndon to the A128, and ii) improving an existing leisure and environmental resource.
See eight attached documents