Comment
Strategic Growth Options
Representation ID: 12688
Received: 24/04/2015
Respondent: Barwood Land and Estates Ltd
Agent: Chilmark Consulting Limited
The SGO sets out the approach for employment site options, identifying the need for up additional employment land. This need requires a balanced approach to the consideration of employment site locations and options. This analysis is complex and nuanced and should consider a wider set of criteria than identifying locations close to the strategic highway network. (Refer to Paragraph 016, NPPF). In practice employment sites should be in proximity to established and future working population and accessible by a range of transport.Indeed, such an approach would underplay the economic potential of Crossrail that will significantly enhance the accessibility of Brentwood town and Shenfield to centres of employment outside the Borough in a wider functional economic market area and also enhance the opportunities for business to attract a skilled labour force from within the Borough and from elsewhere.
See attached questionnaire.